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As a reminder: We're accepting applications for a ROMchip Editorial Assistant through Sept 30! Info below!

Appreciation where appreciation is due 🥰

📢WE'RE SEEKING AN EDITORIAL ASSISTANT📢 Our success and growth means we need some help with the week-to-week operations of ROMchip! Great gig for someone curious abt academic journals. (this is an unpaid academic service position; PhD preferred) donate.romchip.org/position-openi…

Happy Friday: Here's the video from the chat we hosted between @cgingold and @StupidFunWill last month 🙂 youtube.com/watch?v=cW2NbW…

🔥🎲🔥🎲🔥🎲🔥🎲🔥🎲🔥 Are you interested in tabletop games and intellectual conversation? Register for this year’s Generation Analog!!! It’s free, online, and accessible to everyone in the world!!! Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday!!!! eventbrite.com/e/generation-a…

📢 Happening NOW!! @cgingold and THE Will Wright (@StupidFunWill) will be chatting the new book BUILDING SIMCITY: How to Put the World in a Machine. LIVE on TWITCH twitch.tv/romchipjournal

📢 TODAY ONLY! @cgingold and THE Will Wright (@StupidFunWill) will be chatting the new book BUILDING SIMCITY: How to Put the World in a Machine. LIVE on TWITCH @ 2PM ET. 🎟️RSVP Now! tickettailor.com/events/romchip…

📢 TWO DAYS AWAY!! @cgingold and THE Will Wright (@StupidFunWill) will be chatting the new book BUILDING SIMCITY: How to Put the World in a Machine. LIVE on TWITCH July 19 @ 2PM ET. 🎟️RSVP Now! tickettailor.com/events/romchip…

📢 THIS FRIDAY: @cgingold and THE Will Wright (@StupidFunWill) will be chatting the new book BUILDING SIMCITY: How to Put the World in a Machine. LIVE on TWITCH July 19 @ 2PM ET. 🎟️RSVP Now! tickettailor.com/events/romchip…

Submissions for paid commission are now currently CLOSED. We'll announce here if we open up again! Thank you and we're looking forward to uplifiting new work!

📢 ATTN FREELANCE WRITERS📢 We're currently accepting pitches for a game history long read! Scope is 2.5K-4K piece suitable to ROMchip's Materials section (focus is close reads and object lessons on game history artifacts). Pay is $1000. More info here: donate.romchip.org/new-work.html

@circuitlions @MWKnutson_DH Want more of this? Follow us: YouTube: @ROMchipJournal" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@ROMchipJournal Newsletter: eepurl.com/crCul1 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/101857… and DONATE: hcb.hackclub.com/donations/star…

@circuitlions @MWKnutson_DH And our oldest Translation piece ever: the oldest known description of Mancala's rules, written in 1661--translated by Alex de Voogt and Lisa Rougetet romchip.org

📢 NEW ISSUE ALERT 📢 Take a break with the latest deep cuts in game history: 📜 @EstherWrigh_ on the historical discourses surrounding Pentiment's promotion and reviews 🕹️ @GuinsRaiford interviewing Atari engineers romchip.org

@chriserikthomas Pitch review is still open, we'll begin reviewing pitches around July 15, aiming to having a chosen pitch by late July!

@ROMchip_Journal Did you get enough responses to this or are you still looking for pitches?

@journoresources Yes! We're open to folks from anywhere, writing on any subject or geographic locale

@ROMchip_Journal Hi, is this open to freelance writers in the UK?

@saintsunflower Yes, we're happy to accept multiple pitches!

@ROMchip_Journal Can I pitch more than one idea?

@jakejameslugo Go ahead and email the Managing Editor -- email on the page!

@ROMchip_Journal Hey there, I have some questions that I'd like to ask about this. I'm interested, but would like to get a few details about pitching ideas for this (stuff I couldn't get from the page shared). Any way to DM and ask directly? Would be happy to pitch something if possible.