Stefano Gualeni
@gua-le-ni.com
Professor at the University of Malta's @indigitalgames.bsky.social
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WHAT WE OWE THE DEAD ⇒ https://www.setmargins.press/books/what-we-owe-the-dead/
Migrant ☆ https://gua-le-ni.com/
WHAT WE OWE THE DEAD ⇒ https://www.setmargins.press/books/what-we-owe-the-dead/
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Stefano Gualeni
@gua-le-ni.com
· Apr 2
'What We Owe the Dead' is the title of my new #scifi novel.
In the aftermath of a climate catastrophe, the book follows strange detective case and deals with themes such as the notion of personhood and the social use of #games.
> www.setmargins.press/books/what-w... <
(photos by Annette Behrens)
In the aftermath of a climate catastrophe, the book follows strange detective case and deals with themes such as the notion of personhood and the social use of #games.
> www.setmargins.press/books/what-w... <
(photos by Annette Behrens)
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🎮 @amidos2006.bsky.social offered some techniques for procedural generation in 2D games at at ExpoVIT 2025 in Costa Rica.
Watch the talk to learn what they are, how to use them, and also some ideas on how to combine them for your games.
🔻Hint #Stochastic #WFC #AI
www.youtube.com/live/k9nVryZ...
Watch the talk to learn what they are, how to use them, and also some ideas on how to combine them for your games.
🔻Hint #Stochastic #WFC #AI
www.youtube.com/live/k9nVryZ...
Charla Virtual - Expovit 2025 - 14 Nov - Parte 1
YouTube video by EXPOVIT
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🎮 @amidos2006.bsky.social offered some techniques for procedural generation in 2D games at at ExpoVIT 2025 in Costa Rica.
Watch the talk to learn what they are, how to use them, and also some ideas on how to combine them for your games.
🔻Hint #Stochastic #WFC #AI
www.youtube.com/live/k9nVryZ...
Watch the talk to learn what they are, how to use them, and also some ideas on how to combine them for your games.
🔻Hint #Stochastic #WFC #AI
www.youtube.com/live/k9nVryZ...
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Never be afraid to avoid new things.
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Never be afraid to avoid new things.
November 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Saying «AI is just a tool» might be the laziest form of aggressive ignorance. As a statement, it's ultimately both trivial and almost meaningless, serving only to free you from further thought so that you can use the gadgets without caring about their preconditions, implications, and consequences
Also this by Rafman: "What I still don’t understand is this whole idea of ‘ethical AI’. To me, even framing it that way is already problematic. AI itself isn’t unethical – it’s a tool." That's naive at best (I'm trying to be very understanding here).
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Saying «AI is just a tool» might be the laziest form of aggressive ignorance. As a statement, it's ultimately both trivial and almost meaningless, serving only to free you from further thought so that you can use the gadgets without caring about their preconditions, implications, and consequences
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🏹The Hunger Games builds its narrative around a fictional game. What can the (fictional) games we play reveal about the values held by society?
🎙️ @gua-le-ni.com chats with @matthewleggatt.bsky.social & @dystopiajunkie.bsky.social on @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social
🔗 www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/li...
🎙️ @gua-le-ni.com chats with @matthewleggatt.bsky.social & @dystopiajunkie.bsky.social on @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social
🔗 www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/li...
Utopia, Play, and Fictional Games: A conversation with Prof. Stefano Gualeni
How do fictional games work as world-building tools and what can the games we play reveal?
www.um.edu.mt
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🏹The Hunger Games builds its narrative around a fictional game. What can the (fictional) games we play reveal about the values held by society?
🎙️ @gua-le-ni.com chats with @matthewleggatt.bsky.social & @dystopiajunkie.bsky.social on @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social
🔗 www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/li...
🎙️ @gua-le-ni.com chats with @matthewleggatt.bsky.social & @dystopiajunkie.bsky.social on @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social
🔗 www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/li...
Check this out :)
CFP for a special issue of Eludamos. What are antifascist games? Proposal deadline is December 19.
eludamos.org/index.php/el...
eludamos.org/index.php/el...
Special Issue: WHAT ARE ANTIFASCIST GAMES?
| Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture
eludamos.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Check this out :)
November 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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We’re looking for an experienced 3D game animator to bring our human characters to life!
Can you handle IK setups, cyclical animation loops and export/import between Blender and Unity? Are you familiar with root motion and setting up blend trees?
Send us your cv to
[email protected]
Can you handle IK setups, cyclical animation loops and export/import between Blender and Unity? Are you familiar with root motion and setting up blend trees?
Send us your cv to
[email protected]
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We’re looking for an experienced 3D game animator to bring our human characters to life!
Can you handle IK setups, cyclical animation loops and export/import between Blender and Unity? Are you familiar with root motion and setting up blend trees?
Send us your cv to
[email protected]
Can you handle IK setups, cyclical animation loops and export/import between Blender and Unity? Are you familiar with root motion and setting up blend trees?
Send us your cv to
[email protected]
Reposted by Stefano Gualeni
Oh hey, that's me! Very much looking forward to giving this talk at ITU next week!
Friends! On November 19th at 16:00, in Auditorium 3 at the ITU, we are hosting a talk by Florence Smith Nicholls. The talk is titled How to be a video game archaeologist. You can read about it here: digitalplay.itu.dk/event/floren...
How To Be A Video Game Archaeologist - A talk by Florence Smith Nicholls | Center for Digital Play
How To Be A Video Game Archaeologist - A talk by Florence Smith Nicholls
digitalplay.itu.dk
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Oh hey, that's me! Very much looking forward to giving this talk at ITU next week!
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For the past decade, I've been slowly cooking a small and humble book.
Part (alternative) history, part analysis, and part social critique, this is a look at what games also are and have always been.
ZEN AND SLOW GAMES
Out 20/1/2026 by MIT Press
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255356...
Part (alternative) history, part analysis, and part social critique, this is a look at what games also are and have always been.
ZEN AND SLOW GAMES
Out 20/1/2026 by MIT Press
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255356...
November 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
For the past decade, I've been slowly cooking a small and humble book.
Part (alternative) history, part analysis, and part social critique, this is a look at what games also are and have always been.
ZEN AND SLOW GAMES
Out 20/1/2026 by MIT Press
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255356...
Part (alternative) history, part analysis, and part social critique, this is a look at what games also are and have always been.
ZEN AND SLOW GAMES
Out 20/1/2026 by MIT Press
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255356...
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When Elden Ring had been announced but not yet released, its subreddit started collectively pretending the game was already out.
I spent far too many hours reading strategies to defeat the (completely made-up) Glaive Master Hodir. For research.
This is the result: doi.org/10.1093/aest...
I spent far too many hours reading strategies to defeat the (completely made-up) Glaive Master Hodir. For research.
This is the result: doi.org/10.1093/aest...
Fictional Game Spectatorship: On Pretend-Play and Collective Imagination in Gaming Communities
Abstract. Fictional games are games that do not actually exist, but that are presented within works of fiction. They are thus not appreciated through play,
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
When Elden Ring had been announced but not yet released, its subreddit started collectively pretending the game was already out.
I spent far too many hours reading strategies to defeat the (completely made-up) Glaive Master Hodir. For research.
This is the result: doi.org/10.1093/aest...
I spent far too many hours reading strategies to defeat the (completely made-up) Glaive Master Hodir. For research.
This is the result: doi.org/10.1093/aest...
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I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.
October 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.
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I wrote a short summary of the below recently published paper for the New Work in Philosophy blog.
open.substack.com/pub/newworki...
Thanks @marcusarvan.bsky.social for hosting this!
open.substack.com/pub/newworki...
Thanks @marcusarvan.bsky.social for hosting this!
October 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I wrote a short summary of the below recently published paper for the New Work in Philosophy blog.
open.substack.com/pub/newworki...
Thanks @marcusarvan.bsky.social for hosting this!
open.substack.com/pub/newworki...
Thanks @marcusarvan.bsky.social for hosting this!
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When we talk about videogames and movies I think we often miss how videogames are represented as history/memory tools in Chris Marker's Level Five. I wrote about it for The Bunker Magazine through @gua-le-ni.com and Fassone's book "Fictional Games. A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play".
October 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
When we talk about videogames and movies I think we often miss how videogames are represented as history/memory tools in Chris Marker's Level Five. I wrote about it for The Bunker Magazine through @gua-le-ni.com and Fassone's book "Fictional Games. A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play".
In case you missed it, I talked about my latest novel - a speculative sci-fi detective story - at the 'Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast.' Check it out! :)
>> youtu.be/eFW_XltfW-k?... <<
@indigitalgames.bsky.social @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social @matthewleggatt.bsky.social
>> youtu.be/eFW_XltfW-k?... <<
@indigitalgames.bsky.social @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social @matthewleggatt.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
In case you missed it, I talked about my latest novel - a speculative sci-fi detective story - at the 'Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast.' Check it out! :)
>> youtu.be/eFW_XltfW-k?... <<
@indigitalgames.bsky.social @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social @matthewleggatt.bsky.social
>> youtu.be/eFW_XltfW-k?... <<
@indigitalgames.bsky.social @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social @matthewleggatt.bsky.social
Git fud!
>> soup.gua-le-ni.com <<
(This is an old game we made in 2017, not related to the hilarious picture below)
>> soup.gua-le-ni.com <<
(This is an old game we made in 2017, not related to the hilarious picture below)
October 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Git fud!
>> soup.gua-le-ni.com <<
(This is an old game we made in 2017, not related to the hilarious picture below)
>> soup.gua-le-ni.com <<
(This is an old game we made in 2017, not related to the hilarious picture below)
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GAME IDEA
Top half and bottom half of the same game sold separately
Top half and bottom half of the same game sold separately
October 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
GAME IDEA
Top half and bottom half of the same game sold separately
Top half and bottom half of the same game sold separately
Christmas comes early, this year :)
October 20, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Christmas comes early, this year :)
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Check out this nice review of FICTIONAL GAMES that @steinea.bsky.social did for ARB a while back: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2023/05/26/i...
Imagined Agency: Review of Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone’s Fictional Games
Eric Stein Under Review:Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play. Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone. Bloomsbury Academic, January 2023. Throughout the media we enjoy, fr…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
October 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Check out this nice review of FICTIONAL GAMES that @steinea.bsky.social did for ARB a while back: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2023/05/26/i...
Finally you can hear me pontificate on stuff like fictional #games and #utopia!
📢 Episode 16 of 'Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast (
@utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social, with @matthewleggatt.bsky.social).
📢 Episode 16 of 'Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast (
@utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social, with @matthewleggatt.bsky.social).
Episode 16 on all things playful in utopian and dystopian fiction is available to stream now via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. We had a lot of fun talking to the brilliant Stefano Gualeni. Take a listen and let us know what you think.
open.spotify.com/episode/3Pz0...
open.spotify.com/episode/3Pz0...
October 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Finally you can hear me pontificate on stuff like fictional #games and #utopia!
📢 Episode 16 of 'Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast (
@utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social, with @matthewleggatt.bsky.social).
📢 Episode 16 of 'Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast (
@utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social, with @matthewleggatt.bsky.social).
Reposted by Stefano Gualeni
Episode 16 on all things playful in utopian and dystopian fiction is available to stream now via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. We had a lot of fun talking to the brilliant Stefano Gualeni. Take a listen and let us know what you think.
open.spotify.com/episode/3Pz0...
open.spotify.com/episode/3Pz0...
October 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Episode 16 on all things playful in utopian and dystopian fiction is available to stream now via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. We had a lot of fun talking to the brilliant Stefano Gualeni. Take a listen and let us know what you think.
open.spotify.com/episode/3Pz0...
open.spotify.com/episode/3Pz0...