Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸
@jaredchansen.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Game Design, Iowa State University Gamer, scholar, author, hobbyist dev. Research interests include game cultures, video game history, and archeogaming. Gen AI is theft. 🏳️⚧️🤝🏳️⚧️
So much writing recently. My brain is leaking out of my ears.
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
So much writing recently. My brain is leaking out of my ears.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Reposted by Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸
Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
November 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
We're hosting the 3rd Geogames Symposium next year at Iowa State! The call for papers has opened on EasyChair, and we're welcoming proposals for short papers, workshops, game demos, or a students' forum. #gamestudies #geogames #seriousgames easychair.org/conferences?...
Log in to EasyChair for 3GGS
easychair.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
We're hosting the 3rd Geogames Symposium next year at Iowa State! The call for papers has opened on EasyChair, and we're welcoming proposals for short papers, workshops, game demos, or a students' forum. #gamestudies #geogames #seriousgames easychair.org/conferences?...
Rolled my ankle on the way to campus this morning, and I’m supposed to teach this afternoon… I think I need to find a stool for my classroom
October 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Rolled my ankle on the way to campus this morning, and I’m supposed to teach this afternoon… I think I need to find a stool for my classroom
Reposted by Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸
Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons (Play Story Press 2025) edited by Suzanne Richardson & Edmond Y. Chang: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... - in print or open access PDF! #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd
October 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons (Play Story Press 2025) edited by Suzanne Richardson & Edmond Y. Chang: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... - in print or open access PDF! #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd
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This is amazing: @ladwp.com, the Los Angeles utility, has launched a program that will install solar+battery systems on qualifying low-to-moderate-income households, *for free*.
Yes: free.
If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!
Yes: free.
If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!
Self-Generation Incentive Program
The Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) helps qualified LADWP residential customers install solar and battery storage systems by providing financial incentives. This program supports clean energy...
www.ladwp.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This is amazing: @ladwp.com, the Los Angeles utility, has launched a program that will install solar+battery systems on qualifying low-to-moderate-income households, *for free*.
Yes: free.
If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!
Yes: free.
If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!
Reposted by Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸
Long shot, but did anyone by chance download Japanese game hacker makimuraMFG's VRC7 Family BASIC or MMC5 Family BASIC hacks in the past 11 or so years they've been online? His website is down and they weren't crawled by Archive.
September 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Long shot, but did anyone by chance download Japanese game hacker makimuraMFG's VRC7 Family BASIC or MMC5 Family BASIC hacks in the past 11 or so years they've been online? His website is down and they weren't crawled by Archive.
Reposted by Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸
We're looking to get a Game Gear cartridge PCB designed!
If someone with cartridge PCB design experience is interested, please send us a DM!
This would be PAID work!
RTs appreciated x3
If someone with cartridge PCB design experience is interested, please send us a DM!
This would be PAID work!
RTs appreciated x3
a cartoon drawing of a bear and a cat with the number 36 on their heads
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a bear and a cat with the number 36 on their heads
media.tenor.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
We're looking to get a Game Gear cartridge PCB designed!
If someone with cartridge PCB design experience is interested, please send us a DM!
This would be PAID work!
RTs appreciated x3
If someone with cartridge PCB design experience is interested, please send us a DM!
This would be PAID work!
RTs appreciated x3
Reposted by Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Reposted by Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸
I wrote a piece for the Guardian games newsletter this week on my PhD research into preserving play experiences, and why I think that the most archaeological games are those that that actually make you *think* like one 🏺
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...
Forget Tomb Raider and Uncharted, there’s a new generation of games about archaeology – sort of
In this week’s newsletter: an archaeologist (and gamer) on why we love to walk around finding objects in-game and in real life
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I wrote a piece for the Guardian games newsletter this week on my PhD research into preserving play experiences, and why I think that the most archaeological games are those that that actually make you *think* like one 🏺
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...
As an academic/scholar/person, what are some “classics” in your field other people are shocked you haven’t read/watched/played?
People are shocked when they find out I’m in #gamestudies and haven’t played The Last of Us.
People are shocked when they find out I’m in #gamestudies and haven’t played The Last of Us.
September 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
As an academic/scholar/person, what are some “classics” in your field other people are shocked you haven’t read/watched/played?
People are shocked when they find out I’m in #gamestudies and haven’t played The Last of Us.
People are shocked when they find out I’m in #gamestudies and haven’t played The Last of Us.
In the campus bookstore today:
Elderly person: (trying to make small talk) “So what year are you? Freshman?”
Me: (In shorts and flip flops) “I’m faculty, actually”
Elderly person: (trying to make small talk) “So what year are you? Freshman?”
Me: (In shorts and flip flops) “I’m faculty, actually”
August 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
In the campus bookstore today:
Elderly person: (trying to make small talk) “So what year are you? Freshman?”
Me: (In shorts and flip flops) “I’m faculty, actually”
Elderly person: (trying to make small talk) “So what year are you? Freshman?”
Me: (In shorts and flip flops) “I’m faculty, actually”
Due to a file corruption I lost 5-6 pages of writing. Not a ton of work, but I found out about a week later so I can barely remember what those pages were about
August 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Due to a file corruption I lost 5-6 pages of writing. Not a ton of work, but I found out about a week later so I can barely remember what those pages were about
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REPLY TO THIS FORM AND REPOST with your game or any game you know that has been removed by itch.io or steam because of this ban and if possible where the creator can be found and the game can be accessed (No Piracy)
I've also made a google form for this exact purpose
forms.gle/1ERJtaVUxQSq...
forms.gle/1ERJtaVUxQSq...
NSFW Game Compendium Submission
This is a form made for people to let us know about NSFW material that has been affected by recent policy changes in Steam and Itch.io.
Please verify if the game has been added into the document befor...
forms.gle
July 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
REPLY TO THIS FORM AND REPOST with your game or any game you know that has been removed by itch.io or steam because of this ban and if possible where the creator can be found and the game can be accessed (No Piracy)
Reposted by Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸
HUGE NEWS
I got contacted by a reporter who wants to do a piece about the MASSIVE push back against payment processors
We ARE making a difference
Keep calling + emailing!
Keep ↻💬♡
Don't let our voices be silenced!
I got contacted by a reporter who wants to do a piece about the MASSIVE push back against payment processors
We ARE making a difference
Keep calling + emailing!
Keep ↻💬♡
Don't let our voices be silenced!
July 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
HUGE NEWS
I got contacted by a reporter who wants to do a piece about the MASSIVE push back against payment processors
We ARE making a difference
Keep calling + emailing!
Keep ↻💬♡
Don't let our voices be silenced!
I got contacted by a reporter who wants to do a piece about the MASSIVE push back against payment processors
We ARE making a difference
Keep calling + emailing!
Keep ↻💬♡
Don't let our voices be silenced!
Reposted by Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸
For absolutely no reason whatsoever, I've created a quick survey asking about fanzines in 2025. It'll take around a minute to fill out—I really appreciate anyone who does, and who also shares this so others can too.
Again, asking for no reason. Just, you know, because. 🤷♀️
forms.gle/FeQsnT8bVC81...
Again, asking for no reason. Just, you know, because. 🤷♀️
forms.gle/FeQsnT8bVC81...
Mollie's totally random questionnaire
Please consider the following questions as if they were referring to a new video game fanzine/amateur magazine project concerning a topic you'd be interested in.
forms.gle
July 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
For absolutely no reason whatsoever, I've created a quick survey asking about fanzines in 2025. It'll take around a minute to fill out—I really appreciate anyone who does, and who also shares this so others can too.
Again, asking for no reason. Just, you know, because. 🤷♀️
forms.gle/FeQsnT8bVC81...
Again, asking for no reason. Just, you know, because. 🤷♀️
forms.gle/FeQsnT8bVC81...
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Reminder that now my PhD is done I’m available for work!
Writing, narrative design, historical and narrative consultancy, research etc.
I’ve got a PhD, 5 academic publications (another on the way), 3 shipped games (3 more on the way), lots of experience collaborating with cultural institutions
Writing, narrative design, historical and narrative consultancy, research etc.
I’ve got a PhD, 5 academic publications (another on the way), 3 shipped games (3 more on the way), lots of experience collaborating with cultural institutions
July 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Reminder that now my PhD is done I’m available for work!
Writing, narrative design, historical and narrative consultancy, research etc.
I’ve got a PhD, 5 academic publications (another on the way), 3 shipped games (3 more on the way), lots of experience collaborating with cultural institutions
Writing, narrative design, historical and narrative consultancy, research etc.
I’ve got a PhD, 5 academic publications (another on the way), 3 shipped games (3 more on the way), lots of experience collaborating with cultural institutions
Reposted by Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸
fellow nonfiction writers! if you're not currently saving EVERY SINGLE web page/web news story you cite to the Wayback Machine YOU SHOULD BE!!
no more dead links in footnotes!
no more dead links in bibliographies!
never ever forget how fragile the internet is—save internet history!
no more dead links in footnotes!
no more dead links in bibliographies!
never ever forget how fragile the internet is—save internet history!
This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived.
We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22 with a global celebration ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/w...
Want to take part? 🧵 #Wayback1T
We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22 with a global celebration ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/w...
Want to take part? 🧵 #Wayback1T
July 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
fellow nonfiction writers! if you're not currently saving EVERY SINGLE web page/web news story you cite to the Wayback Machine YOU SHOULD BE!!
no more dead links in footnotes!
no more dead links in bibliographies!
never ever forget how fragile the internet is—save internet history!
no more dead links in footnotes!
no more dead links in bibliographies!
never ever forget how fragile the internet is—save internet history!
Reposted by Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸
Game studies folks: I'm looking for some reviewers for HICCS. Specifically folks with expertise in gaming communities, narrative in games, monetization in games, streaming, governance, player motivations, and rhetorical methods and frameworks. HMU if that's you and you could take a paper or two!
a cartoon of a cat wearing headphones sitting at a desk with the word expert written below it
ALT: a cartoon of a cat wearing headphones sitting at a desk with the word expert written below it
media.tenor.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Game studies folks: I'm looking for some reviewers for HICCS. Specifically folks with expertise in gaming communities, narrative in games, monetization in games, streaming, governance, player motivations, and rhetorical methods and frameworks. HMU if that's you and you could take a paper or two!
Reposted by Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸
Alright everyone, one last push.
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.
trvr.org
June 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Alright everyone, one last push.
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
Reposted by Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸
If you’re living in or near the Chittenden County / Burlington area of Vermont, and you enjoy fighting games (or video game history), then this Wednesday night is YOUR LAST CHANCE to experience one of the largest repositories of fighting game history on the planet.
@wnfcdojo.bsky.social is closing.
@wnfcdojo.bsky.social is closing.
June 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If you’re living in or near the Chittenden County / Burlington area of Vermont, and you enjoy fighting games (or video game history), then this Wednesday night is YOUR LAST CHANCE to experience one of the largest repositories of fighting game history on the planet.
@wnfcdojo.bsky.social is closing.
@wnfcdojo.bsky.social is closing.
Reposted by Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸
It’s hard to escape the dawning realization that part of the goal of Google’s AI Overview is to simply eradicate the concept of anyone else having any kind of website at all.
Why click on a link & explore when Google told you the answer & you didn’t know it was wrong?
Why click on a link & explore when Google told you the answer & you didn’t know it was wrong?
June 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It’s hard to escape the dawning realization that part of the goal of Google’s AI Overview is to simply eradicate the concept of anyone else having any kind of website at all.
Why click on a link & explore when Google told you the answer & you didn’t know it was wrong?
Why click on a link & explore when Google told you the answer & you didn’t know it was wrong?
Reposted by Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸
Columbia canceled my class on Race and Media, but I'm teaching it anyway.
All thanks to people power and community support-- especially from you all on Bluesky!
Happy to announce I'll be teaching Race Media and International Affairs 101 online-- hosted by D.C.'s MLK Jr. Memorial Library!
All thanks to people power and community support-- especially from you all on Bluesky!
Happy to announce I'll be teaching Race Media and International Affairs 101 online-- hosted by D.C.'s MLK Jr. Memorial Library!
June 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Columbia canceled my class on Race and Media, but I'm teaching it anyway.
All thanks to people power and community support-- especially from you all on Bluesky!
Happy to announce I'll be teaching Race Media and International Affairs 101 online-- hosted by D.C.'s MLK Jr. Memorial Library!
All thanks to people power and community support-- especially from you all on Bluesky!
Happy to announce I'll be teaching Race Media and International Affairs 101 online-- hosted by D.C.'s MLK Jr. Memorial Library!