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honor ursula k. le guin in 2018 by envisioning a world free of borders and capitalism and also with some sick wizards, maybe a spaceship
I remember my first year in school. I will never forget it. I had been looking forward to my first day of school for a long time, and I had already met the teacher a couple of times before, together with my mother. She was a nice woman. First of all we had to learn how to behave in class. In the mornings, we were to stand up and great our teacher in Swedish. My Saami mother had taught me to say hi to people in Saami, using the term bures bures. A couple of months into the school year, something happened. We were a number of Saami students in the classroom, and sometimes we forgot to speak Swedish to our teacher. She told us off now and then. One morning I mixed up my languages and said “bures miss” to my teacher. Immediately my teacher turned at me and told me in a high-pitched voice to get the pointing stick from the time-out corner. I was shaking with fear as I held out my left hand, putting it on the table as instructed, all whilst closing my eyes and looking away. The hit was swift and brutal, and I remember how I, screaming, fell down on the floor in front of her. My 7 years old fingers had been completely crushed at the tip, just above the nails. My fingers were bleeding heavily, and the skin and nails had almost come off completely. As I couldn’t stop crying, I was told to leave the class room and sit in the corridor. […] More than a year passed before my fingers had healed up completely, and my nails had grown back. To this day, I suffer from pain and numbness in my fingers, a constant reminder of the fact that my mother tongue was beaten out of me on that day.
Sven Hermansson Bonta, Samefolket 6-7/2007 (via subaltern-no-more)
Just because a game decided it’s a woman shooting a dude in the face doesn’t change why I feel disconnected from this medium.
Mattie Brice http://www.mattiebrice.com/more-than-representation/ (via notgames)
a pillow is just a counterweight to your head to stop it from falling through your bed the floor and into earth’s core.
withoutpillow is this true
most of the time it feels like i'm either being compressed by some extreme weight, or like i'm falling, but maybe it's because of capitalism and love, or maybe it's my lack of pillow.
+46, my Ludum Dare 30 entry:
+46 about: »hello? hello!« play time: varied status: may be unplayable at certain hours of the day a “mobile game” playable August 26th - September 15th. made for the Ludum Dare 30 Jam, theme: Connected Worlds.
Storytelling is a political act. It’s making sense of the world and ourselves, and like every other kind of sense-making, it’s as political as it is personal and vice-versa. There is no distinction to be made between the political and the personal. Writing of any kind is political. It’s claimsmaking regarding reality and how to interpret it. Because whenever we’re faced with these things, we’re faced with fundamental truths regarding how creation makes and unmakes the world, regarding whose voices are amplified and whose are lost, between who gets to speak and who is literally silenced.
sunny moraine in 'the politics have always been there' (via elucipher)
my life is wonderful: a seven day art-poem
translation:
my life is wonderful. my life is wonderful. my life is wonderful. my life is wonderful. my life is wonderful, so terribly, wonderful / the same /… /
An experiment I made in seven days, the first four days posting the exact same comment on my facebook wall, after that changing the punctuation, and then the wording. My hypothesis was that over time, the number of likes would decrease and the comments increase, but that was not the case. Instead the general interest in the posts dropped, until the poem finally dissolved.
I put together some poems (+60) into a pdf/ebook thing - it’s a collection of the things I’ve been writing over the past months. Obviously, this is a lot of rough, early writing and I’m not trying very hard to sell it (it’s free, but you can donate). It would be nice to see this work published…
I’m happy to say that Text Jam 2014 is happening. It’s a game jam all about text games. Think text adventures, ascii art, choose your own adventure books! With graphics being so dramatically improved text games have fallen to the wayside, the purpose of this jam is to inspire developers to try...
18 Things White People Should Know/Do Before Discussing Racism | Tiffanie Drayton & Joshua McCarther
Discussions about racism should be all-inclusive and open to people of all skin colors. However, to put it simply, sometimes White people lack the experience or education that can provide a rudimentary foundation from which a productive conversation can be built. This is not necessarily the fault of the individual, but pervasive myths and misinformation have dominated mainstream racial discourse and often times, the important issues are never highlighted. For that reason, The Frisky has decided to publish this handy list that has some basic rules and information to better prepare anyone for a worthwhile discussion about racism.
1. It is uncomfortable to talk about racism. It is more uncomfortable to live it.
2. “Colorblindness” is a cop-out. The statements “but I don’t see color” or “I never care about color” do not help to build a case against systemic racism. Try being the only White person in an environment. You willnotice color then.
3. Oprah’s success does not mean the end of racism. The singular success of a Black man or woman (i.e. Oprah, or Tiger Woods, or President Obama) is never a valid argument against the existence of racism. By this logic, the success of Frederick Douglas or Amanda America Dickson during the 19th century would be grounds for disproving slavery.
4. Reverse racism is BS, but prejudice is not. Until people of color colonize, dominate and enslave the populations of the planet in the name of “superiority,” create standards of beauty based on their own colored definition, enact a system where only people of color benefit on a large-scale, and finally pretend like said system no longer exists, there is no such thing as reverse racism. Prejudice is in all of us, but prejudice employed as a governing structure is something different.
5. America has not “gotten over” its race-related problems. In American History class you learned about slavery and Jim Crow, but sadly you were taught that figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks eradicated an entire 200-year history of oppression, discrimination and segregation. Your history teachers and books tried close the race chapter on a high note, however the ongoing history of America’s systemic racism cannot be simply wrapped up and decorated with a “now we all are equal” bow.
6. Google is your best friend. Search: Black/White wealth gap, redlining, “White flight,” subprime mortgages and black families, discriminatory sentencing practices, occupational overcrowding, workplace discrimination, employment discrimination, mandatory minimum sentences and in-school segregation to start. Here are some highlights:
The median wealth gap difference between a White family and a Black family is $80,000.
1 in 9 Black children has an incarcerated parent compared to 1 in 57 White children.
A White man who has been to jail still more likely to get a job than a Black man who hasn’t.
7. Then read some more. Google: Black Wall Street, Sundown towns, eugenics and forced sterilization, and Black voting prohibition.
8. Buy and read a book from a Black author. Some recommendations: W.E.B Dubois, James Baldwin, Frederick Douglass, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston would be a great start.
9. Realize that segregation is still rampant. Step outside and take a look around your neighborhood. Lacking people of color much? That is called segregation. It is not by chance, though sometimes by choice. (Refer to “redlining” Google search.)
About your neighborhood again: Displacing people of color much? That is called gentrification.
Think about the schools you went to and the classes you had. Not too many minorities in either? (Refer to school segregation/in-school segregation.)
10. Programs or initiatives that target systemic racism are not “charity.” We do not refer to the 200 years of free labor provided by enslaved Blacks as charity. Or the Black property stolen by Whites during the decades of state-supported terrorism? Or, say, the unfair banking practices that have completely decimated the Black middle class through foreclosures (refer to subprime mortgages and Black families google search)?
11. Black on Black crime does not exist. There are countless White people committing crimes against White people, but “White-on-White crime” is strangely absent from the rhetoric reporting everything from elementary school shootings to world wars. Why should crimes committed by and against people of color be labelled any differently?
12. White people will not become the minority in America in the next 20 years. “Whites” were originally Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs). The definition of “White,” as a racial classification, has evolved to include “Whiter-skinned” minority groups who were historically discriminated against, barred from “Whiteness” and thus had little access to opportunity. Some examples: Italians and the Irish (who were frequently referred to as n***ers in the 1800’s), Jewish people and more recently Hispanic (George Zimmerman) and Armenian minority groups. Such evolutions, however, always exclude Blacks.
13. Hip-hop culture is no more dysfunctional than Wall Street culture. At its worst, commercial “Black culture” is a raw reflection of broader society. The caricatured imagery of drugs, money, and women are headlined most prominently by Wall Street, politicians, and media moguls but this reality never comes to reflect on White people. America spends more on weaponry than the most of the rest of the world combined but somehow it is the “violence” of hip-hop that is an exclusive pathology.
14. Black people are angry about racism, and they have every right to be. Anger is a legitimate and justified response to years of injustice and invisibility.
15. There are poor White people, but racism and discrimination still exists. The plight of the poor White midwest always makes a convenient appearance to deflect any perceived accusation of privilege or to derail conversations of racism. Racist American policy was never about securing the success of all White people, but rather about legalizing the disenfranchisement of Blacks and other people of color.
16. Silence does nothing. Blank stares and silence do not further this difficult but necessary conversation.
17. White guilt is worthless, but White action isn’t. One of the most immediate responses to racial discourse is that the effort is all about making White people feel guilty. Discourse about racism is not meant to stir up feelings of guilt, it is meant to drive people to action against injustice. During the times of slavery and the era of the Civil Rights Movement, both Black and White people played and continue to play instrumental roles in Black advancement.
18. Black people are not obligated to answer the “Well, what do we do about it?” question. Though many of us do and are not heard. The call for reparations in the form of “Baby Bonds” is a great idea. So isdesegregating our classrooms and closing the school-to-prison pipeline. These courageous voices are speaking very loudly — it is time to start listening.
We wonder how many of these would apply to games.
A game that needs a manual is poorly designed.
1. capital is a totalizing system
a lot of us making weird games about feelings and real human situations and w/e also happen to have radical politics that tell us that capital is destructive and shitty. but, and this is kind of an obvious point, you need food and shelter, so you need money....
fisketur is a short game I made with rosa stegosaurus for the Ludum Dare 29 jam. The theme was Beneath the surface. It's the first graphical game I've worked on. Go to Game Jolt to download. Windows only. Be patient, the fish is sure to turn up eventually. fisketur (Swedish) can mean both fishing trip and to have luck fishing. Certain pictures are from Tsai Ming-liang's short film Fish, underground (2001).
I just really hate puzzle games. I find no joy in solving puzzles at all.
Dan Pinchbeck http://killscreendaily.com/articles/articles/feature/dan-pinchbeck-talks-about-everybodys-gone-rapture-and-why-myst-sucks/ (via notgames)
The shift to mobile web and the new providers/devices common to that realm has been and will continue to be used as an opportunity to terraform cultural consensus on what the web “is,” away from the considerably less restrictive WWW of the 90s and 00s and towards a model of services largely...
This is something I’ve worried about before — whether the increased availability of tools for modifying Twine might not end up reproducing in miniature, to some degree, the biases that exist in broader game creation towards audiovisual and mechanical “polish” (a word I have come to revile). I’ve heard people voice concerns that their little Twine project wasn’t as worthy of the complex, technically impressive works they see being produced, and I’ve worried that this might lead some people to just never bother in the first place. And I’ve even found myself wracking my brain, thinking up ways to make even very small, personally important pieces more mechanically interesting, when that wasn’t something they necessarily needed.
I’ve pushed Twine as an accessible means of making games in the past and I don’t want to see it get pulled into the commercial videogame logic that seems to infect so much game design, even the furthest outside the industry. That’s where the Naked Twine Jam comes in. [...]
You should read the rest of the entry and check out the games.
Even though I only spent a few hours on my game it was a lot of fun, and, like merritt says, creating games are "a big deal". And what's personal is important and political, and the jam was a great way to highlight this. The human things, like running around naked, shaving, having sex, travelling.
Thanks merritt kopas for hosting this!