@miguelsicart.bsky.social
Play scholar, among other things
@miguelsicart.bsky.socialBut I would totally do!
@miguelsicart.bsky.socialI know you’re not a replicant because you would never flip a tortoise in the desert.
@mostlyindie.comReposted by @miguelsicart.bsky.socialMy article "Press Play" is now out in this Anglica special issue: anglica-journal.com/article/5593...
It's about representations of news media in games like Beyond Good & Evil and BG3, but also about newsgames (@miguelsicart.bsky.social) and The New York Times Simulator (@molleindustria.org)
@carvalhais.orgReposted by @miguelsicart.bsky.socialRosemary Lee’s installation “Matéria Escura Digital / Digital Dark Matter” opens today at gnration in Braga! A wonderful work to visit until January! 🔦 🧊 🌈 @machineagency.bsky.social
@miguelsicart.bsky.socialAmigos! He charlado con el gran Victor Martinez, de @anaitgames.com en su programa El Otro Castillo, y podéis ver los resultados en RTVE (necesitáis una cuenta pero es gratis!):
www.rtve.es/play/videos/...
@brainfruit.bsky.socialReposted by @miguelsicart.bsky.socialCan you count? Are you sure?
Announcing SHEEPS, a game where you have several thousand problems. Count the sheep pouring out of mysterious portals, gain unfair counting advantages, survive terrible counting curses. Discover, at long last, a use for math.
Coming 2027. Wishlist: bit.ly/countsheeps
@ferporbar.bsky.socialReposted by @miguelsicart.bsky.socialVamos, que nos entran las dudas sobre el proyecto de todos los años y nos ponemos de los nervios. Así que si conocéis a alguien que le pueda interesar @revistaloop.bsky.social, apoyarlo o si podéis echar una mano difundiendo vkm.is/loop6, estaremos eternamente agradecidos. ¡Por un nuevo bucle!
@flantz.bsky.socialReposted by @miguelsicart.bsky.socialOur new word game / tower defense mashup now has a free demo! store.steampowered.com/app/5346200/...
@supersplinestudios.comReposted by @miguelsicart.bsky.socialWe have 2 newly opened roles for UK ONLY games animators. Optionally in our lovely Leamington Spa office.
RARE JUNIOR ROLE!!! - we want to invest in future talent with this one, we wanna offer the best start we can for a games animator.
@ingridguardiola.bsky.socialReposted by @miguelsicart.bsky.socialNecessitem el nou Max Weber que, enlloc d'escriure "L'ètica protestant i l'esperit del capitalisme", ho faci sobre la "moral evangelista i l'esperit del capitalisme ultra" (religiós-fanàtic, patriarcal, autoritari, militar, financer, plutòcrata, xenòfob, expropiador).
@lewisgordon.bsky.socialReposted by @miguelsicart.bsky.socialThrilled this one is finally up: for the New York Times, I spoke to @molleindustria.org about his very funny, very revolutionary eco-socialist, open-world adventure, Future? No Thanks!
🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/a...
@failbettergames.comReposted by @miguelsicart.bsky.socialWe're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level.
This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week.
@miguelsicart.bsky.socialImpressive how uninteresting these people are. Weird, but also so, so, so dull.
@everest.bsky.socialReposted by @miguelsicart.bsky.socialI'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...
@martinpi.bsky.socialReposted by @miguelsicart.bsky.socialWe're organising a Steam event that's all about birds. I do not know what made me obsessed with birds but here we are.
@florencesn.bsky.socialReposted by @miguelsicart.bsky.socialMy piece "Websites From Another World" is now published in @chiselmag.bsky.social! Absolutely floored by the gorgeous art for it by Renaud Vigourt!
I talked to @playthroughline.com, @stanwixbuster.co.uk + Kitty Ess about the alt reality internets they've conjured
@miguelsicart.bsky.socialMy newsletter has a new home, and I wrote a thing about agentic systems to celebrate it (what is a newsletter without a post on AI these days?)
www.rumicat.com/playing-soft...
Subscribe here: www.rumicat.com/playing-soft...
(moved to a small European-based product called rumicat, by nternet.company)
@miguelsicart.bsky.socialFuerza Lucas!! Vaya desafío!!
@maxhaiven.bsky.socialReposted by @miguelsicart.bsky.socialIt's publication day for my new book, THE PLAYER AND THE PLAYED: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st Century Fascism, now out open access (free) from @mitpress.bsky.social
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