By Joost Vervoort — Anticiplay project lead — Dr. Joost Vervoort is an Associate Professor of Transformative Imagination at Utrecht University. His work focuses on connecting games and creative practices, politics and action to create better futures. Email: j.m.vervoort@uu.nl Twitter: @Vervoort_Joost In 2021, after years of campaigning and ramping up strategies, Dutch activist group Fossielvrij NL are preparing…

By Joost Vervoort — Anticiplay project lead — Dr. Joost Vervoort is an Associate Professor of Transformative Imagination at Utrecht University. His work focuses on connecting games and creative practices, politics and action to create better futures. Email: j.m.vervoort@uu.nl Twitter: @Vervoort_Joost Five days ago, cross-platform game engine Unity announced that they would start charging game developers for every…

By Joost Vervoort — Anticiplay project lead — Dr. Joost Vervoort is an Associate Professor of Transformative Imagination at Utrecht University. His work focuses on connecting games and creative practices, politics and action to create better futures. Email: j.m.vervoort@uu.nl Twitter: @Vervoort_Joost Why do you always kill God in Japanese role playing games? Youtuber Moon_Channel lays out a complex…

By Joost Vervoort — Anticiplay project lead — Dr. Joost Vervoort is an Associate Professor of Transformative Imagination at Utrecht University. His work focuses on connecting games and creative practices, politics and action to create better futures. Email: j.m.vervoort@uu.nl Twitter: @Vervoort_Joost Some time ago I was asked by Giovanni Stijnen, the director of Utrecht’s beautiful old cosmic observatory…

By Aric McBay — Aric McBay is an organizer, a narrative designer, and author of seven books. I’ve been playing video games since my parents bought an Apple IIc in the late 1980s. I’ve been an activist and a climate justice organizer for more than twenty years. …

By Joost Vervoort — Anticiplay Project Lead — Dr. Joost Vervoort is an Associate Professor of Transformative Imagination at Utrecht University. His work focuses on connecting games and creative practices, politics and action to create better futures. Email: j.m.vervoort@uu.nl Twitter: @Vervoort_Joost I’m supervising the coolest MSc thesis project. Frans Rijnders is focusing his thesis research on two exceptional…

By the Anticiplay Team — Some exciting things have been happening since the start of this year at Anticiplay (besides getting our climate courthouse game All Rise funded, believe it or not!). …

By Joost Vervoort — Anticiplay Project Lead — Dr. Joost Vervoort is an Associate Professor of Transformative Imagination at Utrecht University. His work focuses on connecting games and creative practices, politics and action to create better futures. Email: j.m.vervoort@uu.nl Twitter: @Vervoort_Joost A circular space station hangs in the void. A relic of corporate collapse. But there is life…

By Joost Vervoort — Anticiplay Project Lead — Dr. Joost Vervoort is an Associate Professor of Transformative Imagination at Utrecht University. His work focuses on connecting games and creative practices, politics and action to create better futures. Email: j.m.vervoort@uu.nl Twitter: @Vervoort_Joost Terra Nil is out! This long-awaited ecosystem restoration game has been described as a ‘reverse city builder’…