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Peer-reviewed goosebumps: academic writing as a transmission of energy

What happens if you write your papers as a way to transmit energy to people?

9 min readFeb 18, 2024

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Peer-reviewed goosebumps: academic writing as a transmission of energy

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All Rise — an inappropriately joyous game about fighting for the planet

We’re clashing Phoenix Wright, Disco Elysium and narrative deck building with the ecological crisis — to help fund real court cases.

11 min readFeb 9, 2024

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All Rise — an inappropriately joyous game about fighting for the planet

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Infrastructures of mystery — scaffolding the wonder of existence

What if society would recognize and support the value of connecting to life’s mystery?

11 min readJan 17, 2024

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Infrastructures of mystery — scaffolding the wonder of existence

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Take a course, build a video game, change the world

Utrecht University and the HKU University of the Arts help students build video games for better futures

6 min readNov 6, 2023

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Take a course, build a video game, change the world

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Transformative imagination

Linking resonant action, deeply creative practice, and imagination infrastructures

15 min readOct 23, 2023

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Transformative imagination

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Unity and the destruction of imagination infrastructure

Can we afford to have our collective imaginations be held hostage by profoundly short-sighted business decisions?

6 min readSep 17, 2023

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Unity and the destruction of imagination infrastructure

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Heart constellations: killing the capitalist god of loneliness

How can loneliness be the starting point of social change? And how can games help?

11 min readAug 11, 2023

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Heart constellations: killing the capitalist god of loneliness

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Wonder + X: cosmic connection, difficult emotions, and real social change

How can cosmic wonder and difficult but mobilizing emotions be combined to support social change?

6 min readJul 26, 2023

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Wonder + X: cosmic connection, difficult emotions, and real social change

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What great games and powerful social movements have in common

Aric McBay writes about the common ground between games and social movements regarding attention, rules, escalation, power and…

28 min readJun 26, 2023

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What great games and powerful social movements have in common

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How Dark Souls (and therapy, meditation, psychedelics, heartbreak and everything else) helped me…

Joost tells a somewhat embarrassing story about how what we learn from games can resonate with life challenges.

10 min readJun 2, 2023

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How Dark Souls (and therapy, meditation, psychedelics, heartbreak and everything else) helped me…

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Anticiplay

An NWO Vidi research project • Exploring how games can help imagine & realize sustainable futures • Games For Better Futures & Futures For Better Games 🎮

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