@eugen_pfister wrote an introductory blog post on our project!

Go forth and read at https://chludens.hypotheses.org/260

#SwissVideoGames #RetroVideoGames #VideoGamesResearch

This post is dedicated to Beat Suter:

Member of: ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
Role: Co-Lead

Beat co-founded Game Design at Zurich University of the Arts and has been working there for 19 years. He did his PhD research on hyperfiction at the University of Zurich and since then he has been involved in Game Art, Media Art, Game Design and Electronic Literature. He is also co-director of the GameLab ZHdK that includes a playable game archive.

His goals for the @chludens project are to establish a digital and physical archive for Swiss games and publish lost and new information together with the CH Ludens research colleagues. Hopefully, this will give some attention to the forgotten Swiss game design scenes of the past and connect them with the present scene.

Beat is currently playing ‘The Wandering Village’ and looks forward to playing ‘Henry Hallfhead’.

For further information about Beat, you’re welcome to visit his page: https://www.zhdk.ch/person/dr-phil-beat-suter-19056

#SwissVideoGames

This portrait is about Arno Görgen:
Member of: https://www.hkb.bfh.ch
Mastodon: @pachuki Role: Co-Lead @chludens

Arno grew up in the Eifel region where he used to play submarine in empty water tanks - a very risky and by now highly forbidden hobby! After he survived those playtimes he studied European Cultural History in Augsburg, Germany, and is now part of the #ch_ludens project. His research interests are - amongst others - system theory, medicalisation, illness in games, political history of ideas and the politics of pop culture.

His goal for the project is to get a better grip on how content and historical context are interconnected in games. He’s currently playing ‘Mundaun’ and ‘Ball Raider’ and is looking forward to play ‘Atomic Heart’, as he’s curious for its political contents (and to see, what all the buzz was about). For Swiss Games, he looks forward to ‘Antares’, a Sci-Fi-RPG from 1990!

#SwissVideoGames #VideoGameStudies

Our second portrait is dedicated to @addrich Member of: Universität Bern
Role: PostDoc

Growing up in the “deer valley”, situated between “moo” and “sheepland”, Addrich found his way to the UniBern where he studied Musicology (BA), World Arts (MA) and finished his PhD in Musicology. He’s particularly interested in soundscapes and heterotopias in video games and tries to look at gameworlds and game spaces from a cultural anthropological viewpoint. Another interest of his are the functional and sonic interactive intertwinement between players, gameworlds and interfaces.

In the @chludens project he aims to deepen his understanding of game sounds and soundscapes by learning about their earliest developments, as well as finding out whether there is a distinctive swiss-sound!

#CHLudens #SwissVideoGames #VideoGameSounds