We moved the #Amiga set, that @thgie acquired last week (https://post.lurk.org/@thgie/110899430295139256), to the informal game lab at the University of Bern today.

Everything was still running fine, and @addrich and @thgie started with digging through the floppy haul. So far, nothing extraordinary. We'll see what is working and try to create a catalogue.

Among the generally popular, mostly copied games, we also found some slightly underground-ish releases from a group called Helioth Productions. They distributed collections with demos, cracked games, and tools.

There was also a hacked variant of "Amiga Tetris", called "Tetris Sex Special" by Sky Devils/BillyJohn, where they replaced all the backgrounds with softporn 🫣

#CHLudens #VideoGameResearch #VideoGameHistory

Der grossartige Podcast zu Designforschung “design. macht. gesellschaft.” hat eine Folge zu unserem Forschungsprojekt #CHLudens gemacht. Mit Eliane Gerber, @pachuki und, als Gast, @eugen_pfister.

https://podcast337600.podigee.io/2-games

The podcast episode is in German, hence the choice of language for this post.

#VideoGameResearch #VideoGameHistory #DesignResearch

Global News BC: UBC research draws new links between video game ‘loot boxes’ and gambling https://globalnews.ca/news/9535007/loot-boxes-gambling-research/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #UniversityOfBritishColumbia #Gamblingaddiction #videogameresearch #gamblingresearch #LootBoxAddiction #lootboxgambling #VideoGames #Lootboxes #Gambling #Canada #UBC