Brendan Keogh

@BRKeogh

Critic and academic, mostly of videogames. Overland, Reverse Shot, Unwinnable, Paste, Polygon, others. Lecturer at SAE Brisbane.

Brisbane, Australia
Joined March 2009

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  1. Thursday night I helped organise and it was real great. Yesterday I helped organise and it was real great. Now I die.

  2. Now hearing about Courtney Barnett and the rise of 'dolewave' and conflicted feelings on Australian pride

  3. . talking about a return of 80s/90s Australiana in not just games but culture more broadly

  4. Perception among devs that Melbourne indie scene is 'more independent' than Brizzy indie scene. Wonder if parallel to other media

  5. Brendan Keogh followed , and
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  6. Aus game industry shift from 80% work for hire to 75% original IP since 2007

  7. Opt-in seems more polite but opt-out would've been so much easier to police without screwing up.

  8. So we're trying to do an active consent thing with tweeting about ppl's talks and I am SO BAD at asking at the start of each talk.

  9. Check out all this data! 🤓

  10. Huh. So mapping a spectrum of a genre with data. Interesting.

  11. Pretty interesting mapping of a genre. Wonder how transferrable it is to genres w/o their first game in the genre name

  12. Ben showing a prehistory of LPs. Cameras pointed at CRT tvs to record early esports. Player hands in corner.

  13. Times accidentally tweeted quips from the digraa account since conference started: 3

  14. . touchin on the flip side of the haptic knowledges I talked about in my talk: the assumption of an able-bodied player.

  15. Interesting argument that live-action video never went away in games. Is still around thanks to motion capture

  16. Retweeted
  17. Okay someone else clearly has to take over this asking social media consent thing

  18. This 'wayfinding' theme has been great for getting to ppl to revisit/introduce different theorists and theories in a cool way.

  19. The dadification of games taken to its ultimate conclusion

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