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Clara Fernandez-Vara

@clarafv

Media scholar and narrative designer. NYU Game Center faculty. Loves stories. Also in the elephant platform, same username, social server.

New York City, NYclarafv.netJoined May 2010

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Charlie Kaufman reminding me of why I love his writing, with all its ups and downs. "“They’ve tricked us into thinking we can’t do it without them. The truth is they can’t do anything of value without us.” Applies to writers and anyone who works within systems of oppression.

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Charlie Kaufman accepts WGA Laurel Award: "We writers are trained to believe that what we do is secondary to what [executives] do. We are trained to do the bidding of people who are motivated not by curiosity, but by protecting their jobs." Full speech: youtube.com/watch?v=WejrTS

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And this is why going to game design school may not be a bad idea if you want to be a game designer for real.

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Geoff Engelstein

@gengelstein

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I don’t understand this at all.

Clara Fernandez-Vara

@clarafv

Feb 28

👇🏼supporting black talent is a year-round thing.

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Dr. Saffista

@NYMG_saffista

Feb 27

Just a reminder to all of the brands and studios who have been drawing from this deep ass pool of Black talent for 27 days…we exist the other 11 months of the year too.

Don’t be mercenary with your support. Be blessed.

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@clarafv

Feb 28

Here just to express my love of both of these.

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Frog Detective

@frogdetective

Feb 28

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Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

Feb 26

Someone asked me why is Black history, specifically, being targeted. I said it's because our history has always been political *by definition*: Our very presence on these lands is the greatest rebuke to the narrative of American exceptionalism. We give lie to the lie.

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Hey if you'll be at

, I'm giving a talk about my ⊞SPREADSHEETS CLASS⊞ in the educator summit!! 3/21 3:50pm. I'll be sharing materials from my

@NYUGameCenter

class, about why we should teach spreadsheets to game designers, and how to do it!

schedule.gdconf.com

Educators Summit: Games That Cell: Teaching Spreadsheets in Art School

Tuesday March 21 3:50pm - 4:20pm - The humble spreadsheet is easy to overlook but it's ubiquitous across the game industry. They're surprisingly versatile...

This movie is great and weird and yes, it’s about a cat who reveals what people actually feel.

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Chris "One PVM" Person

@Papapishu

Feb 24

Až přijde kocour got a 4k restoration thanks to the Czech National Film Archive and it looks great arrowfilms.com/blu-ray/the-ca

Clara Fernandez-Vara

@clarafv

Feb 21

I'll be back at MIT in April, so get your tickets!

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T.L. Taylor

@ybika

Feb 21

The MIT Gaming Industry Club (@mitgic) is hosting the Sloan Gaming Industry Conference here in Cambridge on April 7 with an impressive line-up of speakers (sloangroups.mit.edu/sgic/guests/)! Tickets at eventbrite.com/e/mit-sloan-ga.

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Feb 19

The new grift for people who have too much money and don't realize that this has been around for 20 years and no, it doesn't work like physical real state. *digital media historian collective facepalm*

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The New York Times

@nytimes

Feb 19

There's a new frontier for real estate builders and investors: the metaverse. Pixelated parcels of land are being bought, sold and built upon in a market now worth $1.4 billion. nyti.ms/3lItGoR

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@clarafv

Feb 19

Looks like Steam is thinking of me this week, so I catch up with mystery games. And also get

@GrundislavGames

' Lamplight City if you haven't yet.

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Francisco González

@GrundislavGames

Feb 19

The Steam Mystery Fest starts tomorrow! A perfect occasion to finally get Lamplight City off your wishlist and into your cart ;) youtu.be/EBinUwm_wLs

Clara Fernandez-Vara

@clarafv

Feb 18

👇🏻this so much.

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𝕞𝕖𝕘𝕙𝕟𝕒 𝕛𝕒𝕪𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕙

@betterthemask

Feb 17

this binary of game & story, narrative & mechanics needs to be binned. the mechanics, the effects of agency, the specific affordances of each particular game - must all be regarded within the aegis of narrative. the story of a game includes & must be responsive to its form

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Clara Fernandez-Vara

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Feb 18

Yesterday my son painted his face like a clown, and did the same to his grandpa. He decided his clown name was Icky and grandpa was Lucky, then goofed around for a while. I just realized they were playing a kid version of Waiting for Godot.

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Feb 17

Joanne is not going to "lose her livelihood", she has way more money that she can spend until the end of her days. She's using her public position and influence to spread messages that hurt people and supports their discrimination. She should stop to show basic human decency.

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Feb 17

You can add your signature in support of the NYT contributors too.

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Josh Gondelman

@joshgondelman

Feb 15

Many, many New York Times contributors (past and present) have signed this open letter criticizing the NYT's biased coverage of transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people. I am one of them! This letter is worth reading and considering! nytletter.com

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Desarrollo Español de Videojuegos

@dev_es

Feb 14

🔴Se ha publicado la convocatoria 2023 de ayudas a empresas y personas físicas para la creación y el desarrollo de proyectos de videojuego en la

@ComunidadMadrid

🎮Prototipo de videojuegos narrativos 💰Subvención de 25k€ 🗓Plazo: 6 de marzo dev.org.es/es/servicios/a

Film Madrid

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Josie Giles

@HJosephineGiles

Feb 14

I wrote this yesterday to help work through what I was feeling about Brianna Ghey. I'm sharing it in hopes that it helps you.

Elegy for Brianna Ghey

Sister, you are smiling when I meet you,
half a bar of budget chocolate held
between your thumb and middle finger, resting
on the knuckle of your index, so
I think at first you’re serving to the camera
all the fuck off power of your grin.
But no: the eager sun is only melting
a drip of sugar down your wrist. The grass
looks freshly watered. Your brows look freshly plucked.
Sister, we were meant to meet in a pit
of punks, girls to the front. Or meant to march
on Parliament together, our longing lifted
by ten thousand hoarse and hopeful voices.
Or a silver dress that I outgrew
was meant to settle on your shoulders. Or
we were never meant to meet, but stay
safe in distant sisterhood. Sister,
it’s already morning and the dogs of news
are howling at the gate before your blood
has sunk into the earth. The fife and drum.
The column’s inch. The typing has begun.

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My sister, when I call to pass the dead
weight from my heart to hers, says, “The worst
is hoping to hear that it wasn’t—” But when my sisters
walk with ghosts on either side, what odds
does it make: chance or choice, the edge of hatred
finds its mark. Sister, you were born
after I first ringed my eyes with black,
after I first hit the street and tasted
desperation, after womanhood
began to ring her furious alarms
beyond my reach. I wrote a bloody book
before you took a breath. The space you left
cannot be filled, though we, your weeping sisters,
could drown the moon with our grief. Am I no different
from the coursers ripping at your years?

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I turn to words to turn your loss to less
than unspeakable. I too have my devices.
Sister, you are far from the first sister
I’ve had to find a way to grieve—familiar
sorrows sing familiar staves—and you
deserve far better than the anaesthesia
binding my limbs, than vigils, than editing.
Sister, I am sorry. Sister, the power
you taught yourself to make yourself anew
could level kingdoms, but all I wish for you
is life. Sister, this is my small flame.
Sister, I will always carry your name.

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Julia Minamata

@JuliaMinamata

Feb 10

Are you a gamedev (or want to be) but lack of arts training/experience is holding you back? Me &

@ChrisDeLeon

are doing a free, non-ticketed panel w/fantastic devs & lots of advice & info:

Reply here w/ questions for us!

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Chris Bratt

@chrisbratt

Feb 9

Do you have a story that People Make Games might be interested in telling? Get in touch! My email is in my bio. After some exhausting investigative work recently, I'm especially interested in lighter stories, although I'd certainly make an exception to that for the right topic.

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Minovsky

@MinovskyArticle

Feb 8

I don't think anyone who breaks Twitter at the precise start time of a Nintendo Direct could ever hope to understand this website well enough to run it.

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Clara Fernandez-Vara

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Feb 8

This is looking so good!! I have a very soft spot for the card games of

@GreyAlien

and

@BCHezza

♠️♣️♥️♦️

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie

@GreyAlien

Feb 8

Happy #WishlistWednesday ! Tour historic hotspots, silence gossips, and host the season’s most anticipated soiree in Regency Solitaire II. RTs appreciated! Wishlist here: bit.ly/RS2SteamPage

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Feb 7

Because any day is a good day to have Wendy Carlos on my timeline.

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Mel Woods

@intothemelwoods

Feb 6

Love the appreciation for Kim Petras, but she's not the first trans woman ever to win a Grammy, that's Wendy Carlos! Trans synth queen Carlos won 3 Grammys for "Switched-On-Bach" in 1969. She later went on to compose the soundtracks for The Shining and A Clockwork Orange.

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Tiny Protests

@TinyProtests

Feb 7

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@clarafv

Feb 7

Just got my copy on the mail - it's a great read for us media studies types, game studies people, and monster lovers in general. Congratulations,

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It's here and it's out!

My book Player vs. Monster launches today on @mitpress. It's a cultural history and a critique of monsters in games that tries to explain why games need monsters at all and what kind of otherness these monsters represent. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047753/

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Hand Eye Society

@HandEyeSociety

Feb 1

It's time for submissions for the next HES Mixtape for Volume 7! We're looking for games from Black✊🏾 developers, creatives and more, spread the word & send us your games for our bundle! #indiedev #BlackGameDev 🛑 Feb 28th RTs Appreciated!🥰 👇🏾 forms.gle/fiSotPt4hpbYXz

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Walter Chaw 周瑜

@mangiotto

Feb 5

Happiest of birthdays to the incandescent Ida Lupino. Directing films that talked about things you're (still) not supposed to talk about with flair and ferocity. A personal hero - a trailblazer.

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Feb 3

Working from home today so I could prep some readings for next week... right as they start tearing apart the apartment below mine and make all the walls shake.

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Anna Megill

@cynixy

Jan 30

WOW LOOK. It's a real book with a cover and everything now. Amazing ✨

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introduced me to the pipe organ versions of the Monkey Island soundtracks, and now that's what I'm listening to all day because they're THE BEST

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Monkey Island - LeChuck's theme - Pipe organ

I made a version of LeChuck's theme for organ. I suggest that you listen with headphones, to hear the bass better. Please subscribe and watch my other Monkey...

Clara Fernandez-Vara

@clarafv

Feb 1

Fascists come for the books first. Being able to understand others who are not like yourself through their stories is a threat. Believe me, I grew up in a country where they were in power for 40 years.

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Florida Freedom to Read Project

@FLFreedomRead

Jan 31

Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals. This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man. This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks

Clara Fernandez-Vara

@clarafv

Jan 29

Cool history thread for a Sunday afternoon.

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Sarah Nour

@SaCha1689

Jan 28

As a cis female ally who believes #transrightsarehumanrights, I'm tempted to make a thread on trans historical figures to annoy She Who Must Not Be Named & her followers, who are being extra hateful today.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

Jan 28

Tyre Nichols should be alive. Charges alone aren’t justice. Change is. At least 1,176 people were killed by law enforcement last year - a record. Billions in trainings, body cams, and reforms haven’t stopped it. In fact, it’s gotten worse. We must grow out of this cycle together

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I solved the 1/26/2023 New York Times Mini Crossword in 0:18! (Guess it was short enough today ☺️)

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Play The Mini Crossword

All the fun of the larger New York Times Crossword, but you can solve it in seconds.

Clara Fernandez-Vara

@clarafv

Jan 23

Great, today is one of those days when people who know shit about writing suddenly think they’re experts on the craft, and the only thing they can say is “it’s BAD” but not how or why or what would be a better version of it. Your opinions may be loud but uninformed.