Mark R Johnson

@mrj_games

Lecturer in Digital Cultures | Researching Twitch streaming, esports, playbour, game monetisation & consumption | Ultima Ratio Regum dev | 🇪🇺 🇦🇺

Brit in Sydney, Australia
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Joined August 2011
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    27 Dec 2020

    Five years isn't so bad, right? Ultima Ratio Regum 0.8 released! NPCs, faces, clothing, speech, schedules, and a million other things.

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    Feb 23

    Happy to announce the 4th round of the annual Settlement Generation Challenge in . You can participate and build an algorithm that makes a Settlement. Deadline: 31st of May, 2021 More Info: Please share!

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    Feb 22

    CfP: British Digital Games Research Association Conference 2021: Politics and Games - Online July 20th - 23rd. Full Call for Papers here

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  4. Mar 3

    Ultima Ratio Regum 0.8.2 released! A ton of bug-fixes and a host of new or expanded features, and including the return of generated crypts, graves, sarcophagi, etc.

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  5. Feb 25

    LERP LERP

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  6. Feb 23

    At long last, I can teach some Twitch!

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  7. Feb 15

    💡New paper!💡 I wrote about playbour in Super Mario Maker via the design and play of ridiculously hard (whether "kaizo" or "troll") levels, particularly re: "masocore" gaming and gaming as a craft. Journal here: Pre-print here:

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  8. Feb 14

    Twitter! What's that recent game? 2020 (or 2019?), indie / art game, emotional themes (about death?), you're trying to fight off a creature of some sort I think, it has a short name like "Vim" or "Gax" or something, striking art style, well-received... anyone?

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  9. Feb 13

    Ultima Ratio Regum 0.8.1 bug-fix released, including various new features for exploration / discovery!

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  10. Feb 11

    💡New paper!💡 and I wrote about the "gambling turn" in game monetization, particularly the cultural and industrial shifts within game production that have brought us to the present point. Journal here: , pre-print here:

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    Feb 9

    Having a blast at ! So glad I got to present my preliminary findings on community perceptions of trash talk in FPS esports Great talks also about esports and live streaming from and 👏😃

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  12. Feb 9

    I must also express my disgust that I now notice my copy of PowerPoint put a zigzag red line under "labour"

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  13. Feb 9

    Speaking at in just a minute!

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  14. Feb 9

    I just wrote the term "dystopian cyberpunk" in a paper and it struck me as very tautological, and in turn made me think: has there ever been... utopian cyberpunk? Is there such a thing? Is that possible? Or am I not thinking of an obvious book/game/whatever?

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  15. Feb 7

    I have finally listened to Austin, and yes, this is one of the best games I have ever played. Amazing, cryptic, baffling, revelatory, magical, fascinating, and moving.

    Replying to @patrickklepek
    outer wilds Outer Wilds OUTER WILDS OUTERWILDS
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    Feb 5

    A github repository of demo scene bitmap fonts. Cool.

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  17. Jan 20

    With its VILE OVIPOSITOR NO DOUBT

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  18. Jan 20

    Or it might have stung me. I am unclear.

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  19. Jan 20

    Well, it took 15 months of living in Australia, but it finally happened: SOMETHING BIT ME. And I don't know what it was. I will be sure to keep you all updated as I undergo frothing psychosis, or the eggs hatch, or whatever

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  20. Retweeted
    Jan 20

    they forgot to turn up shadow quality at the capitol a little unprofessional imo

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  21. Retweeted
    Jan 15

    Time to check out 🌱 Mixed Initiatives 🌱 A new group blog by several folks in games & computational media My 1st post is up: Apologia for Game Wikis—1k words on "games as ludic mystery", the joy of feeling bewildered, & wiki'ing as a social mode of play

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