Archive

2024  2

November  1

The Rule Book (review)

November 26, 2024 · 7 min · 1427 words · Jonne Arjoranta

August  1

Clarifying Interpretive Challenges

August 29, 2024 · 3 min · 555 words · Jonne Arjoranta

2021  3

December  1

My Workflow in 2021

December 22, 2021 · 4 min · 704 words · Jonne Arjoranta

March  1

No, Wittgenstein Didn’t Think You Can’t Define Games

March 4, 2021 · 4 min · 767 words · Jonne Arjoranta

February  1

Player Typologies in Role-Playing Games

February 19, 2021 · 6 min · 1170 words · Jonne Arjoranta

2020  7

September  1

What Was GamerGate Really About?

September 4, 2020 · 4 min · 694 words · Jonne Arjoranta

August  1

My Workflow in 2020

August 27, 2020 · 10 min · 2077 words · Jonne Arjoranta

June  2

Island Utopia

June 24, 2020 · 4 min · 830 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Exploring Gendered Computing

June 5, 2020 · 1 min · 48 words · Jonne Arjoranta

May  1

Turning Everything into Paperclips

May 14, 2020 · 4 min · 720 words · Jonne Arjoranta

January  2

Internet Research is Hard

January 19, 2020 · 6 min · 1156 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Eclipse Phase Second Edition Review

January 6, 2020 · 11 min · 2178 words · Jonne Arjoranta

2019  8

September  1

Papers that Changed My Mind

September 24, 2019 · 4 min · 767 words · Jonne Arjoranta

July  3

Why You Shouldn’t Read Your Academic Talks

July 30, 2019 · 4 min · 757 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Role-Playing Game Studies: Transmedia Foundations

July 9, 2019 · 3 min · 530 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Replacing the Fairphone

July 8, 2019 · 4 min · 797 words · Jonne Arjoranta

June  2

Migrating to Minimal Mistakes

June 27, 2019 · 2 min · 385 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Things Best Expressed by Games

June 10, 2019 · 2 min · 380 words · Jonne Arjoranta

April  1

Pepe the Frog at Kiasma

April 17, 2019 · 4 min · 660 words · Jonne Arjoranta

March  1

Magical Computers

March 6, 2019 · 2 min · 353 words · Jonne Arjoranta

2018  10

November  1

Common Problems in Writing About Games

November 17, 2018 · 3 min · 486 words · Jonne Arjoranta

October  1

Misusing Emotes

October 16, 2018 · 2 min · 274 words · Jonne Arjoranta

September  1

How to Build a Sustainable Academic Commons?

September 14, 2018 · 6 min · 1088 words · Jonne Arjoranta

July  1

Indiewebifying My Website

July 23, 2018 · 4 min · 782 words · Jonne Arjoranta

June  2

Trying to Think Through Content Warnings

June 29, 2018 · 8 min · 1599 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Why is Mastodon Growing?

June 2, 2018 · 4 min · 794 words · Jonne Arjoranta

May  1

Writing Academic Texts

May 11, 2018 · 4 min · 816 words · Jonne Arjoranta

April  1

Context Collapse and Mastodon

April 7, 2018 · 3 min · 498 words · Jonne Arjoranta

March  1

Intentionally Bad Interfaces

March 6, 2018 · 2 min · 297 words · Jonne Arjoranta

January  1

Can Games Really be Separated into Core and Shell?

January 31, 2018 · 3 min · 456 words · Jonne Arjoranta

2017  11

December  1

Building the Yearbook of Finnish Game Studies

December 22, 2017 · 8 min · 1504 words · Jonne Arjoranta

October  2

Surveillance Capitalism, Google and the Power of Defaults

October 30, 2017 · 3 min · 464 words · Jonne Arjoranta

The Most Complicated Way to Build a Site

October 16, 2017 · 9 min · 1825 words · Jonne Arjoranta

August  2

The Google Memo and Gendered Computing

August 9, 2017 · 4 min · 852 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Surveillance Capitalism - A Case Study

August 2, 2017 · 5 min · 1030 words · Jonne Arjoranta

July  1

Revolution in the Age of Social Media & Twitter and Tear Gas

July 11, 2017 · 4 min · 750 words · Jonne Arjoranta

May  2

Living with Algorithms

May 14, 2017 · 3 min · 613 words · Jonne Arjoranta

The Future of Academic Networking

May 7, 2017 · 3 min · 466 words · Jonne Arjoranta

April  1

How to Change the World with Memes

April 13, 2017 · 11 min · 2246 words · Jonne Arjoranta

March  1

Everything is a Computer

March 24, 2017 · 2 min · 350 words · Jonne Arjoranta

February  1

The Age of Bullshit

February 1, 2017 · 3 min · 490 words · Jonne Arjoranta

2016  5

October  1

What’s Hybrid in Hybrid Games?

October 5, 2016 · 3 min · 539 words · Jonne Arjoranta

June  1

Halat hisar

June 30, 2016 · 3 min · 628 words · Jonne Arjoranta

April  2

Counterplay 2016

April 17, 2016 · 2 min · 402 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Choose How The World Will End: False Choices in Videogames

April 13, 2016 · 4 min · 651 words · Jonne Arjoranta

February  1

Nights Black Agents and Zalozhniy Quartet

February 12, 2016 · 4 min · 730 words · Jonne Arjoranta

2015  6

November  1

Shared Playful Politics

November 16, 2015 · 8 min · 1513 words · Jonne Arjoranta

May  2

Adult Play, Day 2

May 12, 2015 · 6 min · 1093 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Adult Play, Day 1

May 11, 2015 · 6 min · 1070 words · Jonne Arjoranta

April  2

Real-Time Hermeneutics, the Book

April 19, 2015 · 1 min · 78 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Things That Can Only be Expressed with Games

April 2, 2015 · 10 min · 2063 words · Jonne Arjoranta

January  1

0 Unread Emails: Rewards in Deus Ex: Human Revolution

January 13, 2015 · 5 min · 962 words · Jonne Arjoranta

2014  10

November  1

Jekyll

November 25, 2014 · 1 min · 193 words · Jonne Arjoranta

October  2

GamerGate and Language

October 26, 2014 · 4 min · 801 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Gamer Identity

October 8, 2014 · 4 min · 649 words · Jonne Arjoranta

August  1

Surveillance in Online Games

August 25, 2014 · 5 min · 906 words · Jonne Arjoranta

June  1

On Eugene Goostman, The Turing Test and The Chinese Room

June 9, 2014 · 9 min · 1853 words · Jonne Arjoranta

April  1

Critical Evaluation of Game Studies

April 30, 2014 · 6 min · 1118 words · Jonne Arjoranta

February  3

Free-To-Play

February 27, 2014 · 4 min · 732 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Real, Fictive and Virtual

February 8, 2014 · 4 min · 703 words · Jonne Arjoranta

First Deploy With Octopress

February 8, 2014 · 1 min · 145 words · Jonne Arjoranta

January  1

Dissertation Summary

January 29, 2014 · 5 min · 893 words · Jonne Arjoranta

2013  13

November  2

Computers Run on Metaphors

November 9, 2013 · 5 min · 905 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Meaning Effects in Video Games, Talk

November 2, 2013 · 12 min · 2382 words · Jonne Arjoranta

October  1

Understanding Player Interpretation: An Embodied Approach

October 3, 2013 · 10 min · 2001 words · Jonne Arjoranta

August  1

Journals in Game Studies

August 13, 2013 · 1 min · 95 words · Jonne Arjoranta

June  2

PanoptiCorp, part 2: When Now Is Too Late

June 24, 2013 · 4 min · 799 words · Jonne Arjoranta

PanoptiCorp, part 1: the Soul of a Corper

June 17, 2013 · 5 min · 917 words · Jonne Arjoranta

May  1

Ingress as a portrayal of American politics

May 31, 2013 · 1 min · 130 words · Jonne Arjoranta

April  1

Gamified apps and tools

April 19, 2013 · 1 min · 130 words · Jonne Arjoranta

March  2

Jeepform scenario, iteration 2

March 29, 2013 · 1 min · 202 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Embodied Control Schemes

March 28, 2013 · 6 min · 1074 words · Jonne Arjoranta

February  2

Google is Building an Ontology

February 28, 2013 · 2 min · 377 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Neural Correlates of Meaning-Making

February 23, 2013 · 2 min · 331 words · Jonne Arjoranta

January  1

Meaning Effects in Video Games

January 12, 2013 · 2 min · 270 words · Jonne Arjoranta

2012  6

November  6

Advanced Dungeons & Discourse

November 19, 2012 · 2 min · 392 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Interactive fiction

November 14, 2012 · 2 min · 259 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Metaphoric Rules in Role-Playing Games

November 12, 2012 · 3 min · 472 words · Jonne Arjoranta

SMBC, Frame Semantics and Political Speech

November 7, 2012 · 2 min · 254 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Fall 2012

November 5, 2012 · 1 min · 107 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Mage: The Re-Awakening

November 5, 2012 · 3 min · 574 words · Jonne Arjoranta

2011  9

October  1

Gender in Apocalypse World

October 25, 2011 · 3 min · 430 words · Jonne Arjoranta

September  2

Dungeons & Discourse

September 23, 2011 · 4 min · 665 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Post-Mortem: Tyhjyys joka meidät yhdistää (The emptiness that binds us)

September 18, 2011 · 4 min · 819 words · Jonne Arjoranta

August  3

About Randomness in Role-Playing Games

August 26, 2011 · 4 min · 690 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Crowded gaming

August 24, 2011 · 1 min · 113 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Ropecon and a new Finnish fantasy role-playing game

August 1, 2011 · 1 min · 125 words · Jonne Arjoranta

May  1

Games in galleries

May 9, 2011 · 1 min · 56 words · Jonne Arjoranta

April  1

IJRP issue 2

April 20, 2011 · 1 min · 51 words · Jonne Arjoranta

March  1

Pervasive Games

March 31, 2011 · 10 min · 1928 words · Jonne Arjoranta

2010  12

September  1

Art history of games

September 7, 2010 · 1 min · 35 words · Jonne Arjoranta

August  2

Portaikko (Stairway)

August 24, 2010 · 1 min · 48 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Gaming over great distances

August 7, 2010 · 2 min · 419 words · Jonne Arjoranta

July  1

Games may be art after all

July 5, 2010 · 1 min · 49 words · Jonne Arjoranta

May  2

For all I know, you’re the rat

May 27, 2010 · 2 min · 336 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Game ideas

May 20, 2010 · 1 min · 80 words · Jonne Arjoranta

March  1

Master’s thesis & Changing the world with games (not related)

March 22, 2010 · 2 min · 260 words · Jonne Arjoranta

February  3

Politics in FPS-games

February 12, 2010 · 2 min · 318 words · Jonne Arjoranta

While on the topic of games as art…

February 5, 2010 · 1 min · 64 words · Jonne Arjoranta

All the shades of gray, but no…

February 1, 2010 · 1 min · 147 words · Jonne Arjoranta

January  2

Are Role-Playing Games Art?

January 29, 2010 · 2 min · 412 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Methodological contemplations

January 27, 2010 · 4 min · 821 words · Jonne Arjoranta

2009  12

December  1

The Practice of Theory: Seminar of Culture Studies

December 12, 2009 · 2 min · 298 words · Jonne Arjoranta

October  2

Defining games

October 26, 2009 · 2 min · 290 words · Jonne Arjoranta

(a)Games

October 16, 2009 · 2 min · 339 words · Jonne Arjoranta

September  1

The Player of Games

September 8, 2009 · 2 min · 316 words · Jonne Arjoranta

August  1

Roadtrip the rpg

August 31, 2009 · 2 min · 227 words · Jonne Arjoranta

May  1

The Mountain Witch

May 5, 2009 · 2 min · 219 words · Jonne Arjoranta

April  1

Seminar paper

April 18, 2009 · 2 min · 234 words · Jonne Arjoranta

March  2

Political games

March 18, 2009 · 3 min · 573 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Using role-play as a research tool

March 3, 2009 · 5 min · 882 words · Jonne Arjoranta

February  2

Liquid Crystal

February 26, 2009 · 2 min · 222 words · Jonne Arjoranta

On the sociology of games

February 18, 2009 · 2 min · 241 words · Jonne Arjoranta

January  1

New year, new ideas

January 5, 2009 · 2 min · 401 words · Jonne Arjoranta

2008  9

October  1

Between Heaven and Hell

October 9, 2008 · 3 min · 467 words · Jonne Arjoranta

July  1

Your Eminence

July 29, 2008 · 3 min · 545 words · Jonne Arjoranta

May  1

Why games?

May 20, 2008 · 4 min · 648 words · Jonne Arjoranta

April  1

Horror & Philosophy

April 10, 2008 · 4 min · 852 words · Jonne Arjoranta

February  3

Of theory and practice

February 28, 2008 · 2 min · 365 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Huizinga and play

February 20, 2008 · 2 min · 320 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Master’s Thesis

February 1, 2008 · 1 min · 188 words · Jonne Arjoranta

January  2

ReNutopia

January 17, 2008 · 1 min · 179 words · Jonne Arjoranta

By train, for a change

January 7, 2008 · 4 min · 767 words · Jonne Arjoranta

2007  12

December  1

Computers and role-play

December 3, 2007 · 2 min · 251 words · Jonne Arjoranta

November  2

Apocalypse & Gehenna

November 25, 2007 · 1 min · 12 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Writing characters

November 7, 2007 · 1 min · 202 words · Jonne Arjoranta

October  1

Thesis, an update

October 31, 2007 · 2 min · 264 words · Jonne Arjoranta

September  2

Tähti

September 28, 2007 · 2 min · 274 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Thesis

September 14, 2007 · 2 min · 281 words · Jonne Arjoranta

August  2

Nutopia

August 28, 2007 · 2 min · 297 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Ropecon

August 24, 2007 · 2 min · 403 words · Jonne Arjoranta

July  3

Dogmatic manifestos

July 18, 2007 · 4 min · 770 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Chronicle coming to an end

July 12, 2007 · 3 min · 557 words · Jonne Arjoranta

Convention problems

July 10, 2007 · 2 min · 314 words · Jonne Arjoranta

June  1

Stop (stop) saying immersion!

June 25, 2007 · 2 min · 241 words · Jonne Arjoranta

2006  1

November  1

The 10 Commandments of Game Master

November 7, 2006 · 2 min · 323 words · Jonne Arjoranta