Stanwixbuster

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Stanley W. Baxton // he/him 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Award-winning narrative game dev NWCDTP-funded PhD on non-commercial game communities + sustainability, BAFTA Breakthrough 2025, ex-Supermassive Games https://stanwixbuster.co.uk/

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16:00 - 16:45 How to make whatever you want and still get attention Stanley W. Baxton, Stanwixbuster
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Max Remskyi [in reply to Stanwixbuster, a link to Racism without Racists] Well, as I see that, it's rather western(mostly America)-specific thing. Would probably be a good read if I wanted to do anything with americas writing wise, because so far it looks as if you were explaining blind man (me) what colour is.
Max Remskyi Why hate Campbell though? He was not creating any "quick tools-boilerplates for authors", but had been looking for the repeating patterns. The only downside is that many consider his studies as the modus operandi, not "curious find". Stanwixbuster take a minute to consider why applying a european mode of storytelling filtered through jung to everything ever written is not that good Max Remskyi Well, he could not do it in any other way. His european experience lense was the only one he had, and if he could re-lieve his life in another culture I do think he would, simply out of his love of the game
Mft Gongo (no subject) - Hello Stanwixbuster,
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Game Studies: A Critical Introduction to the Field by Brendan Keogh, Mahli-Ann Butt, Marcus Carter
The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World by Andreas Malm
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Bluesky post by Stanwixbuster my take on whatever games discourse is happening right now is that you'd get a lot more done if you logged off and actually made those games you say you love so much
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to articulate that beyond jokes at the expense of the medium. Imagine someone presenting a film BAFTA by opening with “I love watching films. I watch them all the time. Movies? Wow. I love movies. How do you make them? Who knows! It’s magic! I don’t know anything about this. Now let’s celebrate people who make movies.”
The "Games Industry" - [] - the
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jesse what the hell are you talking about
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Discord stream The Shaman, the Outsider, and the Diet of Worms: Worldbuilding Through Negative Space Stanley Baxton Stanley has a problem with worldbuilding. He has such a problem, he made a whole game about it, and went on to win Best Experimental Game at last year’s NarraScope showcase. In this talk, Stanley will deconstruct the approach he took to worldbuilding in his project Diet of Worms, offer alternatives to putting everything into a public-access wiki, and show how “subtextual” worldbuilding can be used as a narrative tool in itself. DES WRI FAN ACA [worldbuilding, narrative design, lore]
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
COMPENSATION: This is a fixed-rate contract for the full game script. One project, one agreed sum. Prototype phase is unpaid. Paid work begins once the project is funded.
REQUIREMENTS: 5+ years experience in creative writing 28 years old or older. No exceptions. Strong written prose, demonstrated in portfolio English must be your first language. No exceptions.
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Youtube video: ASMR Gaming 😴 Fortnite Epic Games Fired 1000 People! Gum Chewing 🎮🎧 Controller Sounds + Whispering 💤
Ecogames: Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis Edited ByLaura op de Beke, Joost Raessens, Stefan Werning, Gerald Farca
How to Make Whatever You Want and Still Get Attention In absence of any sort of studio backing, funding grants, publishers, or doing anything the industry tells him to do, Stanley Baxton has managed to develop several award-winning narrative games, and went on to be part of BAFTA Breakthrough 2025 with his game LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST. In this talk, he’s going to break down how he did it, making a case for abandoning the “normal” way to develop games, and how the industry is ignoring vital talent at the fringes.
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Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games By Alenda Y. Chang
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production By Brendan Keogh
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Positive Steam review i need valentine in a way that concerns feminism
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Convention booth with a vertical monitor, showing the game The Shaman, the Outsider, and the Diet of Worms. On the wall behind it is a poster for the game and question prompts about it.
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