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danielvella.bsky.social
Director & Senior Lecturer at Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta // Narrative designer with Mighty Boards (Posthuman Saga, Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan) // Organizing DiGRA 2025 in Malta // Debut novel out 2026!
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Travelling to #DiGRA25 with family? We'll be offering childcare services at the conference venue! Details and registration form here: digraconference2025.org/conference-c...

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Man, I can't wait for Sufjan Stevens to reissue Illinois with a new song about the Chicago pope

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ChatGPT might be destroying education, but on the plus side it's losing hundreds of billions of dollars with no realistic profit model in sight AND it's hastening climate change.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

The moment you begin to fathom the sheer scale of most Western countries' defense budgets, it becomes crystal clear (1) what a drop in the ocean all the devastating cuts to education, research and public services are, and as a result (2) the fact that these cuts are ideological, not necessary.

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In 2021 I visited this Naples restaurant; the ragu' was so transcendental it reduced us to blubbering wrecks. It's just found itself in a firestorm for standing up to Zionists annoyed it displayed an anti-genocide message, so if you're in the area, give them all your money. tinyurl.com/4zhc4fwv

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Enforcing the gender binary🤝Committing imperialist violence

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

There is no end to the violence of the rogue settler-colonial state, or to its disregard for humanitarian principles or international law: now it's right on my doorstep, and the Maltese government should do the right thing and offer aid. timesofmalta.com/article/gaza...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

What a weird, distasteful article. First half: we asked women why they don't use ChatGPT, and they highlighted many valid issues like lack of accuracy and personal connection, etc. Second half: it must be because women lack confidence with technology! www.bbc.com/news/busines...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

📖My book is out! My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available. In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social doi.org/10.1515/9783...

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

Hey folks! Quick reminder that you have up until April 24th to submit your idea to our DIGRA 2025 workshop on trans and queer game studies! Spread the word. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

It's a sunny day in Kraków, perfect to sit with some lovely pu'er tea and @gua-le-ni.com's new dystopian detective novel.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

#QueenBoat is out. It is a #visualnovel inspired by real events that happened in Cairo, Egypt, where 52 #gay men were arrested and tortured for no reason other than a political agenda. #LGBTQIA #LGBTI #LGBT #homosexual #lgbtqcommunity #queergames #indiegame #indiedev #TrailerTuesday #IndieGameDev

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Israel has killed more journalists in Gaza since October 2023 than in any other conflict in modern history — including World War II, the Vietnam War, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan combined. Source: Brown University’s Costs of War Project

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Shall we keep pretending these Ivy League universities are the standard-setting institutions for global scholarship? Or do we accept the evidence that they are reactionary, conservative structures, all too eager to collaborate with a fascist administration? www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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One week left to grab the early bird registration rates for DiGRA 2025! digraconference2025.org/conference-r...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

To check if any of my published work has been used to train Meta AI, I had to make an exception to my boycott of the publication that had published articles saying it was legally okay for Israel to kill children. Everything is compromised.

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

Graduation day, a yearly reminder that I love my job because not only do we have amazing students but also where else would I be able to hand out university degrees that have this written on them @indigitalgames.bsky.social

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

At the risk of sounding like a "Roman Empire guy" (oh God), it's been a month since I visited the buried chambers of Nero's Domus Aurea in Rome, and it's still marked in my mind. Layers of time, endurance and decay, the transcendence of beauty inseparable from the oppressive tyranny of wealth.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Ah yes, the three genders

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

Details and calls for all eighteen DiGRA 2025 workshops are up on the website! digraconference2025.org/calls-worksh...

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

The DiGRA 2025 registration portal is open! Early bird registration closes April 4th, so don't leave it to the last minute! digraconference2025.org/conference-r...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

The DiGRA 2025 registration portal is open! Early bird registration closes April 4th, so don't leave it to the last minute! digraconference2025.org/conference-r...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Watched The Last Laugh (1924), one of the greatest of all silent films, with my Games and Narrative class. Some trepidation re what Gen Z game kids would make of a 101-year-old film, but they loved it & wanted to sit and talk about it for a full hour afterwards.

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment