Clara Fernandez-Vara
NYU Game Center faculty & Narrative design & game writing at Fiction Control. Media scholar, cinephile, puzzle head, mystery wrangler.
https://clarafv.com
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- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraPreorder Now! - Oracle of the Divine - Around the Sun: Stories and Symbols from Across the World I’ve started compiling a list of *some* of the places you can order these from World Wide! ➡️ www.yoshiyoshitani.com/oracle-of-th... Let me know if there is a country you’d like me to look up/add
- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraThis is brilliant and timely but also interesting. The play 'Sir Thomas Moore' was actually by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle but was later revised by other writers, including this bravura section attributed (with some evidence) to Shakespeare. An early example of script doctoring.
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraDo I know any South Asian game writers/narrative designers looking for a full-time contract?
- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-Vara❄️ Update: The GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ will be published soon - we just sent a proof to the authors. 400 pages - 100k+ words - 118 authors - including the writers from several well-beloved games and major franchises. If you want to be notified when it releases, you can add your name below!
- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraAs you may know, we are running a conference on games, play, and climate futures in May at the ITU Copenhagen: playingfutures.today Some news: the deadline for abstracts has been extended to February 20th. Now you have no excuses left not to submit!
- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraBLACK GAME DEVELOPERS, WRITERS, ARTISTS AND CREATIVES AT LARGE I NEED YOU TO BE LOUD THIS MONTH*. I NEED YOU TO SHARE YOUR WORK LIKE YOU WILL DIE OTHERWISE, DO NOT BE PRECIOUS ABOUT ABOUT IT *This message also applies to every other month of the year, but the extra attention should be leveraged
- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-Varaa short piece called Potential Foreigner. a piece on the question "where are you from?". audio and written versions below: unaminhkavanagh.com/writing-pote... #writing
- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraWe happen to have a few extra passes, so @iftechfoundation.org is doing an IFTF x GDC Pass Scholarship Program! Check out this link for more info: intfiction.org/t/iftf-x-gdc...
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- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-Varai wrote about mothership.blog for @theguardian.com today by the way. thanks so much to @mackeza.bsky.social for the opportunity to tell more people about mothership and what we are doing with the site <3 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...
- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraSubmit your narrative games to the Showcase! We want your cool games! Deadline Jan 31st. #interactivefiction #narrativegames #NarraScope
- The original version of this speech said “Fuck the empire.” #andor
- "There is a darkness reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow, and now it’s here. It’s here and it’s not visiting anymore. It wants to stay. The Empire is a disease that thrives in darkness, it is never more alive than when we sleep." www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaKr...
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- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraTengo la fortuna de participar con un capítulo sobre la imagen interactiva jugable y compartir plantel con tanta gente guapa e interesante. Es el libro que me hubiera gustado leer cuando empecé. #GameStudies #libro #book #ImagenInteractivaJugable #InteractivePlayableImage
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- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraMark your calendars! The 3rd Annual Thinky Awards are on February 4th! 🎉 thinkygames.com/news/join-us...
- Happy to see Sinners and Frankenstein being recognized during award season. Horror helps us tackle what makes us afraid, hits us in our very soul, and gets us through times of crisis. Good horror is political and should be uncomfortable beyond blood and guts. Long live horror!
- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-Vara📡 Signal blasting for new followers: I wanna do a lil intro abt ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social b/c we got an important fundraiser coming up in a few weeks. It's a free, open-access journal dedicated to game history, and if you love games, here's why you should care 🕹️🎲🀄🎯
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I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays - The world is crap and I can't fix it, but I hope this gives you a smile.
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- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraHappy Weekend! My tiny Over the Garden Wall adventure game has hit 10k plays on itch.io🎉! It's FREE to play https://juliaminamata.itch.io/otgw -- A nice way to spend a cozy half hour or so indoors. ❄️ There's also a walkthrough, no worries about getting stuck!
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- Honestly, they could have paid me 1% of what they spent on this AI crap as a consultant fee and I could have told them that this specific thing would happen, and they could have saved money and provide better service.
- This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...
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- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraOn this day one year ago, #DavidLynch left us for places wonderful and strange. Rest in Peace.
- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraHey Boston-area folks! If you're around, come say hi to me! I'm chatting with folks about game writing, story, and other cool stuff on February 19th
- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraA public demo of the banned 1995 CD-ROM ‘Forbidden Solitaire’ is being leaked TOMORROW on #Steam. Authorities advise gamers to exercise extreme caution. Campaign groups, such as ‘Justice for Timmy,’ go further: urging players to delete all traces of the software if they are tempted to install it.
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- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraI've been commissioned to write a piece about games based on real places that changed peoples' perception of that place or had some kind of local impact - are you a dev who made a game like this? Or are you a player who has a story about a game that inspired you to visit somewhere? Let me know!
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- YES YES YES. This is also why we should talk about players rather than consumers in game dev. We need to change the discourse so that we can start thinking about new sustainable ways of being a game creator.
- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraDiscord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
- "There is a darkness reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow, and now it’s here. It’s here and it’s not visiting anymore. It wants to stay. The Empire is a disease that thrives in darkness, it is never more alive than when we sleep." www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaKr...
- As a mother and a professor, it’s exhausting and painful to teach and support young people for the future, when the horizon looks dystopian. Our only option is to keep working, resisting and believing that we can rebuild and create a better world.
- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraWorked on this slowly throughout the last month. Lots of incredibly unique games to explore from @amazefest.bsky.social. My favourite part of this was adding the flamingo confetti explosion.
- New Exhibit:Play list! 𝐀 𝐌𝐀𝐙𝐄. 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 Created by @farfama.bsky.social Features all the winners from @amazefest.bsky.social Arthouse Games Festival from 2012 - 2025. Includes extensive tags so you can filter by award, year, theme, artstyle, and more! exhibitplay.com/amaze-berlin...
- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-Varafriends! acquaintances! help! i'm looking to hire a game designer (living in the Netherlands) to help build games in The Hidden Folks Universe, starting with a sequel to the indie hit game Hidden Folks. know someone who's a good fit? pls forward this, ty! hiddenfolks.com/job-opening/...
- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-Vara"GenAI is the futu--
- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraKnives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
- Úna-Minh is brilliant and a delight to work with. Hire her!
- Visual metaphor for the way GenAI is being used?
- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraNORAD Santa tracker is Woke
- From the people who called the protagonist "Guybrush" because it was the name of the sprite file in Deluxe Paint (guy.brush) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guybrus...
- I'm convinced that the current obsession of the US government with annexing Greenland comes from people who have learned about global politics playing Risk (the board game). Just look at the map. (Image from Wikimedia commons) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ri...
- Yesterday I did some last minute Christmas shopping, and I was reminded how shop aisles in the US are also classified in reductionistic, gendered sections. If you want to buy something that doesn't fit gender stereotypes or find a gift for an LGBTQ friend, there's nothing or you have to pay extra.
- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraThe thing about the claim that AI can speed up game production cycles is that game production cycles are not generally bottlenecked by the ability to make assets, and especially not low-quality replaceable assets
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- One of the selling points of Professor Layton is precisely that its design and and art are almost artisanal. Here come people who don't understand this basic fact and will kill off the series.
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- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraI’ve been in game dev for 26 years and I can’t remember any other time where a specific tech was being insistently and persistently pushed on devs as a group in the public sphere. Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?
- This is a symptom of how broken academia is. The goal is to keep publishing papers nobody reads, at a pace that can interfere with rigorous work. Scientific papers equate volume of publication with quality, and now all academics fields are trapped in a rat race of poor contributions to their field.
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- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraLately I've been feeling so deeply exhausted about how every single creative person is wasting so much time thinking about and arguing about how this useless dogshit doesn't work and can never work; so I gotta say, seeing players overwhelmingly understand that too makes me SO happy and encouraged
- everyone dislikes genai in games, but kids and story-focused players the most. sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again. quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...
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- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-Vara"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin
- Reposted by Clara Fernandez-VaraThe ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
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- This morning is another loud reminder that guns are dangerous and they should be regulated. Yet again. Will those who have the power to change things actually do something? If things didn't change 13 years ago to the day, they won't now.
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