Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him)
Critical Games + Tech Researcher 🖥️✒️
@ Intersectional Tech Lab (U. Michigan)
Comms Officer 🎤
@cgsaacej.bsky.social
Writing a book on games and exhaustion that's under contract with Duke University Press!
Find me at rainforestsb.me
- One more week to submit to this wonderful event - gogogogogogogo!
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- I'm in this post and I like it!
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- I am once again reminding you that this conference is great and that you should submit work here - we have some of the most robust hybrid support in the biz, so that anyone, anywhere can join in the festivities! #gamestudies #cfp
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- Here's the abstract :) #gamestudies
- 🚚🚚🚚New article alert! Part of a special issue on games + container technologies, it’s about truckers who play Truck Simulator in their trucks, but also simulation, battlestations, and the logistics of work and play. It's open access, so please take a look 🚚🚚🚚 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 🚚🚚🚚New article alert! Part of a special issue on games + container technologies, it’s about truckers who play Truck Simulator in their trucks, but also simulation, battlestations, and the logistics of work and play. It's open access, so please take a look 🚚🚚🚚 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Maybe biased since I'm helping to organize this, but this is such a wonderful event for anyone doing work in and around games - we welcome submission formats of all sorts and the event is fully hybrid! Please consider submitting something #gamestudies
- 📣✨Call for Papers!📣✨ CGSA 2026 will take place at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec from June 11-14th, 2026. This year’s chosen theme is “On Repeat”. Submissions are due January 7th, 2026 at 11:59 PM PST Full CfP here: gamestudies.ca/conference-c...
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- Ready for Part 2? After much writing and re-writing, I'm thrilled to announce that my first book, "Gaming Exhaustion" (working title) is now under contract with Duke University Press. There are too many people to thank for this in 140 characters or less, but know that you're all so appreciated <3
- Ok here's Part 1: My Finnish postdoc is now my finished postdoc, but I'm thrilled to announce what's next: I'm now a Research Associate at the U of Michigan's School of Information, where I'm proudly working with the Intersectional Tech Lab! ✨🖥️ www.kishonnagray.com/lab-staff Part 2 coming soon!
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- July and August were full of Life Stuff™ and meeting some writing deadlines, but it's looking like I'll have some exciting news to share pretty soon 👀
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- I now have a website! It's pretty bare-bones, but at least it rhymes! I'm hoping to get more stuff on there in the next month. Give it a look if you're so inclined - www.rainforestsb.me
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- It WAS a good one, as predicted - thanks for the writeup Tom!
- This is going to be a good one 😎
- Been too busy running around to do any shoutouts to all the amazing talks, but I've been helping to run a conference! @cgsaacej.bsky.social 2025 is (almost) over and every year it's a reminder of how cool and supportive a scholarly community can be <3 My title slide (cute mode): #gamestudies
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- Rolling in to sunny Turku 🌞 for Nordic Digra 2025! Really excited for our talk exploring what we mean when we say "critical" game studies 🔥 #gamestudies #nordicdigra25
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- 📯PUBLICATION NEWS📯 Very stoked to share this special issue that I co-edited with the world, full of great reflections on the theme of 'Meta' applied to various #GameStudies contexts. A link to the full issue is here, but let's dig in to each of the pieces, shall we? dl.acm.org/toc/games/20...
- Hey #SCMS2025 friends, let's end this out in style 💅. I know many folks have headed home, but I'll be around in some panels today so please flag me down or DM me if you want to chat - I don't make it stateside much these days so it'd be great to connect/catch up ✨!
