Just had a look and couldn’t find a thread for quick, one off questions, so guess I’ll just ask here…
On one of the podcasts Austin mentioned a thread/topic/resource where someone (not sure if it was staff or community) had a list of Animal Crossing/Stardew type games, and had coined a name for the genre.
Does anyone know if I’m remembering this correctly and if-so where that list is as my partner pretty much only plays these games so I’m always trying to find new ones for them!
I don’t know the list but I remember he said it’s by Janine Hawkins @bleatingheart on twitter
https://twitter.com/bleatingheart
(occasional Waypoint contributor, Friends at the Table player and mapmaker)
Fantastic, thanks SBMan. It looks likes the list is a twitter thread starting on June 12th. Didn’t see a name for the genre though so that may have been someone else.
It looks like you found it yourself, but if anyone else is interested, here it is:
I thought I remembered Austin saying that Janine had coined a name for it too, but the closest I could find are a few references to “life sim” in that thread, and to “peaceful life sim” in the Griffin McElroy tweet that Janine quoted at the top of the thread?
I thought it was something more fanciful, but Peaceful Life Sim might have been it. Thanks.
I kinda like “moon-likes”. 
Oh, I’ll jump in here.
Way early in the podcast I remember Austin and I think Danielle mentioning a bunch of books they’ve read/taught from about game design. Does anyone remember what they were? I’m interested in reading more about the theory behind all of it, and I can’t remember any names or authors, or even where in the archives to start digging.
I don’t know that they’re about game design per se, but there are links to some game studies syllabi here:
http://gamestudies101.com/category/game-studies/
for instance this one: https://jenniferwhitson.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/whitson-syllabus-commsgamestudiesdec12.pdf
