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?
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
