Carnivalesque – Green Media Mediography

Steamboat Bill Jr.

The famous final scene of Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill Jr. depicts a small river town being tarnished by a cyclone. Its major achievement is its relation to climate change without being a product of actual environmental threat.

Block’hood

Block’hood lets the player diversify and experiment on the building of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. The player has a plethora of building blocks available to him/her, which all have their ability to create unique neighborhoods when combined in different ways.

Animal Mayhem Games and Nonhuman-Oriented Thinking

Caracciolo, Marco. “Animal Mayhem Games and Nonhuman-Oriented Thinking.” Game Studies 21, no. 1 (2021). http://gamestudies.org/2101/articles/caracciolo A host of recent videogames revolve around animals that wreak havoc on human communities and the urban spaces they live in. After introducing this strand of “animal mayhem games,” my paper links it to recent arguments on human-nonhuman entanglement in

Xēko Mission: Madagascar

Xēko Mission: Madagascar gives the players the objective to create the strongest, most balanced environment. The players can link species with their starting hotspot card in order to battle other players in “Turf Wars” which can be battled out in order to gain “Eco-Points”. The player with the most Eco-Points wins the game. The game can