soybeeftacos: I’ve been reticent to write publicly about Netrunner since I was booted from NIS
soybeeftacos: I’ve been reticent to write publicly about Netrunner since I was booted from NISEI, but I can’t deny that I’m finding my way back into the game after a long while away. I guess I’m back in? In the past few months: I contributed to an upcoming, not-so-secret reskinning project that includes significantly more urchins, libertines, and perfume than Netrunner. More on it as it develops, but I’m thrilled to have been a (paid!) consulting game designer on this fun project. I had another piece on Netrunner published this fall, entitled “Exploring the Sporting Metagames of Android: Netrunner.” This was a weird piece to write — I started it and completed most of it in the week before FFG officially announced their shuttering of the game (so, early June, 2018). Then NISEI started rolling, and I rewrote a lot of it over the subsequent year. It’s in a special issue about “the sporting mindset” and I discuss Netrunner from the lenses of fan communities, competitive gaming, money, and memes. I started streaming Netrunner at http://twitch.tv/s_c_d — well, to be fair, I streamed once. And I lost all of my games, making me reticent to do it ever again. But I will, eventually! Maybe? I bought a ticket for PAX Unplugged next week, and signed up for the East Coast Championships. There are only a handful of spots left if you’re somehow reading this, going to PAX Unplugged and feel like spending all day Saturday playing a ded gaem. I’ve never liked the Penny Arcade bros and have always been wary of their community, but I’d like to play in one Netrunner event in 2019, and this seems like a wonderful one. I decided to offer a course on Tabletop Games this coming summer at the University of Virginia where, for the first time ever, I plan to actually teach Netrunner. It will be part of a larger class on understanding “analog games” in game studies, but I’m still giddy at the idea that I’ve figured out a way to slide this game into a course. Anyway, welcome to my nineteenth Rebirth in the game. I’ll try to post on this thing more regularly in the future, assuming I don’t get sick of the game and/or shunned again. I’m going to reblog this, first for the cool Rebirth art by Hannah Christenson, which I may or may not have shared before, second for sdc managing to get teaching netrunner into his job (kudos!), and third for him being a generally cool dude. -- source link
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