That's the highest praise one can get 😀 Thank you so much for your thoughts and presence, and to all of our wonderful participants! #mythgames2025
@alexvandewalle.bsky.social

That's a wrap on #MythGames2025! Sincerely, thanks to everyone who attended and participated - this could not have been a better experience. Everyone was so supportive, active, and inspiring throughout three full days of conferencing. It might've been online, but it didn't feel like it!

Thanks!

Aaand we're now moving to @maciejpaprocki.bsky.social's closing remarks! #MythGames2025

Starting in 10 minutes, our final panel of the conference #MythGames2025: Games and Mythography! We've got several papers that explore the mythographical qualities of video games, as well as the people who play them!

Right now - Myth, Culture and Heritage (2) #MythGames2025, featuring papers on Irishness in games, cultural memory and Black Myth: Wukong, and why there's no God of War set in India!

Starting Day 3 of #MythGames2025 now, with a session on myth and history, featuing papers on so-called "accurate myth", Assassin's Creed, and Pentiment!

Attending day three of #MythGames2025, and getting a few bits printed out to show designer friends at UKGE.

Ended the #MythGames2025 day with the developers of Röki/Mythwrecked (@polygontreehouse.bsky.social), Toward Dawn (@deviserene.bsky.social), Moon Hunters (@kitfoxgames.com), & Never Alone (@elinemedia.bsky.social), which made for an incredible panel discussion.

Thanks to all, and see you tomorrow!

The second day of #MythGames2025 had more intriguing papers.
Not gonna lie there were some bits where I didn't understand the terminology and theoretical concepts used, but I still came out of it with a lot to think about.
The developer Q&A at the end was a great end to the day.

Right now - the 'git gut' panel on mythology & soulslikes #MythGames2025: first, the Souls series as Buddhist 'artless art', and second, myth as praxis in Dark Souls and Black Myth: Wukong

Up now - a panel on Mythological Topologies at #MythGames2025, with papers on the Amduat and Chinese mobile games!

After a fantastic livestream by @valuefnd.bsky.social on Twitch, we're continuing Day 2 of #MythGames2025 with a panel on mythologizing in Cyberpunk, Dragon Age, and on heroic armaments!

Starting in a couple of minutes, our last panel of the day (before the social hour): panel 5 #MythGames2025, "Slavic Mythology", with papers on The Witcher 3 & Resident Evil!

Happening right now - panel 4 #MythGames2025, a deep dive into @supergiantgames.bsky.social's Hades! There are papers on queer disidentification, female storytelling, dark-skinned Patroclus, and motherhood!

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In under 90 minutes from now, I'm chairing Panel 4 of #MythGames2025: "Deep Dive: Supergiant's Hades". Looking forward to it!

Panel 3 #MythGames2025 starting now, "Power and Limits of the Gods", with papers on divine agents & agency in Total War and Age of Mythology!

Time for panel 2 #MythGames2025, "Myth, Culture, and Heritage (1)" with papers on "mythroidvanias", Etruscan ritual in Lex Arcana, and counterintuitive ontologies in Black Myth: Wukong & Tchia!

A great morning session of #MythGames2025, really looking forward to the next one.

Enjoyed the first panel at #MythGames2025 while resisting against Hypnos. 20:36 in KST, after work, before getting into bed.

“Benign Land”: o que a história pode aprender com a mitologia - finisgeekis A frase não é minha, mas de Dom Ford, que acaba de lançar um livro genial sobre mitologia em videogames contemporâneos. Ford não fala em “acabar” no sentido de uma narrativa que chega ao fim (como as ...

Aproveitando a #MythGames2025, escrevi um texto novo explorando 'Benign Land', o jogo surpreendente da @afternature.bsky.social de que terei o prazer de falar mais durante o congresso.

Enjoying #MythGames2025 today (and until Saturday).

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Mythological Game Studies conference starting now! #MythGames2025

Starting with our first panel, "People, Emotions, and Mythological Games" #MythGames2025

Papers on personal myth and Tchia, the therapeutic power of mythology & games, and a queer close reading of Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical!