Hey there!

Ah-ehm. So, everything seems in order, I feel ready now, so I’m starting. I guess.

Hello everyone. My name is Fede and this is Virgo Rising. Before raising unnecessary expectations, let’s make one thing clear. Despite the name, this publication is not about astrology. For that, I advise you check out that famous Twitter account that mixes poetry and astrology. Won’t tell you the future, but it’s still good for a laugh with friends (tested).

Virgo Rising is a small publication about games! That’s the main topic I’ll be writing about. I am currently a lecturer at Goldsmiths in London and I run a program in Independent Games and Playable Experience Design (have a look here if you want to know more). For this reason I spend quite some time thinking about games and I thought it was nice to have a space where I can put my ideas in a more structured way while at the same time avoiding to get too much into the academic language and structure.

That’s what Virgo Rising is for. I want to share with you my thoughts about games and game design. I’m trying to work in the area of games anthropology (will expand on that in the articles I’m going to put here) and I’m extremely interested in personal games and games that have a deep expressive value. My approach in teaching is wildly multidisciplinary, and based on how different art forms can achieve expressive values in different ways and how those techniques can be integrated into games. I also see games as a form of language, maybe the oldest we have ever used, as humans.

I hope you feel at home here. Let’s talk games ❤