Stephanie Harkin

My book is out! 💗 Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames is a 6-year-long labour of love for young adult stories, teen heroines in videogames and unnoticed girly game histories. Thank you @livvy.itch.io for the beautiful cover! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Hey wow it's award-winning journalist @maddie-b-a.bsky.social interrogating the current state of girl games on our cool website Featuring smart insights from everyone's favourite professional girl game expert, @saharkin.bsky.social! thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/the-...

Call for Papers to share your work at DiGRAA 2027, hosted at RMIT, Melbourne in Feb! digraa.org/post/cfp-dig...

The latest Video Game History Hour podcast talks to Dr. Stephanie Harkin, lecturer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, about her research on video games in girls’ lifestyle magazines like Girl Gamer & Total Girl: gamehistory.org/episode-141-...

Super lucky to have Katie Roots for the next RMIT Games Talk! Katie is Marketing Manager at Hipster Whale and has 10+ years in game dev, user acqisition + more See you there! 🗓️ Tuesday Sept 16 🕛 3:30pm–4:30pm 📍 RMIT City Campus, Building 80, Level 6, Room 5

New addition to our digital library... the complete run of Imagine Town Magazine, a promo publication from Ubisoft to promote their line of games for girls We believe this is the first (and hopefully not last) mention of Keke Palmer in our collection archive.gamehistory.org/folder/61871...

Just recorded an episode of the Video Game History Hour where we did a vintage "What Pokemon are you?" quiz from an Australian girl's magazine I got Skitty

Come along to the next Industry Talk with @osaurusstudios.bsky.social Maddy Clute! Maddy will share insights on going for grants, leading a small studio, and working on Aus gothic/ true crime-inspired Call of the Golden of Valley! TUE Aug 26, 3:30–4:30pm City Campus, Building 80, Lvl 6, Room 5

The next RMIT Games Industry Talk is this Tuesday August 12! Excited to hear from Alayna Cole's experience across game design, academia and as DEI Manager at Sledgehammer Games! 🗓️ Tuesday August 12 ⏰ 3:30–4:30pm 📍 RMIT City Campus, Building 80, Level 6, Room 5 Free & open event, no registration

The Games Industry Talk Series is back for 2025! 🎉 No registration required.

Also at #DiGRA25, Stephanie Harkin gave a great talk on representations of gaming in lifestyle magazines for girls. With a great shout out to the Video Game History Foundation! @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social

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BIG congratulations to Andy Eng for winning the 2024–25 ACMI + RMIT Games Prize for Directing and Programming the group project DEADLINES. Now in its 6th year, the Games prize is awarded to a graduating student from RMIT's Games Program for exploring the medium's artistic potential. Congrats!

ACMI + RMIT Audience Lab is back Saturday June 7 ✨ www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu4Y...

A major update for dating simulation game Love and Deepspace has furrowed brows – it now includes a period tracker.

Carving Out Your Space In The Melbourne Games Industry. We spoke to recent game dev graduates about job prospects, their thoughts on the industry and hopes for the future. FEATURE https://www.sifter.com.au/post/australian-game-dev-jobs-rmit-student-perspective-graduates #gamedev

My flea-ridden cat had to be showered and shampooed and my what a new experience that was

What have been some of your favourite pieces of writing/journalism on video games this year? Feel free to post your own stuff. I'm keen to read.

Registration is now open for DiGRA Australia's 2025 National Conference, which will be held at University of South Australia on 5-7 February (and online). This is the first DiGRA Australia conference held off the east coast!! events.humanitix.com/digraaustral...

🚨 FINAL CALL - Call for Papers: Special Issue on Digital Femininities – Journal of Femininities – ABSTRACT DUE NOVEMBER 20th 🚨 brill.com/fileasset/do...

Gorgeous write up of the RMIT games grad show

Today!

Wanna write gaming news and reviews? We’re looking at bolstering our team of journos at @checkpointau.bsky.social Open to everybody, but bonus points if: 🌈 You identify as queer in some way 🇦🇺 You’re in Australia (Melb for 📻) 🎮 You love indies Newcomers welcome! DM or email me. 😘

That time of year again for the RMIT Games Grad show! www.rmitgamedesignshowcase.com It's a super strong cohort this year so be sure to come down and play some games! Opening Night: Nov 14, 4:30 - 9:30 Industry Day: Nov 15th 10am - 2:30pm RMIT City Campus, Building 12, Level 2

Big thank you to everyone who visited Feminine Play! You can now view/download an online version of the catalogue at feminineplay.org with beautiful art from all the exhibited works and an essay by @jtg.design @mahliann.bsky.social and I about femininity and games :)

We’re now closer to 200 Aussie Devs + Media on the list! If you can, share it on to people who need it 🙏 You also don’t have to follow me to be on it just fyi 😉😂 bsky.app/profile/did:...

I’m not on Bluesky as much as I’d like, but Feminine Play is coming together really beautifully and I’ll be posting updates on this new Instagram page if you’d like to follow along 🙏💕 www.instagram.com/feminineplay... Pictured: Little Ruin by Lucernal ❤️

Website: feminineplay.org Enquiries: feminineplay@gmail.com We are taking a very expansive reading of femininity - looking forward to your submissions!

👀 Do you have a game, game demo or playful object that explores femininity? Submit your work to Feminine Play! www.feminineplay.org

Happy happy happy to share that I’ll be a Lecturer in the games program at RMIT!!

I picked up a bunch of second-hand Total Girl magazines recently and this single spread captures 2007 preteen girl Australia better than anything I’ve ever seen

An article by Ben Abraham & myself for Organization, first pre-published back in 2022, is now finally published in an issue. All about the role that small-scale, independent cultural producers have in collective action in cultural industries, esp. game industry journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....