Genre, Affect, Philosophy, Resistance, or all of the above? Remnant of pandemic fears or indicative of change to come?

In this episode of WordPlay, Andra Ivănescu and Hadi Mehrpouya talk Cosy with Kelly Boudreau, Programme Lead in Game Design at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Agata Waszkiewicz, Associate Professor in the English Department at the Catholic University of Lublin, Bettina Bódi, Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Communication at the University of Birmingham, and ex-academic Joe Baxter-Webb, who compares his YouTube design consultancy channel Indie Games Clinic to a games version of Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.

For the cosy media network, check out: https://cozymedia.net/call-for-papers/

For more information about this month's topic and to access some of our guests’ recommendations, please see:

• The Cozy Games Manifesto
• Whose Vibe is it Anyway? Negotiating Definitions of Cozy Games
• Cozy Games and Resistance Through Care
• The Duality of Cozy Games: Cozy Agency, Neoliberalism, and Affect
• Cozy Tea Games
• A Little to the Left
• Unpacking
• Pode
• Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
• SEASON: A Letter to the Future