Jachère Journal

Some thoughts on watching genre movies and observing visual clusters.

The Games and Literature conference at the German Literature Archive in Marbach was intense.

After the wonderful kick-off, which cost me a lot of social energy (worth every unit), I got some input on literature.

Today I'm attempting to close read the code base of the VICE emulator.

As the title implies this will be a larger entry.

Dealt with Wikidata import, SPARQL queries, and Gephi visualisations.

I talked with Moritz Mähr about how to approach treating a code base as a text corpus, and he recommended to give Voyant Tools a shot.

I added programmed in to our Wikidata corpus, but found only 31 games where this statement could be made with some certainty.

I was on a two weeks vacation in August and didn't care much about my journal.

I've finished reading Jakob Birken's Videospiele and found it to be a good primer.

I have a basic assumption after a rather broad reading of texts.

Right now I do feel a bit lost with my dissertation.

Since I am the graphics-person, I'm also collecting images, of course.

Although we have a leap year, and were gifted an additional day in February, that month went by rather quickly.

As a preparation for a first dissertation meeting with my supervisor, I note my expectations, thoughts and questions here.

The last two weeks I was playing a few video games by Golden Gate Crew as well as Linel.

I took part in the online-workshop: Images in Social Media Research.

After the wonderful kick-off, which cost me a lot of social energy (worth every unit), I got some input on literature.

Starting December 2022, I began with my literature review.

In which I'm reflecting on critical code studies, distant reading source code and my recent workshop at the DHd 2025.

Writing this first paper felt grindy.

I'm interested in video game graphics programming practices.

Or how I'm slowly coming to my senses.

Another sketch for a dissertation proposal…

A sketch for a dissertation proposal.

I'm in Montréal for six weeks by now, but it feels definitely longer.

The title is a direct quote from Pierre-Yves Hurrel, one of the organizers of the Leisure electronics Conference in Lausanne conference, which I attended this week.

Right now I do feel a bit lost with my dissertation.

I was adding thoughts from my paper notebook to the wiki and engaged with a bit of maintenance, making connections, adding bits here and there.

I was on a two weeks vacation in August and didn't care much about my journal.

I took part in the online-workshop: Images in Social Media Research.

I talked with Moritz Mähr about how to approach treating a code base as a text corpus, and he recommended to give Voyant Tools a shot.

I had the chance to talk about my expose with my supervisor.

Next to intensively preparing for a conference talk, I had the chance to attend a preservation-session with people from the Swiss Video Game Archivists association.