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Em Reed - Home
Welcome to my Website!
This is the personal site of Em Reed
About Me Updates!
I am a writer and researcher currently based in Glasgow. My background includes art history and creative writing but I also enjoy experimenting with small game tools in my spare time. I am interested in science fiction, overlooked elements of the history and artistic practice behind videogames, and developing more experimental approaches to writing and criticism.
Check out my work on this site: Writing Portfolio | Curation Portfolio I also run Plaintext Distro And my debut novel is out now through Knight Errant Press.
APR 22 2025: NEW BLOG - Reframing Abundance: Open Tools, Free Games, Distributed Culture
APR 20 2025: NEW VN FOR DOMINO CLUB - IT CAME FROM THE ORGONE CHAMBER
OCT 22 2024: NEW IF FOR DOMINO CLUB - [EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION]
MAY 13 2024: UP FOR PREORDER - My Debut Novel! (So that's what you've been up to.)
NOV 10 2023: NEW VN FOR DOMINO CLUB - Dust Breeding
JAN 01 2023: HAPPY NEW YEAR! NEW ESSAY - Flesh Only Transforms (Murdered Futures Zine)
OCT 25 2022: NEW JOURNAL ARTICLE - "The aesthetics of speedrunning: Performances in neo-baroque space" (Replay.)
OCT 10 2022: NEW INTERACTIVE FICTION AT DOMINO CLUB - perverseoverride
SEP 11 2022: NEW GAME - Boyish Loser
AUG 18 2022: NEW FICTION AT RED FUTURES MAG - Scrap Heap
JUN 27 2022: NEW AT THE SERVING LIBRARY - Snake Head, Snake Tail
JUN 13 2022:
APR 13 2022: NEW FICTION AT RED FUTURES MAG - Feasibility Report
MAR 22 2022: NEW INTERACTIVE FICTION AT DOMINO CLUB - Vault 819, Underground
MAR 01 2022: NEW FICTION AT RED FUTURES MAG - Long Haul
FEB 20 2022: FOR UNDO JAM - The Handheld is Dead!
JAN 05 2022: NOW OPEN - The Museum of Unspeakable Games
SEP 29 2021: NEW BLOG - Shell Game
JUL 25 2021: RATE MY SETUP - Interview at Uses This
JUL 23 2021: NEW BLOG - Hidden in the Walls of this House (Fata Morgana review +???)
JUN 17 2021: NEW JOURNAL ARTICLE - ‘I find this disgusting but I can’t help myself’: Videogame panics and sinister origins in 1990s sf media (SFFTV)
JUN 15 2021: NEW TYPE OF GUY JUST DROPPED (thanks candle! )
MAY 20 2021: NEW GAME WIP - FLESH/CIRCUIT
MAY 03 2021: NEW FEATURE AT REAL LIFE - Play to Lose
APR 27 2021: HOW PREDICTABLE! - You can now support me with a newsletter subscription
APR 16 2021: NEW FEATURE AT RPS - Returning to the Catacombs of Solaris
MAR 27 2021: Announcing the Proof-of-Rest Protocol!
MAR 10 2021: LIST JAM ROUNDUP now online at CD!
MAR 02 2021: NEW BLOG - A Dark Matter Reading List
FEB 21 2021: List Jam entry now available at your peril!
FEB 15 2021: NEW BLOG - Provenance is a Technology!
FEB 03 2021: ANNOUNCING: The List Jam!
JAN 01 2021: WEBRING UPDATED!
NOV 11 2020: NEW BLOG - Four Years Retrospective
NOV 01 2020: WEBRING UPDATED!
OCT 31 2020: NEW BLOG - Car Fantasia
OCT 31 2020: GHM ZINE - Volume 2 Preorders Live!
OCT 07 2020: NEW BLOG - Loving in a World Already Written (moon review)
SEP 08 2020: MY THESIS NOW ONLINE - neat
SEP 05 2020: NEW TALK - Game Engines as Mass Art Tools
AUG 31 2020: NEW BOOK REVIEW - Handmade Pixels
AUG 06 2020: NEW BLOG - Videogames and Arts Funding
JUL 10 2020: NEW BLOG - Considering Your Non-Options: Lee Lozano
JUL 08 2020: NEW GUEST POST - My games writing all time greats on VGDC
MAY 15 2020: Listen to me on the pod - Keywords in Play
APR 16 2020: BOOK CHAPTER - I wrote about game making tools for Indie Games in the Digital Age
APR 10 2020: NEW BLOG - Review: Hashihime of the Old Book Town
APR 04 2020: #SPECULATIONJAM ROUNDUP! - New Futures
APR 02 2020: NEW FEATURE AT EGM - Animal Crossing, SimCity, and the Long History of City Planning in Games
MAR 19 2020: NEW BLOG - Citygames
FEB 22 2020: NEW ESSAY FOR #SPECULATIONJAM - POST-OWNERSHIP
FEB 14 2020: WEBRING UPDATED!
JAN 09 2020: CHECK IT OUT! - Now Play This zine library featured on Game Arts International Network's annual roundup!
DEC 21 2019: NEW BLOG - 2019 in Games Writing - SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!!
DEC 20 2019: NEW BLOG - GAMES TO REMEMBER
NOV 20 2019: HOUSEKEEPING - Updated CV , Curation Portfolio , and moved around the furniture a bit.
NOV 12 2019: LATEBREAKING - This blog has been endorsed by Don Miguel
NOV 12 2019: NEW BLOG - It's Disgusting But I Can’t Help Myself: eXistenZ’s Unhappy Consciousness for Videogames
OCT 28 2019: NEW BLOG - The One Where I Try to be Funny
SEP 16 2019: NEW BLOG - On Kissing the Cop in Chulip
AUG 18 2019: WEBRING UPDATED!
AUG 15 2019: NEW BLOG - Review – Bridget Riley (National Galleries Scotland)
AUG 05 2019: NEW BLOG - Be Realistic!
JUL 12 2019: NEW FEATURE AT RPS - Occupy White Walls Removes the Dark Cloud Hanging Over All Art Exhibitions
JUN 24 2019: NEW BLOG - Statement for "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Digital Play"
JUN 11 2019: NEW BLOG - Love Letters From Eye to Screen
MAY 29 2019: NEW BLOG - Feral Vector 2019 Talk
MAY 12 2019: DONATION LINK live, more gifs. (Thanks GifCities )
MAY 09 2019: NEW BLOG - Thinking/Game-Gardening Ruderally
MAY 06 2019: Curation Portfolio up on here.
APR 20 2019: NEW BLOG - Do Your Dailies
APR 16 2019: NEW BLOG - Dispatch from the Speculation Zone
MAR 28 2019: OMG, SO WEB 1.0!! - GUESTBOOK LINK ADDED!!
MAR 08 2019: NEW BLOG - Flappy Bird Will Have Its Revenge On Indie Games
FEB 28 2019: #LOSTHISTORIESJAM ROUNDUP! - The Writing Jam Rolls On! What we found in the Lost Histories jam
FEB 17 2019: NEW ESSAY FOR #LOSTHISTORIESJAM - Anything a Maze
JAN 15 2019: NEW BLOG - 2018 in Videogame Blogging
JAN 02 2019: NEW BLOG - Three Modernisms!
DEC 29 2018: NEW BLOG - Review: Videogames: Design, Play, Disrupt (V&A, 2018)
DEC 29 2018: NEW JOURNAL ARTICLE - Exhibition Strategies for Videogames in Art Institutions: Blank Arcade 2016 (ToDiGRA)
OCT 26 2018: NEW BLOG - 9/10 Best New Latest Example
And my debut novel is out now through Knight Errant Press. 
