[SIGCIS-Members] JULY 14 @ 7PM on Twitch: ROMchip Presents: Peter McDonald on The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play

[Laine Nooney]

Join us Tuesday July 14, as *ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories *hosts
games scholar Peter McDonald for a talk about his new book *The Impossible
Reversal: A History of How We Play*. The event will be at 7PM ET on the
*ROMchip *Twitch channel, *https://www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal
<https://www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal>*.

*About the Book*
Games and gamified activities have become ubiquitous in many adults’ lives,
and play is widely valued for fostering creativity, community, growth, and
empathy. But how did we come to our current understanding of what it means
to play? The Impossible Reversal charts the transformation of notions of
playfulness beginning in the second half of the twentieth century, when a
legion of artists, academics, and engineers developed new ways of
theorizing, structuring, and designing ludic activity.

This talk will be titled "The Birth of Game Design from the Spirit of
Management," focusing on one chapter from The Impossible Reversal, about
the American Management Association's Top Management Decision Simulation
from 1957.

*About the Speaker*
Peter McDonald (he/they) is an Associate Professor of Curriculum &
Instruction at the University of Wisconsin—Madison who works on the history
and interpretation of play. Peter is the author of two monographs, Run and
Jump: The Meaning of the 2D Platformer (2024, MIT Press) and The Impossible
Reversal: A History of How We Play (2026, Minnesota Press).

*About ROMchip*
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is a free, online scholarly journal
for game history. ROMchip develops, edits, and publishes ad-free, open
access game history research for a range of audiences. It supports any
discipline of work enlivening the history of games in local and global
contexts, and embraces diversity in how game history is studied,
documented, collected, preserved, and practiced. ROMchip is a
donation-based organization fiscally sponsored by The Hack Foundation
(d.b.a. Hack Club), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN: 81-2908499).


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