Gunnar Lott is managing director of a Berlin communication agency during the day and podcaster, blogger and author at night. In a former life he was a journalist and had the rare chance to found magazines (e.g. Making Games, GamePro) and to run them as editor-in-chief (e.g. GameStar). His professional focus has always been on games, but he is interested in practically everything from football tactics to scifi literature and vegan nutrition. His most famous project is the podcast Stay Forever, a kind of archaeological expedition into the history of video games.
All Sessions by Gunnar Lott
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20. Nov | Summit Day
The Summit Day will feature talks, project presentations, panel discussions, and workshops.
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Flawed, forgotten, fascinating: How the Stay Forever podcast explores irrelevant games, and what we can learn from them (+Q&As)
15:00 - 15:45In 2016, Stay Forever – Germany’s leading retro games podcast – introduced a side-project: Over the course of several weeks, the hosts Gunnar and Christian would individually play an obscure old game from the vast body of works that, well, didn’t exactly make it into the list of timeless classics. During this time, the two would meet every week to discuss their progress and reflect on their play experience. Pretty soon, this little experiment turned into a full-fledged series of expeditions into the scrapyards of gaming history, where we discovered that one person’s trash is another’s – our –treasure. Join us for an entertaining exhibition of the curious and enlightening artifacts that we brought back from these trips, which, through their existence, expand our understanding of the medium.20. Nov | Games Studies Summit: Paratextualizing GamesWhereroom 204