Jenna Perkin
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🏳️🌈 | University Professor of Game Development | Writer and Game Designer @ YES! Inc. | she/her
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Jenna Perkin
@jennaperkin.com
· May 18
A Walking, Talking Game System - Hour Detroit Magazine
Michigan startup YES! Inc. is bringing family time back to the living room with a new game system that gets up, talks, and joins the fun.
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We're making a new kind of game system, immersed in human connection.
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Check out my article for Hour Detroit, announcing my team's latest project: www.hourdetroit.com/sponsor-cont...
As a dual enrollment professor, it's become pretty clear that younger gen z isn't lazy, they've just realized that "hard work pays off" is a lie.
September 20, 2026 at 3:44 PM
As a dual enrollment professor, it's become pretty clear that younger gen z isn't lazy, they've just realized that "hard work pays off" is a lie.
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a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
September 20, 2026 at 12:57 AM
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
Obviously people shouldn't watch the Harry Potter show because of JK Rowling's transphobia, but we can't keep overlooking the blatant in-text antisemitism.
This isn't about separating the art from the artist. The art is the problem.
This isn't about separating the art from the artist. The art is the problem.
September 18, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Obviously people shouldn't watch the Harry Potter show because of JK Rowling's transphobia, but we can't keep overlooking the blatant in-text antisemitism.
This isn't about separating the art from the artist. The art is the problem.
This isn't about separating the art from the artist. The art is the problem.
Problematic mage gap. The party only does melee.
Problematic cage gap. The tiger has gotten out. Yes YES. The tiger is free.
problematic rage gap. only one person in the dynamic is consumed by vengeance
September 18, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Problematic mage gap. The party only does melee.
Our ads got pop up ads now?
September 18, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Our ads got pop up ads now?
Like I know that sexism exists but sometimes it's like legit crazy to imagine how anyone genuinely believes that shit
September 15, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Like I know that sexism exists but sometimes it's like legit crazy to imagine how anyone genuinely believes that shit
I'm effortfully cool. I work hard to be like this.
September 13, 2026 at 3:25 AM
I'm effortfully cool. I work hard to be like this.
Any criticism of the dire literacy problem that criticizes 67 is deeply misguided and narcissistic. The desire to learn can easily be boosted by an engagement with our social environments. 67 is completely harmless.
The thread to your kids literacy is the lack of phonics education, not memes.
The thread to your kids literacy is the lack of phonics education, not memes.
September 11, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Any criticism of the dire literacy problem that criticizes 67 is deeply misguided and narcissistic. The desire to learn can easily be boosted by an engagement with our social environments. 67 is completely harmless.
The thread to your kids literacy is the lack of phonics education, not memes.
The thread to your kids literacy is the lack of phonics education, not memes.
Everyone yearns for the college days, when we had like twelve different third spaces and our friends would just randomly show up there without even having to plan anything.
September 10, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Everyone yearns for the college days, when we had like twelve different third spaces and our friends would just randomly show up there without even having to plan anything.
Using the phrase "one of the best" is of no value when describing sets of 4 or less.
September 9, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Using the phrase "one of the best" is of no value when describing sets of 4 or less.
There is not a bad Matrix movie.
September 6, 2026 at 6:01 PM
There is not a bad Matrix movie.
Power got wiped out, and I finished Ulysses, so I'm finding new ways to entertain myself.
September 4, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Power got wiped out, and I finished Ulysses, so I'm finding new ways to entertain myself.
I ended up in a wheelchair overnight. While I recovered 9 months later, the entire experience was completely jarring.
I knew it was bad. But to know it and to live it are so distant. What I never anticipated was for all my credibility and competence to be perceived as obsolete by strangers.
I knew it was bad. But to know it and to live it are so distant. What I never anticipated was for all my credibility and competence to be perceived as obsolete by strangers.
Being suddenly thrust into the experience of disability can be incredibly jarring and also extremely radicalizing. Adryan's story as with so many people also involves huge fails in the medical system that contributed to needless pain and complications, a story so many of us know too well.
"For me, the disaster was not using a wheelchair, but living in a world that is hostile towards the people who need them."
Adryan Corcione writes about going from able-bodied to disabled overnight, watching a whole lot of disaster movies, and a fundamental shift in thinking about disability.
Adryan Corcione writes about going from able-bodied to disabled overnight, watching a whole lot of disaster movies, and a fundamental shift in thinking about disability.
September 1, 2026 at 3:35 PM
I ended up in a wheelchair overnight. While I recovered 9 months later, the entire experience was completely jarring.
I knew it was bad. But to know it and to live it are so distant. What I never anticipated was for all my credibility and competence to be perceived as obsolete by strangers.
I knew it was bad. But to know it and to live it are so distant. What I never anticipated was for all my credibility and competence to be perceived as obsolete by strangers.
Year 3 as a higher education professor...
August 31, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Year 3 as a higher education professor...
Nahhhh Life is Strange Double Exposure rocks.
The breakup was a good creative decision. Safi is a good character. They nailed exactly what an older Max would be.
Not perfect, but genuinely great. It's a shame it didn't resonate with people the way earlier entries did.
The breakup was a good creative decision. Safi is a good character. They nailed exactly what an older Max would be.
Not perfect, but genuinely great. It's a shame it didn't resonate with people the way earlier entries did.
August 30, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Nahhhh Life is Strange Double Exposure rocks.
The breakup was a good creative decision. Safi is a good character. They nailed exactly what an older Max would be.
Not perfect, but genuinely great. It's a shame it didn't resonate with people the way earlier entries did.
The breakup was a good creative decision. Safi is a good character. They nailed exactly what an older Max would be.
Not perfect, but genuinely great. It's a shame it didn't resonate with people the way earlier entries did.
I imagine people will be willing to wreck cars and drive without worry. It'll probably be really fun.
But in a country of mass shootings, yeah, the idea of opening fire just doesn't seem fun right now.
Games don't cause violence, but violence defines how we play.
But in a country of mass shootings, yeah, the idea of opening fire just doesn't seem fun right now.
Games don't cause violence, but violence defines how we play.
August 28, 2026 at 6:09 PM
I imagine people will be willing to wreck cars and drive without worry. It'll probably be really fun.
But in a country of mass shootings, yeah, the idea of opening fire just doesn't seem fun right now.
Games don't cause violence, but violence defines how we play.
But in a country of mass shootings, yeah, the idea of opening fire just doesn't seem fun right now.
Games don't cause violence, but violence defines how we play.
Not a single drug hits as hard as a James Cameron third act action sequences.
August 27, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Not a single drug hits as hard as a James Cameron third act action sequences.
If I was in charge, every time a tv or film character needs a lawyer, Elle Woods, Saul Goodman, Elsbeth Tascioni, or Jackie Chiles would inexplicably show up.
August 27, 2026 at 2:54 PM
If I was in charge, every time a tv or film character needs a lawyer, Elle Woods, Saul Goodman, Elsbeth Tascioni, or Jackie Chiles would inexplicably show up.
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Holy shit all the trailers before this Coyote Vs Acme showing are R rated horror movies.
August 23, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Holy shit all the trailers before this Coyote Vs Acme showing are R rated horror movies.
I used to enjoy debate, until debate replaced the obligation to research.
Instead of finding the correct answers, people believe they are owed dissenting argument in order to learn. They turn fact into argument and declare themselves judge.
If you can't sway willful ignorance, you must be wrong!
Instead of finding the correct answers, people believe they are owed dissenting argument in order to learn. They turn fact into argument and declare themselves judge.
If you can't sway willful ignorance, you must be wrong!
August 23, 2026 at 6:20 PM
I used to enjoy debate, until debate replaced the obligation to research.
Instead of finding the correct answers, people believe they are owed dissenting argument in order to learn. They turn fact into argument and declare themselves judge.
If you can't sway willful ignorance, you must be wrong!
Instead of finding the correct answers, people believe they are owed dissenting argument in order to learn. They turn fact into argument and declare themselves judge.
If you can't sway willful ignorance, you must be wrong!
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where are the 500 professors signing an open letter about a professor being fired for talking about gender?
August 23, 2026 at 1:33 PM
where are the 500 professors signing an open letter about a professor being fired for talking about gender?
Every time someone says Obsession is a Monkey's Paw I have to wonder if they don't believe women should have autonomy.
Obsession isn't a Monkey's Paw, Bear just made an evil wish.
Obsession isn't a Monkey's Paw, Bear just made an evil wish.
August 22, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Every time someone says Obsession is a Monkey's Paw I have to wonder if they don't believe women should have autonomy.
Obsession isn't a Monkey's Paw, Bear just made an evil wish.
Obsession isn't a Monkey's Paw, Bear just made an evil wish.
Call me crazy but imagine if game awards weren't genre based but instead development based?
I want to see award campaigns for Best Optimization, Quest Design, Team Management, QA, Level Design, NPC Programming, and UI Design.
I want to see award campaigns for Best Optimization, Quest Design, Team Management, QA, Level Design, NPC Programming, and UI Design.
August 20, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Call me crazy but imagine if game awards weren't genre based but instead development based?
I want to see award campaigns for Best Optimization, Quest Design, Team Management, QA, Level Design, NPC Programming, and UI Design.
I want to see award campaigns for Best Optimization, Quest Design, Team Management, QA, Level Design, NPC Programming, and UI Design.
Don't trust anything I said before 2022 I only became smart that year.
August 19, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Don't trust anything I said before 2022 I only became smart that year.
Have not heard of these films but I have seen The Boss Baby
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August 17, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Have not heard of these films but I have seen The Boss Baby