Tweets Analysis - Keyword: @br
Overview
Total number of tweets analysed
256
Earliest tweet was on
2023-03-22
Latest tweet was on
2023-03-31
Tweets covering
9 days
Average age of authors' accounts
10 years
Summarization
There is controversy surrounding the lack of credit given to Brenda Romero, a video game industry veteran, for her board game Train, which inspired a game in a novel called "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow." The author of the book erased all the women in the acknowledgments and did not credit Romero for the idea she borrowed. Many people online are disappointed and disheartened and feel that proper attribution should be given. The publisher, AA Knopf, is refusing to acknowledge Romero's work despite evidence. Some academics are offering their expertise to explain the importance of sources and citing games. Despite the controversy, Romero received a Lifetime Achievement Award at GDC in San Francisco.
Topic Modeling
- Controversy over lack of credit for Brenda Romero's Train game
- Crediting and acknowledging women in the gaming industry
- Appreciation for Brenda Romero's career and work
- Ethics of Holocaust games and their portrayal in media
- Publishing and citation practices in the gaming industry
Emotional Analysis
These tweets express a range of emotions including disappointment, frustration, anger, shock, and empathy in response to the lack of credit given to Brenda Romero for her game Train, which was inspired by a book but not acknowledged in the book's credits. Many people express support for Romero and outrage at the publisher's refusal to rectify the omission. There are also expressions of admiration for Romero's work and a desire to learn more about it. Some tweets highlight broader issues of erasure and the ethics of Holocaust games.
Trend Analysis
- Controversy surrounding lack of credit for @br's Train game
- Discussion of sexism in author's acknowledgements
- Praise and recognition for @br's work and achievements in video game industry
- Comparisons and connections between Train game and other works
- Calls for proper attribution and acknowledgement of @br's work
Types of Tweets
Number of Retweets
49
Percentage of total tweets
19%
Number of Original tweets
18
Percentage of total tweets
7%
Number of tweets that contain Mentions
256
Percentage of total tweets
100%
Number of tweets that were Replies
171
Percentage of total tweets
66%
Number of tweets that were Quotes
29
Percentage of total tweets
11%
Number of tweets that contain Hashtags
22
Percentage of total tweets
8%
Top 5 devices used to tweet
| Source | Count |
|---|---|
| Twitter Web App | 91 |
| Twitter for iPhone | 81 |
| Twitter for Android | 68 |
| Twitter for iPad | 8 |
| TweetDeck | 5 |
What devices were used to tweet
Top 10 accounts with highest followers count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| romero | 𝕵𝖔𝖍𝖓 𝕽𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖗𝖔 | He/Him. Indigenerd. Speaking: info@romero.com. Game designer, programmer. I make FPS Games. SIGIL, Quake, DOOM, Wolf3D + many more. Discord: https://t.co/wtPdsStx3M. | 193,982 |
| avantgame | Jane IMAGINABLE McGonigal ❤️ | *The opposite of play isn't work. It's depression.* Get my NYT bestsellers REALITY IS BROKEN, SUPERBETTER and now, IMAGINABLE! Powered by the science of games. | 148,618 |
| Freedland | Jonathan Freedland | Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy with @leviyonit. Author: THE ESCAPE ARTIST | 142,685 |
| MitchyD | Mitch Dyer | Advanced Writer @ WB Games Montreal. Aging emo kid, JRPG dork, comrade. Writer on Gotham Knights, Star Wars: Squadrons & Battlefront II. He/Him 🍁 | 56,117 |
| AlmostMedia | Julie Fredrickson | Founded & sold shit. Angel invest & early stage (https://t.co/AAXsJuYK25) Doomer influencer 🥴 #Homesteads #Finance 👫 @alexlmiller via @Uchicago Colorado | 34,416 |
| JoeNeate1 | Joe Neate | Executive Producer on #SeaOfThieves @RareLtd. Proud to be a part of this incredible studio. @specialeffect Ambassador | 24,704 |
| jonjones | Jon Jones | He/him. Pipeline Producer at Firaxis. #gamedev, author (How I Escaped Evangelical Hell), ramen enjoyer, cat hugger, name haver. jonjones@mastodon.gamedev.place | 21,138 |
| lexbyanyname | "lex" | product designer → founder • optimistic doomer • sometimes sick, always fighting for better healthcare • negotiating medical bills • lex@peachypatients.com | 18,108 |
| cameo | Cameo Wood | Directrix. Watch my Emmy-winning short @RealArtistsFilm free with your library card https://t.co/b3aPvjj3ki I produce films at @charmingstrange | 16,673 |
| RaphLife | Raphael van Lierop (He/Him) | I lead @hinterlandgames & created THE LONG DARK. Working on ____ and ____. More stubborn than you. 🇨🇦 Going here next: @raphlife@mastodon.social | 15,949 |
Top 10 accounts with highest friends count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| AlmostMedia | Julie Fredrickson | Founded & sold shit. Angel invest & early stage (https://t.co/AAXsJuYK25) Doomer influencer 🥴 #Homesteads #Finance 👫 @alexlmiller via @Uchicago Colorado | 9,491 |
| t3dy | Ted Hand | No honest game is entirely lacking in the capacity to instruct.-Cusanus Limited MtG, Esoteric Beat, Tarot for the Soulless Materialist, Alchemy Coloring Book | 6,328 |
| wernerkeil | Werner Keil | #CATMedia, @UnitAPI #JSR385, #JSR354 #SpecLead @JCP_org @AgileAlliance @W3C @EclipseFdn #CloudNative #DevOps #FF #IoT #ITSecurity #Java #JakartaEE #SmartData | 6,223 |
| tyschalter | Ty Schalter | Professional writer & talker (@FiveThirtyEight, Gimme Schalter newsletter, books & stories, more). Sports things & nerd stuff. @Futurescapes ‘23. He/him. #ADHD | 5,086 |
| ArthurKrischke | Stehaufmann aus Wien | In Mödling bei Wien geborener Skorpion, stolz auf 3 Kinder, verheiratet, getrennt lebend, Buchautor, u.a. über Korruption in Österreich. | 5,001 |
| Raiderblood1985 | justin paul garrett | My name is justin garrett im a huge Las Vegas Raiders fan. I love all wrestling from Nwa to Mlw to Aew. Rip Saber the King Garrett and my Big Dummy Bane. | 4,999 |
| tfoley1 | Tom Foley | US Army vet, Eastern Michigan alum, University of Florida, MFA, Actor macchiato marxist, glassy eyed clintonista. #Patriot #VeteransAgainstTrump | 4,996 |
| TreitnerS | Siegfried Treitner | Humanist, Geographer, Office, Manager in Hard-, Software, Electro, Hobby in Cooking, Biking, Aquaristic, Tropic, IT,Climatology, Mycology | 4,979 |
| 1612204 | David Wall 🇨🇦🇪🇺 | Educator CompThinking Heutagogy UX Complex Problem Solving Mulitmodality, Transliteracies - Thinking about how you think about thinking! | 4,960 |
| d3w01f | Lloyd Dewolf 🐺 | Awards eligible. Was given a free copy for an honest review. Logician magician ✨ 🌍🕸🧢🚨 Disclosure: @corelight_inc , prev @automattic . | 4,814 |
Most active users
| Username | Bio | Number of tweets |
|---|---|---|
| Zappa4ever | Geboren im Ruhrgebiet, gelandet in Berlin. Mag die Berliner, nicht aber die Politiker hier. | 12 |
| OpaPaulsEnkelin | Opas Enkeltochter schreibt für https://t.co/fhN4yGSfRX Opa hätte es gefallen, der mochte keine Nazis. Kettenbriefe enden IMMER bei mir. | 8 |
| avantgame | *The opposite of play isn't work. It's depression.* Get my NYT bestsellers REALITY IS BROKEN, SUPERBETTER and now, IMAGINABLE! Powered by the science of games. | 6 |
| arrasta_RG | tudo passa🕊️ | 6 |
| horrolivia | Writer. Game designer. Assistant writer at @WadjetEyeGames. Audio horror fiction @NoSleepPodcast and elsewhere. Currently working on Old Skies. | 4 |
| odd_dimensions | Tall person, backpain fighter. (he/him) Sr. Gameplay Software Engineer, currently Unity/C# Discord: Starcommander#0913 | 4 |
| XopherJohnson | Dog-owned Character Animator and Outsource Manager for video games. Attempting some stand-up comedy in a world gone mad. Find me: XopherJohnson@mstdn.party | 4 |
| RosaCustodio55 | SOLIDARIEDADE | 4 |
| esdin | Game Maker | 💖💜💙 | they/he | ADHD | DRE, Meta Quest | Open-Office Hours at my site! | @esdin@peoplemaking.games | 4 |
| NME_Games | What's new and what's next: Essential #gaming news, features and reviews | 3 |
Tweets per day
Top 10 tweets with highest Retweet count
| ID | Text | Retweet count |
|---|---|---|
| 1639366688318668801 | The Washington Post on @br’s Train and Knopf’s odd refusal to extend credit to this boardgame and artwork, even though its author admits it inspired a game in her book. https://t.co/RJUfYXdk9g | 14 |
| 1638473921845682177 | Brenda Romero is one of the video game industry's most experienced voices. Whether it's work on 'Empire of Sin' or 'Playboy: The Mansion', Romero's phenomenal career started after a cigarette in a New York bathroom @br is our latest Boss Level profile: https://t.co/gw71zn3J10 https://t.co/mDzDls1U4o | 11 |
| 1638761146378485761 | @br I’m really sorry. I loved Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and this is so dismaying to hear. The Strawberry Thief game in the book was also based on a real game by a woman designer; she also wasn’t credited. https://t.co/WWf1hbr03R | 5 |
| 1639239025251713029 | Brenda Romero’s @br game Train is art. I had no idea what games could accomplish. I was moved reading this. this is what happens when creators don’t get credit, we miss the opportunity to learn. I now want to look up all of Brenda’s work. https://t.co/H9SB7wl4OT | 4 |
| 1638619833540702208 | @kimpall @br That author has a real blind spot about crediting women. Read the acknowledgements. She erased all the women. | 3 |
| 1640980544749019139 | Wanting to add to the many voices of others regarding the tasteless lack of acknowledgement for @br Brenda’s work on “Train”, a game I teach in my game dev classes https://t.co/aw2DCniVvG | 3 |
| 1638897289426272256 | @br I was certain that Solution was a reference to Train. When I finally reached the Acknowledgements, I saw this portion explicitly listing other games used as inspiration and I was disappointed and confused to not see Train listed on its own. https://t.co/BzxEivKfk2 | 2 |
| 1640426517074427905 | In the novel "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow," a Jewish character creates a Holocaust computer game similar to @br's real board game "Train." But "Train" goes uncredited. I wrote about the controversy & the ethics of Holocaust games ➡️ @jewishsf https://t.co/EWa4nYQQ6N | 2 |
| 1638620126609309698 | @kimpall @br That said not crediting Brenda for the idea she borrowed/copied/stole is by far the most egregious omission and I'm glad to have helped raise a bit of hell about it 🔥🔥🔥🔥 | 2 |
| 1638870765838929920 | Congratulations to @romero for his Lifetime Achievement Award at @Official_GDC in San Fran yesterday! We're so lucky to have such an industry legend as part of the Galway & Irish games development community. Comhghairdeas mhór💚🌟🎮 #gamedev #GDC2023 #GDC23 @br @romerogamesltd https://t.co/wRgNOk7yAM | 2 |
Top 10 tweets with highest Like count
| ID | Text | Like count |
|---|---|---|
| 1639366688318668801 | The Washington Post on @br’s Train and Knopf’s odd refusal to extend credit to this boardgame and artwork, even though its author admits it inspired a game in her book. https://t.co/RJUfYXdk9g | 73 |
| 1638619833540702208 | @kimpall @br That author has a real blind spot about crediting women. Read the acknowledgements. She erased all the women. | 62 |
| 1638897289426272256 | @br I was certain that Solution was a reference to Train. When I finally reached the Acknowledgements, I saw this portion explicitly listing other games used as inspiration and I was disappointed and confused to not see Train listed on its own. https://t.co/BzxEivKfk2 | 44 |
| 1638620126609309698 | @kimpall @br That said not crediting Brenda for the idea she borrowed/copied/stole is by far the most egregious omission and I'm glad to have helped raise a bit of hell about it 🔥🔥🔥🔥 | 42 |
| 1638473921845682177 | Brenda Romero is one of the video game industry's most experienced voices. Whether it's work on 'Empire of Sin' or 'Playboy: The Mansion', Romero's phenomenal career started after a cigarette in a New York bathroom @br is our latest Boss Level profile: https://t.co/gw71zn3J10 https://t.co/mDzDls1U4o | 38 |
| 1638921881750491136 | @br As a person who read, loved, and recommended that book, this is disheartening to read. How can we best support your work now? | 36 |
| 1638763090375503872 | @br Yeah I listened to the audiobook and was like whoa direct Brenda reference that's so cool. But, uh, now I feel very differently. 😔 | 26 |
| 1638870765838929920 | Congratulations to @romero for his Lifetime Achievement Award at @Official_GDC in San Fran yesterday! We're so lucky to have such an industry legend as part of the Galway & Irish games development community. Comhghairdeas mhór💚🌟🎮 #gamedev #GDC2023 #GDC23 @br @romerogamesltd https://t.co/wRgNOk7yAM | 25 |
| 1639239025251713029 | Brenda Romero’s @br game Train is art. I had no idea what games could accomplish. I was moved reading this. this is what happens when creators don’t get credit, we miss the opportunity to learn. I now want to look up all of Brenda’s work. https://t.co/H9SB7wl4OT | 24 |
| 1639070554899767300 | @AlmostMedia @br @amyngyn This is clearly written by someone who’s never experienced erasure and doesn’t understand what you call “micro slice of attention”, isn’t about ego, it’s acknowledgment of one’s work being co-opted by omission. | 24 |
Top 3 Languages Used In Tweets
Top 10 Hashtags used
| Hashtag | Count |
|---|---|
| #gamedev | 3 |
| #gdc23 | 3 |
| #gruenen | 3 |
| #böhmermann | 3 |
| #gdc2023 | 3 |
| #pappaanteportas | 2 |
| #loriot | 2 |
| #eckhart | 2 |
| #ri | 1 |
| #זולין | 1 |
Top 10 Hashtags Used In Tweets
Top 10 mentions
| Mention | Count |
|---|---|
| @br | 262 |
| @heuteshow | 26 |
| @romero | 25 |
| @mmittermeier | 24 |
| @opapaulsenkelin | 16 |
| @zappa4ever | 12 |
| @amyngyn | 11 |
| @mj_bdd | 9 |
| @cristian_fxp05 | 9 |
| @pestinha_04 | 9 |
Top 10 mentions
Wordcloud of Tweets
Emojis
Average number of emojis used per tweet
30
Emojis used in tweets
| Emoji | Count | Emoji Text |
|---|---|---|
| 🤣 | 20 | rolling_on_the_floor_laughing |
| 🔥 | 8 | fire |
| ➡️ | 3 | right_arrow |
| 👏 | 3 | clapping_hands |
| 😊 | 3 | smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes |
| 👌 | 3 | OK_hand |
| 😂 | 3 | face_with_tears_of_joy |
| 😅 | 3 | grinning_face_with_sweat |
| 🖤 | 3 | black_heart |
| ☝️ | 2 | index_pointing_up |
Emojis groups
| Emoji Group | Count |
|---|---|
| Smileys & Emotion | 48 |
| People & Body | 10 |
| Travel & Places | 10 |
| Symbols | 6 |
| Activities | 3 |