Stefano Gualeni

Stefano Gualeni
Born (1978-04-30) April 30, 1978 (age 46)
Lovere, Italy
Occupation(s)Philosopher, Video game designer, Professor at the University of Malta, Visiting Professor at the Laguna College of Art and Design
Websitehttps://gua-le-ni.com

Stefano Gualeni is an Italian philosopher, associate professor, and game designer who has created interactable websites and video games such as Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths, Gua-Le-Ni; or, The Horrendous Parade, and Something Something Soup Something.[1][2][3][4]

Gualeni is an associate professor at the Institute of Digital Games of the University of Malta, where he pursues academic research in the fields of philosophy of technology, game design, virtual worlds research, science fiction, and existentialism.[5][6][7][8][9]

Since 2015, he is a visiting professor in game design at the Laguna College of Art and Design of Laguna Beach, California.[5][10][11]

He had also been a visiting researcher at Centre of the Digital Humanities of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2019), at the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies (RCGS) at the Ritsumeikan University of Kyoto, Japan (2023), and at the Faculty of Media and Communication of the Singidunum University of Belgrade, Serbia (2024).[5][11][12]

  1. ^ MobyGames Developer's Bio
  2. ^ Stefano Gualeni at IMDb
  3. ^ Stefano Gualeni's Adventuretreff Interview (18-06-2006)
  4. ^ "Something Something Soup Something". soup.gua-le-ni.com. Retrieved 2017-11-10.
  5. ^ a b c "Stefano Gualeni's ORCiD profile".
  6. ^ University of Malta, Dr. Stefano Gualeni profile at the University of Malta
  7. ^ Dr. Stefano Gualeni profile on the website of the Institute of Digital Games
  8. ^ Gualeni, Stefano (2015). Virtual worlds as Philosophical Tools: How to Philosophize with a Digital Hammer. Basingstoke (UK): Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-137-52178-1. OCLC 911495163.
  9. ^ Gualeni, Stefano (2020). Virtual Existentialism: Meaning and Subjectivity in Virtual Worlds. Basingstoke (UK): Palgrave. ISBN 978-3-030-38477-7. OCLC 1153071742.
  10. ^ "Prof. Stefano Gualeni - Laguna College of Art and Design". LCAD official Website. June 19, 2018. Retrieved June 19, 2018.
  11. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference :7 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ Game Philosophy in Gothenburg