Max Hui Bai has released a (priced) game, Publish or perish, about the pressures of academic publishing "Players race to publish manuscripts with useless nonsense while sabotaging each other's research and delivering "very helpful" comments, Reviewer 2 style" (for those not into academic publishing "reviewer 2" is the highly critical reviewer who appears to have no clue about the subject/methods but nevertheless hacks into you, or who seems to be deliberately torpedoing your work, or who just demands a large amount of fiddly / pointless change).
It is available in English or Chinese and has some expansion packs: go to https://publishorperish.games/
Not to be confused with The Publishing Trap (though if you are interested in one, you likely will be interested in the other)
Photo by Sheila Webber: books in the library, May 2025
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