- 98
- Episodes
- 26
- Transcribed
- 550
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
About Game Studies Study Buddies
Learn all about the academic field of game studies!
- Publisher
- Ranged Touch
- Category
- leisure
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 7 Jun 2018
- Latest episode
- 1 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
26 of 98 episodes have a transcript.

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97 – McDonald – Run and Jump

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95 – Nardo – The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
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97 – McDonald – Run and Jump
Published 1 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so he then talks about moving out of like the Macromedia Flash era. This directly gives rise to the prestige indie platformer. And then so that's something like Spelunky. Super Meat Boy doesn't show up in this. And I don't know if. Not by name at all. It gets referenced several times, right? Because there's the reference of a horizontal spinning blade. Yes. For some reason I thought it did, but maybe not. I can't think of where it would have been. It doesn't get a close read as one of those indie platformers. But then also the other branch of that kind of development is the deconstructed platformer. […]
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