Ready, Set, Game

About Ready, Set, Game

Hello and welcome to the podcast series Ready, Set, Game: The Rhetoric of Games, a podcast created by Emory University students in David Morgen’s Play, Make, Write, Think class. Over the course of the series, we will approach games as operating within the larger media ecology and attempt to diagram the competing forces at work within that landscape. In each episode, we will play and analyze a specific game with an eye toward its rhetorical situation and the role it plays within the broader medium. We’ll focus on the way these games encourage players to think in order to move through them and what sorts of decisions the games force us to make. As we probe the underlying rules of game systems and speculate about what’s going on underneath the hood, we’ll ponder where they are taking us and to what ends. How do these games encourage certain types of problem solving and learning? What sorts of values do they promote? What sorts of new perspectives do we gain in the playing? So buckle up and come play with us.

Publisher

Play Make Write Think

Category

education · leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Apr 2020

Latest episode

29 Apr 2020

Latest episodes

10 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Apr 2020

   The Last of Us

   This episode was constructed to analyze the game The Last of Us. It began with an examination of our main[...]

2. 

   29 Apr 2020

   Tetris

   In this episode of “Ready, Set, Game”, Zamirah and Rachel will be analyzing the widely-popular game, Tetris. What makes this[...]

3. 

   22 Apr 2020

   Undertale

   In this episode, we will be discussing the ways the mechanics of the game inspire SuperBetter strategies and probing. After[...]

4. 

   22 Apr 2020

   Rummy

   In this podcast episode, Giovanni, Will and Sadie explore the general group of games called Rummy. Rummy is a basic[...]

5. 

   22 Apr 2020

   Fireboy and Watergirl: Nostalgia and Connection

   By looking back at the generation born in the 2000s, the first video games they had access to were on[...]

6. 

   13 Apr 2020

   Plague, Inc.

   In this episode, we will discuss the gaming mechanism and the real-life influence of Plague inc., a real-time strategy simulation video[...]

7. 

   13 Apr 2020

   Monument Valley

   Music Source: Todd Baker, youtube channel link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuRf9JXTBEl2ZLUEy6iTfxA Child Gamelan Rain Melody Power of Two A Full Life All Grown[...]

8. 

   8 Apr 2020

   Chess: The Game of Strategy

   In this podcast episode, Will, Giovanni, and Sadie take a deep dive into the game of Chess–the setup, rules, strategies,[...]

9. 

   8 Apr 2020

   Keeping your head in the game

   In this episode, Greg and I will be discussing the soccer video game FIFA 20. We will discuss how sports[...]

10. 

    3 Apr 2020

    Thinking with Portals

    In this episode Kathy and I will be taking a closer look at Portal 2, a puzzle game made by[...]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

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6 ratings

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