A podcast about tabletop role-playing games and academic research. Part of 'Serious Play: Exploring Role-Playing Games as Practice-Led Research', a project by Oliver Thurley, Asa Roast, Liz Stainforth, and Dominic O’Key. Supported by the LAHRI Sadler series, University of Leeds, 2021-22.
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August 21, 2022
<p>In this episode, we speak to C. Thi Nguyen, philosophy professor at University of Utah and author of <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/games-9780190052089?cc=us&lang=en&">Games: Agency As Art</a> (OUP, 2020). We discuss point systems; agency in play; rules and constraints; and the problems of gamification.</p> <p><a href="https://objectionable.net/">https://objectionable.net/</a></p> <p><strong>Games mentioned in this episode:</strong></p> <ul> <li>The Mind - <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244992/mind">https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244992/mind</a></li> <li>Sign: A Game about Being Understood - <a href="https://thornygames.com/pages/sign">https://thornygames.com/pages/sign</a></li> <li>Apocalypse World - <a href="http://apocalypse-world.com/">http://apocalypse-world.com/</a></li> <li>Monster of the Week - <a href="https://evilhat.com/product/monster-of-the-week/">https://evilhat.com/product/monster-of-the-week/</a></li> <li>Night Witches - <a href="https://bullypulpitgames.com/games/night-witches/">https://bullypulpitgames.com/games/night-witches/</a></li> <li>The Quiet Year - <a href="https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year">https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year</a></li> <li>Microscope - <a href="https://www.lamemage.com/microscope/">https://www.lamemage.com/microscope/</a></li> </ul> <p>***</p> <p>Produced by Dominic O’Key, Asa Roast, Liz Stainforth, and Oliver Thurley.</p> <p>Music by Dominic O’Key.</p>
June 21, 2022
<p>In this episode, we speak to sociologist <a href="https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Gabriele.de.Seta">Gabriele de Seta</a> about his ethnography of Magic: The Gathering players in Taiwan, and a Nordic LARP as part of an ERC-funded research project on Machine Vision.</p> <p><a href="https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/e1k8ndd/metadata/%22">http://paranom.asia/about/</a></p> <p><strong>Games mentioned in this episode</strong></p> <ul> <li>Dungeons & Dragons (Wizards of the Coast)</li> <li>Magic: The Gathering (Wizards of the Coast)</li> <li><a href="https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year">The Quiet Year</a> (Buried Without Ceremony)</li> <li><a href="https://thornygames.com/pages/dialect">Dialect</a>: A Game About Language and How It Dies (Thorny Games)</li> <li><a href="https://robots.management/">Inhuman Conditions</a> (Tommy Maranges; Cory O'Brien; Mackenzie Schubert)</li> <li><a href="https://blackwellwriter.itch.io/delve-a-solo-map-drawing-game">Delve</a>: A Solo Map Drawing Game (Anna Blackwell)</li> <li><a href="https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/brave-sparrow">Brave Sparrow</a> (Buried Without Ceremony)</li> <li><a href="https://thousandyearoldvampire.com/">Thousand Year Old Vampire</a> (Tim Hutchings)</li> <li><a href="https://wehrlegig.com/products/pax-pamir-second-edition">Pax Pamir</a> (Cole Wehrle)</li> </ul> <p>***</p> <p>Produced by Dominic O’Key, Asa Roast, Liz Stainforth, and Oliver Thurley.</p> <p>Music by Dominic O’Key.</p>
March 29, 2022
<p>In this episode, we speak to <a href="http://www.ludicliberation.com/gamemaker">Natalia Stroika</a>, existential game maker/destroyer and founder of Ludic Liberation. </p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.ludicliberation.com/">http://www.ludicliberation.com/</a> </li> <li>The Lab Report - <a href="https://ludicliberation.substack.com/ ">https://ludicliberation.substack.com/ </a></li> </ul> <p>*** </p> <p><strong>Games mentioned in this episode </strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/nomic.htm">Nomic</a> (Peter Suber, 1982) - http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/nomic.htm</li> </ul> <p>***</p> <p>Produced by Dominic O’Key, Asa Roast, Liz Stainforth, and Oliver Thurley.</p> <p>Music by Dominic O’Key.</p>
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A podcast about tabletop role-playing games and academic research.
Part of 'Serious Play: Exploring Role-Playing Games as Practice-Led Research', a project by Oliver Thurley, Asa Roast, Liz Stainforth, and Dominic O’Key. Supported by the LAHRI Sadler series, University of Leeds, 2021-22.
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