Trying To Be Kind

Season 9, Episode 1: Asteroids or Whatever

Cardboard Ghosts: Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems, Amabel Holland, 2025 CRC Press.

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Season 9, Episode 0: I Stay Noided

Cardboard Ghosts: Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems, Amabel Holland, 2025 CRC Press.

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Season 8, Episode 3: Foucault Is In This One

The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy, Bernard De Koven. MIT Press, 2013.

Season 8, Episode 2: Feelings Are Facts

The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy, Bernard De Koven. MIT Press, 2013.

Season 8, Episode 1: Something You'd Like To Have, But Didn't Know You Wanted

The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy, Bernard De Koven. MIT Press, 2013.

Season 7, Episode 2: I Read Ulysses For Fun

"King Me": A Defense of King-Making in Board Game Design, Cole Wehrle, GDC, 2019.

 

Season 7, Episode 1: Manly Pride Offended

"King Me": A Defense of King-Making in Board Game Design, Cole Wehrle, GDC, 2019.

 

Season 7, Episode 0: The First TTRPG

As usual, a buffer episode to lead into the new season. In which we discuss some texts we might tackle, baseball stadiums, shame rooms, and social media.

Season 6, Episode 4: Fishsticks

With special guest, Sam Sorensen, author of Seas of Sand and Time After Time.

Critical Play: Radical Game Design, Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 2009.

Season 6, Episode 3: According to Very Reliable Psychological Sources

There's some intermittent noise in the first few minutes of this episode, my apologies, but it clears up after a bit. Thanks for bearing with us in this difficult time.

Critical Play: Radical Game Design, Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 2009.