Serious Play

Episode 5: C. Thi Nguyen

In this episode, we speak to C. Thi Nguyen, philosophy professor at University of Utah and author of Games: Agency As Art [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/games-9780190052089?cc=us&lang=en&] (OUP, 2020). We discuss point systems; agency in play; rules and constraints; and the problems of gamification. https://objectionable.net/ [https://objectionable.net/] Games mentioned in this episode: * The Mind - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244992/mind [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244992/mind] * Sign: A Game about Being Understood - https://thornygames.com/pages/sign [https://thornygames.com/pages/sign] * Apocalypse World - http://apocalypse-world.com/ [http://apocalypse-world.com/] * Monster of the Week - https://evilhat.com/product/monster-of-the-week/ [https://evilhat.com/product/monster-of-the-week/] * Night Witches - https://bullypulpitgames.com/games/night-witches/ [https://bullypulpitgames.com/games/night-witches/] * The Quiet Year - https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year [https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year] * Microscope - https://www.lamemage.com/microscope/ [https://www.lamemage.com/microscope/] *** Produced by Dominic O’Key, Asa Roast, Liz Stainforth, and Oliver Thurley. Music by Dominic O’Key.

Episode 4: Gabriele de Seta

In this episode, we speak to sociologist Gabriele de Seta [https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Gabriele.de.Seta] 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. http://paranom.asia/about/ [https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/e1k8ndd/metadata/%22] Games mentioned in this episode * Dungeons & Dragons (Wizards of the Coast) * Magic: The Gathering (Wizards of the Coast) * The Quiet Year [https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year] (Buried Without Ceremony) * Dialect [https://thornygames.com/pages/dialect]: A Game About Language and How It Dies (Thorny Games) * Inhuman Conditions [https://robots.management/] (Tommy Maranges; Cory O'Brien; Mackenzie Schubert) * Delve [https://blackwellwriter.itch.io/delve-a-solo-map-drawing-game]: A Solo Map Drawing Game (Anna Blackwell) * Brave Sparrow [https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/brave-sparrow] (Buried Without Ceremony) * Thousand Year Old Vampire [https://thousandyearoldvampire.com/] (Tim Hutchings) * Pax Pamir [https://wehrlegig.com/products/pax-pamir-second-edition] (Cole Wehrle) *** Produced by Dominic O’Key, Asa Roast, Liz Stainforth, and Oliver Thurley. Music by Dominic O’Key.

Episode 3: Natalia Stroika

In this episode, we speak to Natalia Stroika [http://www.ludicliberation.com/gamemaker], existential game maker/destroyer and founder of Ludic Liberation.  * http://www.ludicliberation.com/ [http://www.ludicliberation.com/]  * The Lab Report - https://ludicliberation.substack.com/  [https://ludicliberation.substack.com/ ] ***  Games mentioned in this episode  * Nomic [http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/nomic.htm] (Peter Suber, 1982) - http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/nomic.htm *** Produced by Dominic O’Key, Asa Roast, Liz Stainforth, and Oliver Thurley. Music by Dominic O’Key.

Episode 2: Jo Lindsay Walton

In this episode, we talk to Jo Lindsay Walton [https://www.jolindsaywalton.com/ ] (@jowalton [https://twitter.com/jolwalton]) about the Applied Hope [https://itch.io/jam/applied-hope] games jam and Utopia on the Tabletop project. * Applied Hope: The Solarpunk & Utopias Jam [https://itch.io/jam/applied-hope] - https://itch.io/jam/applied-hope * Sad Press Games [https://sadpress.itch.io/] - https://sadpress.itch.io/ *** Games mentioned in this episode: * "Powered by the Apocalypse" games - http://apocalypse-world.com/ * Roots & Flowers - https://thegiftofdice.itch.io/roots-and-flowers * Lasers & Feelings - https://johnharper.itch.io/lasers-feelings * The Transition Year - https://affinity-games.itch.io/the-transition-year * Monster of the Week - https://www.evilhat.com/home/monster-of-the-week/ * How to Ooze Charm in the Future - https://paulczege.itch.io/how-to-ooze-charm-in-the-future *** Produced by Dominic O’Key, Asa Roast, Liz Stainforth, and Oliver Thurley.  Music by Dominic O’Key.

Episode 1: Introduction

In this first episode, we lay out the project at hand: how might tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) inform the practice of doing academic research. *** Games mentioned in this episode: * Dungeons & Dragons - https://dnd.wizards.com/ * MOTHERSHIP - https://www.mothershiprpg.com/ * The Quiet Year - https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year * The Veil - https://samjokopublishing.com/products/the-veil-cyberpunk-ttrpg *** Produced by Oliver Thurley, Asa Roast, Liz Stainforth, and Dominic O’Key.  Music by Dominic O’Key.