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Om podden
This is a podcast where your friends Cameron Kunzelman and Michael Lutz read books about games and discuss them chapter-by-chapter. We’re exploring the big world of game studies, and we want you to come along!
You can find Cameron on Twitter @ckunzelman, and you can find Michael @warrenisdead.
The podcast Game Studies Study Buddies is created by Ranged Touch. The podcast and the artwork on this page are embedded on this page using the public podcast feed (RSS).
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76 – Trammell – Repairing Play
1 december 2024 |
106 min
We talk about Aaron Trammell’s Repairing Play. It is open access on The MIT Press’s website: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5530/Repairing-PlayA-Black-Phenomenology
Note: Did one last final check — Riven did eventually release for the Sega Saturn.
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75 – Jameson – Postmodernism
31 oktober 2024 |
151 min
We talk about Fredric Jameson’s “Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism” which was originally published in New Left Review in 1984.
Note: Checked one more time — Riven did eventually release for the Sega Saturn.
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74 – Guerra – Slantwise Moves
30 september 2024 |
93 min
We talk about Douglas Guerra’s Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America.
Note: Checked again — Riven did eventually release for the Sega Saturn.
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73 – Wardrip-Fruin – How Pac-Man Eats
31 augusti 2024 |
142 min
We talk about Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s How Pac-Man Eats.
Note: Still confirming that Riven eventually released for the Sega Saturn.
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72 – Myst: Masterpiece Edition
30 juli 2024 |
120 min
We talk about Cyan’s Myst.
Note: Riven did eventually come out for the Sega Saturn.
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71 – Pinchbeck – Doom: Scarydarkfast
1 juli 2024 |
87 min
We talk about Dan Pinchbeck’s Doom: Scarydarkfast.
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70 – De Koven – The Well-Played Game
31 maj 2024 |
min
We talk about Bernard De Koven’s The Well-Played Game.
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69 – Hunter – Playing Real
30 april 2024 |
119 min
We talk about Lindsay Brandon Hunter’s Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief.
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68 – Švelch – Player vs Monster
1 april 2024 |
90 min
We talk about Jaroslav Švelch’s Player vs Monster.
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67 – Kelly González – Ready Player Juan
28 februari 2024 |
111 min
We talk about Carlos Gabriel Kelly González’s Ready Player Juan.
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66 – Cote – Gaming Sexism
31 januari 2024 |
112 min
65 – Ito – Engineering Play
31 december 2023 |
106 min
We talk about Mizuko Ito’s Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children’s Software.
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64 – Nguyen – The Digital Is Kid Stuff
30 november 2023 |
76 min
We talk about Josef Nguyen’s 2021 book The Digital Is Kid Stuff: Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy.
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63 – Kinder – Playing With Power
31 oktober 2023 |
103 min
We talk about Marsha Kinder’s 1991 classic Playing With Power.
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62 – Ryan – Narrative As Virtual Reality
30 september 2023 |
95 min
We talk about Marie-Laure Ryan’s 2001 book Narrative As Virtual Reality.
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61 – Hon – You’ve Been Played
31 augusti 2023 |
146 min
We talk about Adrian Hon’s You’ve Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games To Control Us All.
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60 – Nguyen – Games: Agency As Art
31 juli 2023 |
144 min
We talk about C. Thi Nguyen’s Games: Agency As Art
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59 – Bódi – Videogames and Agency
30 juni 2023 |
97 min
We talk about Bettina Bódi’s Videogames and Agency.
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58 – Indie Game: The Movie
31 maj 2023 |
99 min
We talk about 2012’s Indie Game: The Movie.
Ryerson piece referenced: https://web.archive.org/web/20120718043913/http://midnightresistance.co.uk/articles/indie-game-movie-review
Ryerson podcast referenced: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10a-white-collar-mario-from-the-future/id1475437756?i=1000524299956
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57 – The Last of Us Roundtable
27 april 2023 |
97 min
We’re joined by TreaAndrea Russworm, Jesse Ramirez, and Gerry Canavan to talk about The Last of Us game and television show.
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56 – Sudnow – Pilgrim in the Microworld
30 mars 2023 |
94 min
We discuss David Sudnow’s 1983 classic Pilgrim in the Microworld.
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55 – Isbister – How Games Move Us
28 februari 2023 |
104 min
We discuss Katherine Isbister’s How Games Move Us: Emotion By Design.
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54 – Rubin – Well Met
31 januari 2023 |
203 min
We discuss Rachel Lee Rubin’s 2012 book Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture.
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54 – Gee – What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
30 december 2022 |
134 min
We discuss James Paul Gee’s 2003 book What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy.
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53 – Mukherjee – Video Games and Storytelling
30 november 2022 |
105 min
We discuss Souvik Mukherjee’s 2015 book Video Games and Storytelling.
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52 – Woodcock – Marx at the Arcade
31 oktober 2022 |
84 min
We discuss 2019’s Marx at the Arcade by Jamie Woodcock.
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51 – Suits – The Grasshopper
29 september 2022 |
137 min
We discuss 1978’s The Grasshopper, a book on the philosophy of games.
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50 – Dovey and Kennedy – Game Cultures
31 augusti 2022 |
131 min
We discuss 2006’s Game Cultures, an early and formative book of game studies by Dovey and Kennedy.
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49 – Hall – Cultural Studies 1983
29 juli 2022 |
152 min
We discuss Stuart Hall’s Cultural Studies 1983, published in 2016.
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48 – Fine – Shared Fantasy
29 juni 2022 |
134 min
We discuss Gary Alan Fine’s foundational book Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds from 1983.
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47 – White – Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge
31 maj 2022 |
225 min
We discuss William J. White’s Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, 2001-2012.
Austin Walker joins us in this episode.
46 – Peterson – The Elusive Shift
28 april 2022 |
133 min
We discuss Jon Peterson’s The Elusive Shift: How Role Playing Games Forged Their Identity.
45 – Schleiner – The Player’s Power To Change the Game
31 mars 2022 |
121 min
We discuss Anne-Marie Schleiner’s The Player’s Power To Change the Game – Ludic Mutation.
44 – Cassidy – Vicious Games
28 februari 2022 |
134 min
We discuss Rebecca Cassidy’s Vicious Games: Capitalism and Gambling.
43 – Schüll – Addiction By Design
31 januari 2022 |
173 min
We discuss Natasha Dow Schüll’s Addiction By Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas.
42 – Saler – As If
31 december 2021 |
136 min
We discuss Michael Saler’s As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality.
41 – Giddings – Gameworlds
30 november 2021 |
108 min
We discuss Seth Giddings’ Gameworlds: Virtual Media and Children’s Everyday Play.
40 – Ranciere – The Ignorant Schoolmaster
27 oktober 2021 |
121 min
We discuss Jacques Ranciere’s The Ignorant Schoolmaster.
39 – Crogan – Gameplay Mode
30 september 2021 |
126 min
We talk about Patrick Crogan’s Gameplay Mode: War, Simulation, and Technoculture.
38 – Taylor – Play Between Worlds
31 augusti 2021 |
129 min
We talk about T.L. Taylor’s Play Between Worlds.
37 – Buckles – Interactive Fiction
30 juli 2021 |
137 min
We talk about Mary Ann Buckles’ 1985 dissertation Interactive Fiction: The Computer Storygame “Adventure.”
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36 – Manovich – The Language of New Media
30 juni 2021 |
162 min
We talk about Lev Manovich’s The Language of New Media.
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35 – Patterson – Open World Empire
31 maj 2021 |
145 min
We talk about Christopher Patterson’s Open World Empire.
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34 – Milburn – Mondo Nano
30 april 2021 |
138 min
We discuss Colin Milburn’s Mondo Nano.
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33 – Laurel – Computers As Theatre
31 mars 2021 |
103 min
We discuss the second edition of Brenda Laurel’s Computers as Theatre.
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32 – Fickle – The Race Card
26 februari 2021 |
149 min
We discuss Tara Fickle’s 2019 book The Race Card.
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31 – Nakamura – Cybertypes
29 januari 2021 |
141 min
We discuss Lisa Nakamura’s 2002 book Cybertypes.
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30 – Welsh – Mixed Realism
29 december 2020 |
146 min
We discuss Timothy J. Welsh’s Mixed Realism.
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29 – Gray – Intersectional Tech
30 november 2020 |
126 min
We discuss Kishonna Gray’s Intersectional Tech.
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28 – Wark – Gamer Theory
30 oktober 2020 |
129 min
We discuss McKenzie Wark’s Gamer Theory.
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27 – Bailes – Ideology and the Virtual City
29 september 2020 |
136 min
We discuss Jon Bailes’ Ideology and the Virtual City and learn a thing or two about psychoanalysis and Marxism.
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26 – Calleja – In-Game
28 augusti 2020 |
135 min
We discuss Gordon Calleja’s In-Game and learn a little bit about immersion.
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25 – Murray – On Video Games
31 juli 2020 |
125 min
We discuss Soraya Murray’s On Video Games.
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24 – Laxton – Surrealism at Play
30 juni 2020 |
150 min
We discuss Susan Laxton’s Surrealism at Play.
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23 – Csikszentmihalyi – Flow
29 maj 2020 |
104 min
We discuss Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.
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22 – Chang – Playing Nature
27 april 2020 |
123 min
We discuss Alenda Chang’s Playing Nature.
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21 – Pearce – Communities of Play
31 mars 2020 |
147 min
We discuss Celia Pearce’s Communities of Play.
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20 – The King of Kong
29 februari 2020 |
112 min
We watched The King of Kong to learn about the antics of Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell.
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19 – Kocurek – Coin-Operated Americans
31 januari 2020 |
124 min
We read Carly Kocurek’s excellent Coin-Operated Americans to learn about arcades and masculinity.
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18 – Jenkins – Game Design As Narrative Architecture
31 december 2019 |
98 min
We delve deep into Henry Jenkins’ essay “Game Design as Narrative Architecture,” a classic in the game studies field.
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17 – Hans – The Play of the World
30 november 2019 |
196 min
We delve deep into James S. Hans’ The Play of the World, a little-known text about the philosophy of play from 1981.
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16 – Aarseth – Cybertext
1 oktober 2019 |
165 min
We check out Espen Aarseth’s classic Cybertext.
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15 – Paul – Wordplay
2 september 2019 |
110 min
We discuss Chris Paul’s Wordplay.
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14 – James – Beyond A Boundary
30 juli 2019 |
117 min
We discuss C.L.R. James’s Beyond a Boundary.
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13 – Huizinga – Homo Ludens
29 juni 2019 |
146 min
We discuss Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens.
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12 – Anable – Playing With Feelings
29 maj 2019 |
143 min
We discuss Aubrey Anable’s Playing With Feelings.
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11 – Galloway – Gaming
30 april 2019 |
107 min
We discuss Alexander Galloway’s Gaming.
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10 – Phillips – Shooting To Kill
30 mars 2019 |
74 min
We discuss some beach reads, and do a short episode on Amanda Phillips’ essay “Shooting to Kill: Headshots, Twitch, Reflexes, and the Mechropolitics of Video Games,” which was published in Games & Culture in 2018.
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9 – Dyer-Witheford and de Peuter – Games of Empire
27 februari 2019 |
170 min
We discuss Games of Empire by Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter, a book that discusses games, capitalism, and new forms of labor that constitute a little something called Empire. There might be some room for resistance as well.
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8 – Bloom – Gaming The Stage
24 januari 2019 |
158 min
We discuss Gina Bloom’s Gaming the Stage, a book about the relationship between games and theater in the early modern era.
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7 – End of 2018 Wrapup
31 december 2018 |
83 min
This is the seventh episode of Game Studies Study Buddies, a podcast where your two co-hosts read through works of academic game studies and talk about it. If you’re interested in that, you might like this show!
We’ve been “holiday busy,” so this is an end-of-year wrapup show while we prepare for the next book!
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6 – Gaunt – The Games Black Girls Play
22 november 2018 |
133 min
This is the sixth episode of Game Studies Study Buddies, a podcast where your two co-hosts read through works of academic game studies and talk about it. If you’re interested in that, you might like this show!
This episode is about Kyra D. Gaunt’s The Games Black Girls Play, a book about the ethnomusicology of music games in African American culture in the 20th and 21st century.
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5 – Caillois – Man, Play and Games
18 oktober 2018 |
133 min
This is the fifth episode of Game Studies Study Buddies, a podcast where your two co-hosts read through works of academic game studies and talk about it. If you’re interested in that, you might like this show!
This episode is about Roger Caillois’s Man, Play and Games, a book that is critical in the history of game studies.
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4 – Ensslin – Literary Gaming
14 september 2018 |
120 min
This is the fourth episode of Game Studies Study Buddies, a podcast where your two co-hosts read through works of academic game studies and talk about it. If you’re interested in that, you might like this show!
This episode is about Astrid Ensslin’s 2014 Literary Gaming, a book that argues for the existence of the literary-ludic spectrum and the mappability of games between those two poles. Do we agree? Listen and find out!
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3 – Murray – Hamlet On The Holodeck
17 augusti 2018 |
175 min
This is the third episode of Game Studies Study Buddies, a podcast where your two co-hosts read through works of academic game studies and talk about it. If you’re interested in that, you might like this show!
This episode is about Janet Murray’s Hamlet On The Holodeck, a classic book in the game studies canon. It argues that procedural media fundamentally changes the stakes of how narrative functions. It was originally published in 1997, and so the question remains: what does it offer us now? We investigate.
Here is a link to a post with some information about some of the references we made in this episode.
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2 – Chess – Ready Player Two
20 juli 2018 |
106 min
This is the second episode of Game Studies Study Buddies, a podcast where your two co-hosts read through works of academic game studies and talk about it. If you’re interested in that, you might like this show!
This episode is about Shira Chess’s Ready Player Two, a book that argues for the concept of the “designed identity” of the target audience of casual games. We have a great time talking about the book, designed identity as a method, and actor-network theory. The book has some great insights, and we really dig into how it works.
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1 – Juul – Half Real
7 juni 2018 |
83 min
This is the first episode of Game Studies Study Buddies, a podcast where your two co-hosts read through works of academic game studies and talk about it. If you’re interested in that, you might like this show!
This episode is about Jesper Juul’s 2005 book Half Real, a formative book for the study of games. We talk about the whole book!
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