Scholars At Play

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Scholars At Play is a podcast dedicated to the critical discussion of video games and their place in society and the academy.

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WIYS - 4 Aug 2017 - PUBG, Pokemon, and MechWarrior 06.08.2017 34:43

Enjoy this first (of hopefully many) standalone "What's In Your System?" We'll be releasing more of these shorter, more informal podcasts in the future, but DON'T WORRY we're still doing the longer thematic and academic/critical ones too. In this episode of WIYS we talk about our summers, One Weird Trick To Attract Female Pokemon, Hitman and Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, and MechWarrior Online, a...

Episode 5 - Unraveling Twine Games 29.05.2017 1:22:51

-------------- Sections: What is Twine?/Kopas Introduction - 5:45 SABBAT - 32:50 Eden - 40:39 Even Cowgirls Bleed - 46:09 Bogost's piece - 53:50 What's in Your System? - 1:09:20 -------------- Objects Discussed Texts: Introduction to “Videogames for Humans” (Merritt Kopas, 2015), “Video Games are Better Without Stories” in The Atlantic (Ian Bogost, 2016) Games: Gaming Pixie's "Eden," Christine Lov...

Episode 4 - From Big Brother to Tiny Brothers - Games and Surveillance 07.04.2017 1:24:12

Many thanks to our special guests Curtis Maughan and Pablo Abend! -------------- Sections (time = start of section): Guest Introductions - 1:57 Paper Summaries - 5:20 General Discussion - 17:42 Topic: Aesthetics, Surveillance, and Games - 56:13 What's in Your System? - 1:13:34 -------------- Objects Discussed Games: Orwell (2016), Watch Dogs I and II (2014, 2016), Pokemon Go (2016) --------------...

Episode 3 - Sid Meier's Civilization and its Discontents 10.03.2017 1:12:56

Sections (time = start of section): Intro - 0:00 Civ 5 - 2:46 Schut Article - 20:45 Galloway Chapter - 39:42 What's in Your System? - 1:01:46 -------------- Objects Discussed Game: Sid Meier's Civilization 5 (2010) Articles: "Strategic Simulations and Our Past: The Bias of Computer Games in the Presentation of History" (Kevin Schut, 2007) "Allegories of Control" - 4th chapter from book “Gaming: Es...

Episode 2 - Borders and Ritual in Papers, Please 01.02.2017 1:05:19

Objects Discussed Game: Papers, Please (Lucas Pope, 2013) Review: Videogame Utopia: Passage Denied, a “Papers Please” review (Rui Craveirinha, 2014) Article: Ritualization of Regulation: The Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion in the United States and China (Adam McKeown) -------------- Hosts: Derek Price - Twitter: https://twitter.com/digital_derek Terrell Taylor - Twitter: https://twitter.com/Blac...

Episode 1 - Narrative and Gameplay 11.11.2016 1:30:28

Objects Discussed Text: Ludonarrative Dissonance - (Clint Hocking) Game: Bioshock Video: "The Debate That Never Took Place" (Youtube: Errant Signal) -------------- Hosts: Derek Price - Twitter: (at)Digital_Derek Terrell Taylor - Twitter: (at)BlackSocrates Kyle Romero - Twitter: (at)e_kyle_romero -------------- Contact us! E-mail: scholarsatplaypodcast(at)gmail(dot)com Twitter: (at)ScholarsAtPlay...