Feed Drop!! In this new podcast, Derek, Zach, and friends talk through games and media, together.Subscribe to Two Player Theory Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-n3ieq-11a3b2eSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0e6LX1a3MmR7nJkza5Pi49?si=1e7648dd3ca74a92In this first episode, we talk about Zelda's newest open-world game, Tears of the Kin…

Derek and Kyle sit down to talk about Derek's recently-completed dissertation "The Work of Nonfiction: Simulator Games in Germany." Derek talks about the history of simulator games, the specific simulators he studies, and what we can learn from games all about machines and work.Timestamps0:00 - Intro4:11 - Theory, text, and context in research8:30 …

Subscribe to Dodging Hollow on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dodging-hollowEdited intro music is "Day Bird" by Broke for Free, Creative Commons by attribution. Check out their music here: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Directionless_EPVon Scholars At Play

The scholars may be physically distant, but that won't stop them from talking about all their quarantine gaming! Join us for an EXTRA long "What's In You System" where we talk about how our gaming has changed during the ongoing pandemic.-----------Games Discussed: Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Animal Crossing, Link Between Worlds…

Von Scholars At Play

--------------Derek, Kyle, Curtis, and Sabeen have a conversation about the opportunities and challenges in using digital games to teach history. This episode was recorded live at "Learning at Play," a 1-day symposium on games for learning and social change which took place at Vanderbilt on 8 November 2019. For more on the event, see: https://cft.v…

Episode 14 - Metagaming--------------Derek, Kyle, and Terrell finally get it together and have a long, winding conversation about Dr. Stephanie Boluk and Dr. Patrick LeMieux's book "Metagaming" and the kinds of games we like to play with games.--------------Objects DiscussedTexts:- "Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Mak…

In a special episode, Derek sits down with Pascal Wagner (Language At Play, Polyneux, GAIN Magazin) to talk about their experiences at A MAZE 2019, an independent festival for games that happens every year in Berlin. They talk about the great games and talks they saw, as well as some games they had some more critical reactions to. See below for a m…

The Scholars are back! After traveling through time and space, Derek has finally reunited with his stateside counterparts, Kyle and Terrell, to catch up and see "What's In Your System?" We talk about what we've been playing over the last few months, especially Heat Signature, Castlevania (the games and the show), the diverging narratives of Warhamm…

Content Warning: discussions of sexual abuse and assault--------------Sabeen Ahmed returns to join us for an important discussion about the way Persona 5 handles sexual assault, abuse, and power, and how it feels to play Persona 5 in the middle of the #MeToo movement in the U.S.--------------Objects DiscussedTexts:- Against Interpretation (Susan So…

This special episode is a recording of a digital colloquium that took place on April 16th, 2018. Sponsored by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities and the Center for Digital Humanities at Vanderbilt University, and organized by the RPW Seminar "Taking Play Seriously," this panel featured games industry vet Bill Harms (Mafia III, Infamou…

https://www.patreon.com/ScholarsAtPlayVon Scholars At Play

Ted Dawson joins Derek, Kyle and Terrell to talk about what "The Anthropocene" and "ecocriticism" are, why they matter, and what we need to do to save the world. Well, at least in "The Fate of the World."--------------Objects DiscussedTexts:- "The Climate of History: Four Theses" (Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2009)- "Greenshifting Game Studies" (Hans-Joachi…

---------------Tired: Scholars at Play--Wired: HISTORIANS AT PLAY--In this episode, Kyle takes over and forces Derek and Terrell to talk about history and strategy games again. Joined by special guest Henry Gorman, History PhD candidate and lover of Paradox games, the four talk through what it means for games to be historical or to represent histor…

---------------Tired: Scholars at Play--Wired: HISTORIANS AT PLAY--In this episode, Kyle takes over and forces Derek and Terrell to talk about history and strategy games again. Joined by special guest Henry Gorman, History PhD candidate and lover of Paradox games, the four talk through what it means for games to be historical or to represent histor…

In this episode of What's In Your System?, Derek, Kyle, and Terrell talk about the new (and old) games they've been playing in the new year.Von Scholars At Play

In the second half of our game of the year podcast series, Kyle, Derek, and Terrell talk about their Greatest Escape, the most "2017" game, SAP's Game of the Year, games we would recommend to each other, and the best games we didn't play.Also, if you're curious about our personal Top 5 lists, check them out on our website!http://scholarsatplay.net/…

In Part 1 of our Games of the Year podcast series, we talk about the games we thought had the Biggest Impact, our favorite moments in games, and we play another of Qyle's Qrazy Quizzes!Von Scholars At Play

In this episode, we answer some questions from listeners! We talk about powerlessness in horror games, loot boxes, the lack of variety in big-budget games, and much more! Plus, Kyle quizzes us on our knowledge of Metacritic's ranking algorithm... err, I mean, the Games of the Year from 2014 - 2016, and reveals the secrets of 'stairs money!'…

In this episode, Derek, Terrell, and Kyle talk about Supermassive Game's 2015 horror hit "Until Dawn" and work through its relationship with the tropes and language of cinematic horror, as well as the game's "Butterfly Effect" system. Note: this episode DEFINITELY contains spoilers. You have been warned.----------Objects DiscussedTexts:- Espen Aars…

In this extra-long, bonus, feature-length episode, special guest Sabeen Ahmed joins us for a discussion about how games intersect with contemporary political activism. We work through some of the regressive tendencies in modern gaming cultures, take up Bogost's idea of procedural rhetoric, and talk about how a few games from the recent #ResistJam m…

---What's In Your System? (WIYS) - Friday, August 18th, 2017---It's Friday and we're chilling not 10 feet away from Kyle's glorious stairs and sharing our thoughts about loot-crate logic in PUBG and the differences/similarities between Breath of the Wild and Horizon Zero Dawn. We also debate the pronunciation of "verisimilitude" and regretfully ann…

--------------Objects DiscussedText:Introduction to “The Limits of Critique” (Rita Felski, 2015)Game:The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 2017)Video(s):“Breath of the Wild: The Best Game Ever” (YT: Cool Ghosts, 2017) https://youtu.be/ZLRedgWqejo“Stuff That Bugs Me About the Thing Everyone Likes Right Now” (YT: Super Bunnyhop, 2017) ht…

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 Playerun…

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

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

Sections (time = start of section):Intro - 0:00Civ 5 - 2:46Schut Article - 20:45Galloway Chapter - 39:42What's in Your System? - 1:01:46--------------Objects DiscussedGame: 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 Cont…

Objects DiscussedGame: 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_derekTerrell…

Objects DiscussedText: ​Ludonarrative Dissonance​ - (Clint Hocking)Game: BioshockVideo: "The Debate That Never Took Place" (Youtube: Errant Signal)--------------Hosts: Derek Price - Twitter: (at)Digital_DerekTerrell Taylor - Twitter: (at)BlackSocratesKyle Romero - Twitter: (at)e_kyle_romero--------------Contact us!E-mail: scholarsatplaypodcast(at)g…