We discuss Susan Laxton’s Surrealism at Play. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon, where you can also get our notes for this episode for $3 a month! Chris Hunt created the… Continue reading 24 – Laxton – Surrealism at Play
We discuss Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon, where you can also get our notes for this episode for $3 a month! Chris… Continue reading 23 – Csikszentmihalyi – Flow
We discuss Alenda Chang’s Playing Nature. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon, where you can also get our notes for this episode for $3 a month! Chris Hunt created the theme… Continue reading 22 – Chang – Playing Nature
We discuss Celia Pearce’s Communities of Play. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon, where you can also get our notes for this episode for $3 a month! Chris Hunt created the… Continue reading 21 – Pearce – Communities of Play
We watched The King of Kong to learn about the antics of Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon, where you can also get our notes for… Continue reading 20 – The King of Kong
We read Carly Kocurek’s excellent Coin-Operated Americans to learn about arcades and masculinity. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon, where you can also get our notes for this episode for $3… Continue reading 19 – Kocurek – Coin-Operated Americans
We delve deep into Henry Jenkins’ essay “Game Design as Narrative Architecture,” a classic in the game studies field. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon, where you can also get our… Continue reading 18 – Jenkins – Game Design As Narrative Architecture
We delve deep into James S. Hans’ The Play of the World, a little-known text about the philosophy of play from 1981. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon, where you can… Continue reading 17 – Hans – The Play of the World
We check out Espen Aarseth’s classic Cybertext. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon, where you can also get our notes for this episode for $3 a month! Chris Hunt created the… Continue reading 16 – Aarseth – Cybertext
We discuss Chris Paul’s Wordplay. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon, where you can also get our notes for this episode for $3 a month! Chris Hunt created the theme song… Continue reading 15 – Paul – Wordplay
We discuss C.L.R. James’s Beyond a Boundary. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon, where you can also get our notes for this episode for $3 a month! Chris Hunt created the… Continue reading 14 – James – Beyond A Boundary
We discuss Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon, where you can also get our notes for this episode for $3 a month! Chris Hunt created the theme… Continue reading 13 – Huizinga – Homo Ludens
We discuss Aubrey Anable’s Playing With Feelings. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon, where you can also get our notes for this episode for $3 a month! Chris Hunt created the… Continue reading 12 – Anable – Playing With Feelings
We discuss Alexander Galloway’s Gaming. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon, where you can also get our notes for this episode for $3 a month! Chris Hunt created the theme song… Continue reading 11 – Galloway – Gaming
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. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel.… Continue reading 10 – Phillips – Shooting To Kill
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. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our… Continue reading 9 – Dyer-Witheford and de Peuter – Games of Empire...
We discuss Gina Bloom’s Gaming the Stage, a book about the relationship between games and theater in the early modern era. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon, where you can also get our… Continue reading 8 – Bloom – Gaming The Stage
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!… Continue reading 7 – End of 2018 Wrapup
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… Continue reading 6 – Gaunt – The Games Black Girls Play
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… Continue reading 5 – Caillois – Man, Play and Games
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… Continue reading 4 – Ensslin – Literary Gaming
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.… Continue reading 3 – Murray – Hamlet On The Holodeck
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… Continue reading 2 – Chess – Ready Player Two
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.… Continue reading 1 – Juul – Half Real
