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Video Games and Human Values Initiative Latest Thoughts Podcast

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A blog to host the VGHVI podcast
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VGHVI Podcast 006

The podcast branches out, with a critical discussion of Bioshock recorded during a simultaneous play session! Let us know what you think of this new format. (Podcasts 004 and 005 do exist, and may see the light of day in the future. Their content is, however, so incendiary that much care has to be taken. The preceding sentence is false.) Direct link to podcast . Featured interlocutors: Michael Abbott David Carlton Denis Farr Eric Swain Jonathan Mills Michel McBride-Charpentier Roger Travis Matte...

Jan 15, 2010

VGHVI Latest Thoughts Podcast 003

VGHVI Latest Thoughts Podcast with Roger Travis and Mike Young, professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education and director of UConn’s educational technology program. Roger and Mike discuss the problem of fun as it relates to learning. When you co-opt a game for learning, is it possible to keep the fun? Produced by Randy Ma. (Here's a direct link to the podcast.) Mike Young’s information at UConn Mike's thread on co-opting games for learning Situa...

Jun 24, 2009

VGHVI Latest Thoughts Podcast 002

VGHVI Latest Thoughts Podcast with Roger Travis and Jeff Howard, author of Quests: Design, Theory, and History in Games and Narratives . Roger and Jeff discuss the meaning of magic systems in games, and Jeff's work on his forthcoming game, Arcana Manor . Produced (heroically) by Randy Ma. (Here's a direct link to the podcast.) Jeff's Howard's Designing Quests site , with information on Arcana Manor here . I'll try to have more detailed show notes up later this week, but I'm headed to Pittsburgh ...

Jun 15, 2009

VGHVI Latest Thoughts Podcast 001

VGHVI Latest Thoughts Podcast with Michael Abbott, the Brainy Gamer. Roger and Michael discuss the state of academic discourse about games in relation to the "middle circle" of game criticism, and the table we think VGHVI brings to the conversation. Features Roger Travis and Michael Abbott. Produced by Randy Ma. (Here's a direct link to the podcast.) Apologies for the lowness of my voice both in frequency and in volume. The former was a problem with a cold, now resolved, the latter a problem wit...

Jun 01, 2009
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