Podcast
Game Studies Study Buddies
Learn all about the academic field of game studies!
- Video Games chart
- #69
- Episodes
- 99
- Releases
- Monthly
- Typical length
- 1 hr 54 min
- On air since
- 2018
- Latest episode
- 1 month ago
Episodes
99 episodes, newest first
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1 hr 47 min
98 – Wing – Bounce
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1 hr 54 min
97 – McDonald – Run and Jump
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2 hr 21 min
96 – Barthes – Camera Lucida
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2 hr 2 min
95 – Nardo – The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
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1 hr 57 min
94 – Taylor – The Grounds of Gaming
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2 hr 52 min
93 – Sutton-Smith – The Ambiguity of Play
Show notes
We talk about Brian Sutton-Smith’s 1997 book.
We talk about the 2004 documentary War Game.
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1 hr 27 min
92 – War Game
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1 hr 38 min
91 – Game Studies vol. 1, issue 1
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1 hr 4 min
90 – Crawford – The Art of Computer Game Design
Show notes
We talk about the 1984 book The Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford.
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1 hr 53 min
89 – Get Lamp
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2 hr 10 min
88 – Bowling For Columbine
Show notes
We talk about the 2002 film Bowling For Columbine.
Content warning for school shooting footage and gun violence and death footage in the film itself (and our discussion of it).
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2 hr 59 min
87 – Fisher – Capitalist Realism
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1 hr 21 min
86 – Jacob Geller
Show notes
Michael is out on family leave, so Jacob Geller comes in for an interview about making YouTube videos.
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1 hr 5 min
85 – American Truck Simulator
Show notes
The Summer of Simulation ends with an American Truck Simulator episode.
You can watch the video version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/C1n8zfXSek0
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2 hr 33 min
84 – Baudrillard – Simulacra and Simulation
Show notes
We talk about Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation.
You can find Historiographies of Game Studies here.
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1 hr 50 min
83 – Raser – Simulation and Society
Show notes
We talk about John R. Raser’s Simulation and Society.
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2 hr 35 min
82 – Gunkel – Gaming the System
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1 hr 34 min
81 – Jørgensen – Gameworld Interfaces
Show notes
We talk about Kristine Jørgensen’s Gameworld Interfaces.
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2 hr 4 min
80 – Grand Theft Hamlet
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1 hr 45 min
79 – Humphreys – Manifest Destiny 2.0
Show notes
We talk about Sara Humphreys’ Manifest Destiny 2.0: Genre Trouble in Game Worlds.
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