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EPISODE · Jun 23, 2016 · 55 MIN

13. Evan Torner

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What do game design and education design have to say to each other? How about larp and VR? Larpwright and academic Evan Torner joins us to talk uncertainty, ideology, transparency, and other fun things hiding in your games. Evan's website Evan on twitter Evan's talk on Teaching German Literature Through Larp Eirik Fatland What's a "nanogame?" Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" Larps from the Factory The #Feminism Nanogames Anthology The Golden Cobra Challenge What's "Jeepform?" DiGRA Ernest Hemmingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" Dante's Inferno, from The Divine Comedy Dante's Inferno, the video game Robin D. Laws' "Hamet's Hit Points" Mary Flanagan Ian Bogost Lizzie Magie's "The Landlord's Game" The Wyrd Con Companion Books Greg Costikyan's "Uncertainty in Games" Inside Hamlet Treasure Trapped Darkon Uber Goober Delirium College of Wizardry EVE Online Undertale Slayer Cake (and many more!) Analog Game Studies Gone Home

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