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Gaming Broadcast
by GamingBroadly.com
A broad who games talking about gaming (broadly speaking). Gaming Broad(cast) is a (mostly) series-based internet radio show that explores all the places play exists. Official podcast of GamingBroadly.com.
Episodes
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Ep. 27: Savepoint (The Game's Not Over Yet)
Hi! It's been a wild year. Thanks to Ian Danskin of Innuendo Studios for a conversation on loss, life, happiness, and home (and a little bit about games). Special thanks to Ben Cohn for the music ("File Select" from Land of the Gods, Vol II).
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Ep. 26: Appalachians Play Everquest, II (Playing Appalachia Part 7)
I know it's been a while, but I'm here to prove that this podcast isn't history! Even though this episode is all about history! This week we're joined by Josh Howard, public historian, Everquest enthusiast, bacon admirer, to dig down deep into what it means to love precarious places. From…
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Ep. 25: Death Mountain Lifestyle (Playing Appalachia Part 6)
So what exactly is a mountain lifestyle? Is it a marketing phrase? A type of view from your window? A bonified set of cultural practices? Whatever it is, it must be pretty awesome, considering how awesomely expensive the mountain lifestyle is getting these days! This week we're joined by Shaun...
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Ep. 24: Gaming Religion (Live Recording from SXSW 2018)
Hey Broadbeans! Today we’re interrupting our regularly scheduled programming to bring you a special live recording! On March 13th 2018, JD had the great honor of sitting alongside Dr. Gregory Grieve, Dr. Vit Sisler, and Helen Osman for a panel at SXSW titled “Gaming Religion: Finding Faith in...
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Ep. 23: The Streamers of Madison County (Playing Appalachia Part 5)
Creeks aren't the only types of mountain streams in Appalachia. We also have video game live streams! This week we're joined by Renee Hill, a pastry chef, gamer, and video game live streamer known as "The Caked Crusader". Renee currently lives in Madison County, the same county in Western North...
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Ep. 22: Modding Appalachia (Playing Appalachia Part 4)
What do Minecraft and Appalachia have in common? They both have people trying to modify them. So could Minecraft mods teach us something about how to go about ethically modding Appalachia? This week we're joined by Jerel Culliss (aka King Lemming), an Appalachian-raised engineer who moonlights as…
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Ep. 21: Rural Flight, Virtually Speaking (Playing Appalachia Part 3)
Meredith Wilson is participating in rural flight, virtually speaking. As young people from Appalachia increasingly move out of the region, Meredith Wilson has done something strange: moved to rural Virginia to make virtual reality video games. Meredith Wilson is a public health epidemiologist...
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Ep. 20: #ReclaimTheBasement (Live Recording from PAX South 2018)
In the golden age of massively multiplayer online games like Overwatch and Destiny, why are some players choosing to go it alone? Is it a radical act of self-care, anti-social tendencies, an effect of online harassment, or something else? Take a break from Gaming Broad(cast)'s regularly scheduled...
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Ep. 19: Kentucky Route Zero and the Route to Appalachia (Playing Appalachia Part 2)
It's near impossible to talk about Appalachia and video games, and games that "get Appalachia right", without talking about Kentucky Route Zero. The game itself is mysterious, filled with empty space and people with featureless faces, a five-part digital theater that leaves enough room for...
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Ep. 18: What Games Are Getting Right About Appalachia (Playing Appalachia Part 1)
In 2016, the United States collectively pointed a trembling finger of accusation at the Appalachian region. The verdict was in: America was screwed, and “Trump Country” was to blame. Journalists began to flock to the region, looking to demystify and correctly identify the dysfunctional roots of...
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Ep. 17: Triple A Blues (Developer Doldrums Part 3)
What does it mean to work in AAA game development? In the gaming community, the term "AAA" (pronounced “triple A”) comes with a lot of baggage. While at face value AAA is just an informal way to classify games and games studios that have the highest development and marketing budgets, the category...
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Ep. 16: Long Distance Bromance (Developer Doldrums Part 2)
Long distance relationships are enough to make anyone sad. Throw in making a game together? Even sadder! How do long distance game developers stay in the game? As hard as it is to build something together when you’re not, you know, actually together, Michael and Ben of Hydezeke are proof that…
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Ep. 15: Grief, Game Development, and the Emotional Significance of Oatmeal (Developer Doldrums Part 1)
Andrea Ayres, creator of The Average Everyday Adventures of Samantha Browne, makes me feel a lot of things about hot cereal. The making of the Average Everyday Adventures of Samantha Browne shows that oatmeal has more to do with grief and game development than you might expect. Born on the heels…
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Ep. 14: The Violent Femmes of Women's Rugby (Violence & Video Games Part 5)
There’s a lot of assumptions folks make about violence and video games, from beliefs that violence in video games cause real life violent crime, to the stereotype that violence in video games is intended only for our more dudely players. But what about the violence that happens in real life…
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Ep. 13: The Unbearable Anxiety of Tweeting (Violence & Video Games Part 4)
Subtweeting is all the rage these days. And no, we don't mean tweeting from a Subway. Rae Sterling, writer and twitter role-player, joins us this week to talk about how (and why) passive-aggressiveness crops up in online gaming spaces. Join us this week to learn more about Twitter roleplay, the...
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Ep. 12: Why Are You Afraid of Virtual Reality? (Violence & Video Games Part 3)
The next frontier of video game development is the virtual one, and research about the impact of violence in Virtual Realiy (VR) has started to gear up (if Dr. Chris Ferguson of Episode 10 is any indication). This week JD continues the conversation about violence in video games by chatting about...
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Ep. 11: Why Are You So Angry? (Violence & Video Games Part 2)
Ian Danskin of Innuendo Studios joins JD this week to talk the WHY of violence. Specifically, why does violence matter so much to so many people who play games? Ian explores why the mission to keep violence in video games feels so personal to so many people, and why conversations about the…
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Ep. 10: Moral Combat--Why the War on Violent Video Games is Wrong (Violence & Video Games Part 1)
In a time of nation-wide unrest and division, it's surprising to hear that politicians from both sides of the aisle are united on one thing: violent video games are bad and must be stopped. Blamed for everything from school shootings, suicide, and even rickets, video games have been shouldering…
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Ep. 09: Improv Games and the Art of Failure (Video Games with People Who Don't Like Playing Video Games Part 4)
Tune in to witness something that some might say is impossible… the changing of one man’s heart. This week JD interviews Jeremy Moran, a filmmaker, artist, and improv actor, whose consistent failure in the gaming arena USED to mean he disliked playing them all together. In Episode 09: Improv…
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Ep. 08: Learning the Language of Rules vs. Creativity (Video Games with People Who Don't Like Playing Video Games Part 3)
Join JD and Lisa P. for Episode 08 as we unpack the question of rules. When are rules in games fun? When are they a real snore-fest? What's the value of rules vs. creativity in play and language-learning? Lisa P. is a full-time public school teacher for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing finishing up…
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Ep. 07: The Pleasures of Back-Seat Gaming (Video Games with People Who Don't Like Playing Video Games Part 2)
JD brings it home this week... by literally interviewing the other person who lives in her home, Nora Green. Nora, JD's roommate, is an avid video game spectator. Rather than playing games, Nora prefers to spend countless hours WATCHING people play games. She spectates in a number of ways: by...
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Ep. 06: Crying in a Closet (Video Games with People Who Don't Like Playing Video Games Part 1)
This week JD goes solo, interviewing Bailey Morrison as part of a new series of interviews about video games with people who don't like playing video games. Inspired by Brie Code and a panel from SXSW (titled "Video Games for People Who Don't Like Video Games"), JD delves deep into the reasons...
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Ep. 05: Imagining Religion, Play, and Education with Dr. Gregory Grieve
Dr. Gregory Grieve visits with JD and Kyle this week to discuss the intersections of religion, play, and education (as well as the recent publication of his new book on Buddhism and Second Life). Grieve is a Professor and Head of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North...
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Ep. 04: Bestor on Decks
This week Kyle and JD are joined by Nick Bestor, a PhD candidate studying card games and licensing in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, for a rollicking journey through card games. Bestor talks about the journey that led him to studying card games...
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Ep. 03: Gaming Alone
Welcome to the end of JD's childhood! Just kidding. But also this episode really is about childhood. In this episode you'll hear a lot about what growing up with games was like for JD and Kyle. JD and Kyle can trace their different styles of gaming back to when they were wee gamers, with JD…
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Ep. 02: South by South Cast (SXSW Gaming 2017 Retrospective)
See SXSW Gaming like you've never seen it before... through audio. Tag along with JD and Kyle as they frolic through the retelling of JD's FIRST EVER and Kyle's DEFINITELY NOT FIRST EVER SXSW experience. Highlights include talking about video games for people who don't like video games, trying to...
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Ep. 01: Jews--A Fandom for Moses?
Jayme Dale and Kyle ANSWER THE BIG QUESTIONS in Episode 01 of Gaming Broad(cast). Is JD actually a fan of anything? Are Jews (and other religions) kind of like high-stakes fandoms? Why is it so tempting to be jerks about other groups you're not a part of? Why did Kyle eat a dog cookie? Stuff we...
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Ep. 00: A Gaming Intervention from Hell
A beta episode of Gaming Broad(cast) (of GamingBroadly.com) in which Jayme Dale and Kyle test their sound setup, compare Diablo 3 to Sailor Moon Drops and Tetris, realize they can beat a game seven times and STILL have no idea what's going on, and decide they don't want to play a game they kinda...
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A broad who games talking about gaming (broadly speaking). Gaming Broad(cast) is a (mostly) series-based internet radio show that explores all the places play exists. Official podcast of GamingBroadly.com.
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