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Scholars At Play
by Scholars At Play
Scholars At Play is a podcast dedicated to the critical discussion of video games and their place in society and the academy.
Episodes
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2PT - 004 - All Scrims and Set-Pieces (Kentucky Route Zero)
A feed drop from Derek' new pod, 2 Player Theory. Check it out below: https://twoplayertheory.podbean.com/
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2PT - 002 - Isabelle Is a Bell (Animal Crossing: New Horizons)
Subscribe to Two Player Theory! https://twoplayertheory.podbean.com/
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Two Player Theory - 001 - Whose Tears? Whose Kingdom? (Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom)
Feed Drop!! In this new podcast, Derek, Zach, and friends talk through games and media, together. Subscribe to Two Player Theory Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-n3ieq-11a3b2e Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0e6LX1a3MmR7nJkza5Pi49?si=1e7648dd3ca74a92 In this first episode, we…
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Episode 17 - Simulator Games
Derek and Kyle sit down to talk about Derek's recently-completed dissertation "The Work of Nonfiction: Simulator Games in Germany." Derek talks about the history of simulator games, the specific simulators he studies, and what we can learn from games all about machines and work. Timestamps 0:00 -...
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Feed Drop: Dodging Hollow - Ep 1
Subscribe to Dodging Hollow on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dodging-hollow Edited intro music is "Day Bird" by Broke for Free, Creative Commons by attribution. Check out their music here: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Directionless_EP
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WIYS 15 May 2020 - Animal Crossing, Final Fantasy, and Print n' Plays
The scholars may be physically distant, but that won't stop them from talking about all their quarantine gaming! Join us for an EXTRA long "What's In You System" where we talk about how our gaming has changed during the ongoing pandemic. ----------- Games Discussed: Final Fantasy Tactics, Final...
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Episode 16 - Bloodborne and the Politics of Failure
-------------- Terrell leads Kyle and Derek on an exploration of the politics of failure and FromSoftware's Bloodborne (2015). They reflect on their own experiences with this challenging game and discuss how the game intersects with narratives of success and failure from different perspectives.…
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Episode 15 - Teaching History with Games (Live at "Learning at Play")
-------------- Derek, Kyle, Curtis, and Sabeen have a conversation about the opportunities and challenges in using digital games to teach history. This episode was recorded live at "Learning at Play," a 1-day symposium on games for learning and social change which took place at Vanderbilt on 8...
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Episode 14 - Metagaming
Episode 14 - Metagaming -------------- Derek, Kyle, and Terrell finally get it together and have a long, winding conversation about Dr. Stephanie Boluk and Dr. Patrick LeMieux's book "Metagaming" and the kinds of games we like to play with games. -------------- Objects Discussed Texts: -...
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Episode 13 - A MAZE 2019 with Pascal Wagner
In a special episode, Derek sits down with Pascal Wagner (Language At Play, Polyneux, GAIN Magazin) to talk about their experiences at A MAZE 2019, an independent festival for games that happens every year in Berlin. They talk about the great games and talks they saw, as well as some games they…
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WIYS - 17 Dec 2018 - Heat Signature, Castlevania, and Warhammer
The Scholars are back! After traveling through time and space, Derek has finally reunited with his stateside counterparts, Kyle and Terrell, to catch up and see "What's In Your System?" We talk about what we've been playing over the last few months, especially Heat Signature, Castlevania (the…
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Episode 12 - Predators and Jokers - Persona 5
Content Warning: discussions of sexual abuse and assault -------------- Sabeen Ahmed returns to join us for an important discussion about the way Persona 5 handles sexual assault, abuse, and power, and how it feels to play Persona 5 in the middle of the #MeToo movement in the U.S. --------------...
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Episode 11 - "(Making a) Difference in Gaming" with Dante Douglas, Dr. Adrienne Shaw, and Bill Harms
This special episode is a recording of a digital colloquium that took place on April 16th, 2018. Sponsored by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities and the Center for Digital Humanities at Vanderbilt University, and organized by the RPW Seminar "Taking Play Seriously," this panel...
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Episode 10 - The Fate of the World - The Anthropocene and Ecocriticism
Ted Dawson joins Derek, Kyle and Terrell to talk about what "The Anthropocene" and "ecocriticism" are, why they matter, and what we need to do to save the world. Well, at least in "The Fate of the World." -------------- Objects Discussed Texts: - "The Climate of History: Four Theses" (Dipesh...
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Episode 9b - Revisiting the Past - The Paradox of History
-------------- -Tired: Scholars at Play- -Wired: HISTORIANS AT PLAY- -In this episode, Kyle takes over and forces Derek and Terrell to talk about history and strategy games again. Joined by special guest Henry Gorman, History PhD candidate and lover of Paradox games, the four talk through what it...
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Episode 9a - Revisiting the Past - The Paradox of History
-------------- -Tired: Scholars at Play- -Wired: HISTORIANS AT PLAY- -In this episode, Kyle takes over and forces Derek and Terrell to talk about history and strategy games again. Joined by special guest Henry Gorman, History PhD candidate and lover of Paradox games, the four talk through what it...
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WIYS - 1 Feb 2018 - Dream Daddy, Stardew Valley, and Getting Over It
In this episode of What's In Your System?, Derek, Kyle, and Terrell talk about the new (and old) games they've been playing in the new year.
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Games of the Year 2017 - Part 2
In the second half of our game of the year podcast series, Kyle, Derek, and Terrell talk about their Greatest Escape, the most "2017" game, SAP's Game of the Year, games we would recommend to each other, and the best games we didn't play. Also, if you're curious about our personal Top 5 lists,...
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Games of the Year 2017 - Part 1
In Part 1 of our Games of the Year podcast series, we talk about the games we thought had the Biggest Impact, our favorite moments in games, and we play another of Qyle's Qrazy Quizzes!
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Mailbag! - November 2017
In this episode, we answer some questions from listeners! We talk about powerlessness in horror games, loot boxes, the lack of variety in big-budget games, and much more! Plus, Kyle quizzes us on our knowledge of Metacritic's ranking algorithm... err, I mean, the Games of the Year from 2014…
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Episode 8 - Until Dawn - Chaos or Cinema?
In this episode, Derek, Terrell, and Kyle talk about Supermassive Game's 2015 horror hit "Until Dawn" and work through its relationship with the tropes and language of cinematic horror, as well as the game's "Butterfly Effect" system. Note: this episode DEFINITELY contains spoilers. You have been...
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Episode 7 - Games, Resistance, and Procedural Rhetoric
In this extra-long, bonus, feature-length episode, special guest Sabeen Ahmed joins us for a discussion about how games intersect with contemporary political activism. We work through some of the regressive tendencies in modern gaming cultures, take up Bogost's idea of procedural rhetoric, and…
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WIYS - 18 Aug 2017 - Horizon Zero Dawn, Breath of the Wild, and PUBG
---What's In Your System? (WIYS) - Friday, August 18th, 2017--- It's Friday and we're chilling not 10 feet away from Kyle's glorious stairs and sharing our thoughts about loot-crate logic in PUBG and the differences/similarities between Breath of the Wild and Horizon Zero Dawn. We also debate the...
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Episode 6 - A Breath of Wild Nostalgia - Zelda and Postcriticism
-------------- Objects Discussed Text: Introduction to “The Limits of Critique” (Rita Felski, 2015) Game: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 2017) Video(s): “Breath of the Wild: The Best Game Ever” (YT: Cool Ghosts, 2017) https://youtu.be/ZLRedgWqejo “Stuff That Bugs Me About the...
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WIYS - 4 Aug 2017 - PUBG, Pokemon, and MechWarrior
Enjoy this first (of hopefully many) standalone "What's In Your System?" We'll be releasing more of these shorter, more informal podcasts in the future, but DON'T WORRY we're still doing the longer thematic and academic/critical ones too. In this episode of WIYS we talk about our summers, One…
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Episode 5 - Unraveling Twine Games
-------------- Sections: What is Twine?/Kopas Introduction - 5:45 SABBAT - 32:50 Eden - 40:39 Even Cowgirls Bleed - 46:09 Bogost's piece - 53:50 What's in Your System? - 1:09:20 -------------- Objects Discussed Texts: Introduction to “Videogames for Humans” (Merritt Kopas, 2015), “Video Games are...
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Episode 4 - From Big Brother to Tiny Brothers - Games and Surveillance
Many thanks to our special guests Curtis Maughan and Pablo Abend! -------------- Sections (time = start of section): Guest Introductions - 1:57 Paper Summaries - 5:20 General Discussion - 17:42 Topic: Aesthetics, Surveillance, and Games - 56:13 What's in Your System? - 1:13:34 --------------...
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Episode 3 - Sid Meier's Civilization and its Discontents
Sections (time = start of section): Intro - 0:00 Civ 5 - 2:46 Schut Article - 20:45 Galloway Chapter - 39:42 What's in Your System? - 1:01:46 -------------- Objects Discussed Game: Sid Meier's Civilization 5 (2010) Articles: "Strategic Simulations and Our Past: The Bias of Computer Games in the...
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Episode 2 - Borders and Ritual in Papers, Please
Objects Discussed Game: Papers, Please (Lucas Pope, 2013) Review: Videogame Utopia: Passage Denied, a “Papers Please” review (Rui Craveirinha, 2014) Article: Ritualization of Regulation: The Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion in the United States and China (Adam McKeown) -------------- Hosts…
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Episode 1 - Narrative and Gameplay
Objects Discussed Text: Ludonarrative Dissonance - (Clint Hocking) Game: Bioshock Video: "The Debate That Never Took Place" (Youtube: Errant Signal) -------------- Hosts: Derek Price - Twitter: (at)Digital_Derek Terrell Taylor - Twitter: (at)BlackSocrates Kyle Romero - Twitter…
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