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The Ludonist

by The Ludonist

A single-topic podcast about a life lived through games, featuring Nick Cummings and Aaron Thayer from Silicon Sasquatch

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Episodes

  1. Episode 9: Episode 9: Dr. Dragonborn or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thu’um

    Dr. Dragonborn or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thu'um The Ludonist Download Making open worlds fun isn't easy. It took one of us nearly four years to appreciate Skyrim's sense of wanderlust. Intro/outro music: “Sunrise” by WJLP. Used under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 3.0 license.

  2. Episode 8: The Ghosts of E3

    The Ghosts of E3 The Ludonist Download Nick and Aaron riff on the highs and lows of E3 2015. Intro/outro music: “Sunrise” by WJLP. Used under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 3.0 license.

  3. Episode 7: Ice-T Presents: Fallout, 4

    Fallout, 4 - Presented by Ice-T The Ludonist Download E3 still isn’t officially underway for another day or so, but Bethesda sure wasn’t gonna wait around for other companies to break their news. The developer and publisher took to the stage last night to promote its upcoming games, including...

  4. Episode 6: Gamer Knows Best

    Gamer Knows Best The Ludonist Download Video game fans are a notoriously opinionated bunch. Picture the acerbic, humorless affect of The Simpsons' Comic Book Guy and toss in a lot of strong opinions about player progression systems and you've got the makings of a gaming Subreddit. Aaron and I…

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  5. Episode 5: Then and Now

    The Retro Games Store The Ludonist Download In this episode we explore the concept of taste: Do we still choose the same games that we've always loved, or has the industry influenced what we play? Intro/outro music: “Sunrise” by WJLP. Used under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 3.0 license.

  6. Episode 4: Franchise Opportunities Available

    Franchise Opportunities Available The Ludonist Download “What is dead may never die.” So say the followers of the Drowned God, and frequently repeated by House Greyjoy of Game of Thrones fame. And, for the purposes of this episode, an apt phrase for the sudden resurgence of formerly powerful...

  7. Episode 3: Mod Money

    Mod Money The Ludonist Download Here at The Ludonist, we do our best to bring you a fresh, topical episode every week. We think we’ve got a pretty good system down that accounts for unexpected changes to a story, but there’s always the risk that a topic will become irrelevant within 24 hours of a...

  8. Episode 2: Start Your Engines

    Start Your Engines The Ludonist Download It’s been a couple months since the 2015 Game Developers Conference took place in San Francisco, and we’re just beginning to feel the repercussions of some major changes in game-development tech that were announced at the show. With engines simultaneously...

  9. Episode 1: Hello World

    Ep. 1 - Hello World The Ludonist Download In our first episode, we set out to do the impossible: define what the games industry looks like in 2015. As it turns out, things aren’t as simple as they used to be. For example: What does “triple-A” game development mean? What constitutes an “indie…

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A single-topic podcast about a life lived through games, featuring Nick Cummings and Aaron Thayer from Silicon Sasquatch

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The Ludonist

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