Trying To Be Kind

Cardboard Ghosts: Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems, Amabel Holland, 2025 CRC Press. ttbk dot mailbag at gmail dot com

Cardboard Ghosts: Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems, Amabel Holland, 2025 CRC Press. ttbk dot mailbag at gmail dot com

Cardboard Ghosts: Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems, Amabel Holland, 2025 CRC Press. ttbk.mailbag at gmail dot com

The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy, Bernard De Koven. MIT Press, 2013.

The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy, Bernard De Koven. MIT Press, 2013.

The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy, Bernard De Koven. MIT Press, 2013.

"King Me": A Defense of King-Making in Board Game Design, Cole Wehrle, GDC, 2019.  

"King Me": A Defense of King-Making in Board Game Design, Cole Wehrle, GDC, 2019.  

As usual, a buffer episode to lead into the new season. In which we discuss some texts we might tackle, baseball stadiums, shame rooms, and social media.

With special guest, Sam Sorensen, author of Seas of Sand and Time After Time. Critical Play: Radical Game Design, Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 2009.

There's some intermittent noise in the first few minutes of this episode, my apologies, but it clears up after a bit. Thanks for bearing with us in this difficult time. Critical Play: Radical Game Design, Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 2009.

Critical Play: Radical Game Design, Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 2009. Raph Koster's Star Wars Galaxies Post-Mortem.

Critical Play: Radical Game Design, Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 2009.   The audio is a little sketchy this episode, that's my bad. I'm aware, and I'm working on it for next time. Sorry! - Jared

A buffer episode before we start the next season. Just three friends chatting about nothing, don't expect any big ideas. (And the audio is a little sketchy, forgive me.)

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009. With special guest, Emma Yasui.

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009. With special guest, Emma Yasui.

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009. With special guest, Emma Yasui.

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009. With special guest, Emma Yasui.

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009. With special guest, Emma Yasui.

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009. With special guest, Emma Yasui.

Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015.

This recording is a little noisier than normal at parts. Apologies! Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015. With special guest Joe DeSimone.

A casual, breezy episode, in which we don't talk about the book at all. Instead, we ask each other questions of various cruelty and reflect on the last two years of this silly podcast. Thanks for listening! We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming next month.

Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015. With special guest Joe DeSimone.

Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015. With special guest Joe DeSimone.

Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015. With special guest Joe DeSimone.

Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015. With special guest Joe DeSimone.

In which we continue to discuss that time Critical Role played Monsterhearts. With special guest Vi Huntsman of Collabs Without Permission. Music by Kelley Mangahas and Chris Zabriskie.

In which we begin to discuss that time Critical Role played Monsterhearts. With special guest Vi Huntsman of Collabs Without Permission. Music by Kelley Mangahas.

The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity, Jon Peterson. Music by Kelley Mangahas.

Don't worry, this episode is content free. Just taking a breather to shoot the shoot. Happy holidays!   Music by Kelley Mangahas.

The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity, Jon Peterson. Music by Joshua Cerdenia and Kelley Mangahas.

The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity, Jon Peterson.   Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity, Jon Peterson.   Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Urbano A. Zafra (public domain).

CW: Discussion of insensitive remarks made by others regarding mental health, neurotype, and disability. --- Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.  Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Urbano A. Zafra (public domain).

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.    Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Urbano A. Zafra (public domain).

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.  Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Urbano A. Zafra (public domain).

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.  https://www.across-rpgsea.com/ https://momatoes.itch.io/the-magus https://dropbear-games.itch.io/fragments https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RPGLATAM&src=typed_query https://metalsnail.itch.io/colouring-book-dungeons https://dastardlydave.itch.io/eat-trash-be-free https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Ming Monkeys Spinning Monkeys by Kevin MacLeod Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4071-monkeys-spinning-monkeys License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

Discussing Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.  Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Bossa Antigua by Kevin MacLeod Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3454-bossa-antigua License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.  Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Bossa Antigua by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3454-bossa-antigua License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.  Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Bossa Antigua by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3454-bossa-antigua License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.  Monkeys Spinning Monkeys by Kevin MacLeod Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4071-monkeys-spinning-monkeys License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.  Monkeys Spinning Monkeys by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4071-monkeys-spinning-monkeys License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/