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grokludo is about understanding games. It's a snappy way to hear the latest research on game design, cognitive psychology, business in gaming, and policy & regulation. We'll speak to everyone at the intersection of all those fields -- developers, academics, policymakers, and community enthusiasts -- anyone with a story or an idea that can deepen our understanding of play.
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Signup to Generate a Pitchgrokludo is about understanding games. It's a snappy way to hear the latest research on game design, cognitive psychology, business in gaming, and policy & regulation. We'll speak to everyone at the intersection of all those fields -- developers, academics, policymakers, and community enthusiasts -- anyone with a story or an idea that can deepen our understanding of play.
grokludo is hosted by Junglist. The show has published 30 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Most Misunderstood Term in Gaming - Benjamin Horn | grokludo 30" (8 September 2026, 48 minutes), "The Shanty Man: Crafting Songs for the Silicon Seas - Seán Dagher | grokludo 29" (18 August 2026, 53 minutes), and "Holding Court With Faeries, Fools, and Finite Jest - AP Thomson | grokludo 28" (4 August 2026, 45 minutes).
grokludo publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 57 minutes across 30 episodes.
Booking probability for grokludo is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. grokludo requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. grokludo's contact route on record: public web form.
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Junglist hosts grokludo, a leisure podcast with 30 episodes published.
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Episode #30
Show me five gamers, and I'll show you five different definitions of the word "mechanic." Benjamin Horn from the University of Hong Kong released a paper with four other academics, investigating the usefulness of a term...
Episode #29
Seán Dagher is one of the main singers of sea shanties in games like Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, the indie hit Windrose, and more -- and is partly responsible for the wider modern resurgence in sea shanties. After...
Episode #28
Titanium Court is an intentionally bizarre, unique, and hard to describe game. It's best to go in not knowing anything -- but AP Thomson is here to talk about some of its themes, philosophy, and behind-the-scenes...
Episode #27
Over 20 years ago, CCP Games released EVE Online, a massively multiplayer space game, promising huge fleet battles, and an open, player-controlled economy. But within months, that economy was headed for disaster. This...
Episode #26
What do we talk about when we talk about 4X? We think about abstract systems, resource management, efficiency, growth... But what about all the invisible things that go along with eXploitation, and eXtermination? Mary...
Episode #25
Ross Scott is the face of the Stop Killing Games movement, which seeks to ensure games don't completely die when a developer or publisher ends support, but rather, there's an end of life plan in place that makes it...
Episode #24
There's no doubt that the modern world is very different to the one we evolved to thrive in. But that mismatch might be more pronounced for the neurodivergent mind. Dr Clinton White has an upcoming book, Fast Mind, Slow...
Episode #23
Nikita Mikros is an indie developer that decided to focus on arcade games. And I don't mean arcade-style games on PC and console -- I mean physical arcade cabinets. His most famous game is undoubtedly Killer Queen, a...
Episode #22
Jon Peterson is the author of Playing at the World, a deep dive into tabletop gaming leading up to Dungeons & Dragons, which just released its 2nd edition. Jon is a fantastic source of knowledge on all things tabletop...
Episode #21
Nick Ballou researches gaming habits and their effects on quality of life. He recently released a study with an unprecedented amount of data collected about gamers' play habits, and in addition to showing us his...
Why do we play? Not only play -- why do we play more than any other animal, and for longer? Well into adulthood? Raph Koster, who's been on the podcast before, brought out A Theory of Fun in 2006, which aimed to put an...
**Content Warning** This episode contains discussion of depression and suicidal ideation. For those with autism, gaming can be a great boon. Where others see social barriers, the autistic mind sees the removal of those...
Jose Zagal is a professor at the University of Utah, teaching game design, and ethics in videogames. In 2005 he put forward the Game Ontology Project, which attempts to break down games to its core elements, categorise...
Episode #17
Gaming has an end-of-life problem. While we've made some progress in preserving games as cultural artifacts, new questions have arisen about when it's okay for publishers to end support for their games, and what that...
Episode #16
Guy Blomberg and Shay Leighton have started a book club. It's called The Game Club, because it's not really about books, it's about games. But it's not really about games, it's about friends. With loneliness on the...
Tracy Fullerton is head of the renowned games lab at the University of Southern California, and is on the Board of Directors for Square Enix, and Games for Change. For years, her book Game Design Workshop has taught...
Episode #14
Wen You Ge, also known as Bearlike, leads the team working on Mechabellum, the premier 1v1 autobattler. These games give you NO control over the battle. It's all about setting up your troops beforehand, with smart...
Chris Simon is a technologist who's given talks about AI, specifically LLMs, or Large Language Models such as ChatGPT. AI is going to be an increasingly big topic in games. From things like art generation, code...
Minh Le, also known as Gooseman, is best known for creating the world-conquering Counter-Strike. It started out as a small Half-Life mod, and now sells out the largest stadiums around the world as one of the greatest...
Raph Koster has helped forward our understanding of game design for decades. He's the author of A Theory of Fun, a must-read for game designers. He was lead designer on the pioneering MMO Ultima Online, and led the...
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