Season 9, Episode 2: Bazinga
Jul 14, 202557mEp. 430
Cardboard Ghosts: Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems, Amabel Holland, 2025 CRC Press. ttbk dot mailbag at gmail dot com
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Hosted by tryingtobekind · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 43 episodes
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Mahar, Fiona, and Jared do their best to say insightful things about one book or another in the tabletop RPG space.
tryingtobekind hosts Trying To Be Kind, a arts show with 43 episodes published.
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,
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.
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