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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 12/3/25 | ![]() 2PT - 004 - All Scrims and Set-Pieces (Kentucky Route Zero)✨ | podcastgaming+3 | — | 2 Player TheoryKentucky Route Zero | — | podcastKentucky Route Zero+3 | — | 1h 43m 54s | |
| 7/9/25 | ![]() 2PT - 002 - Isabelle Is a Bell (Animal Crossing: New Horizons) | Subscribe to Two Player Theory! https://twoplayertheory.podbean.com/ | — | ||||||
| 4/18/24 | ![]() 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 talk about Zelda's newest open-world game, Tears of the Kingdom, and what it's themes and narrative mean for us, right now. | — | ||||||
| 6/28/21 | ![]() 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 - Intro 4:11 - Theory, text, and context in research 8:30 - Origins of the project and how it developed, brief history of simulator games 20:12 - Theories and methods of the project 37:33 - Examples of popular simulator games from the mid-2000s 45:05 - How do these "newer" simulator games break from or continue in the tradition of older simulator games? 58:11 - How do simulator games respond to contemporary transformations of work in the 21st century, and why did the simulator game genre become popular in German-speaking contexts? 1:17:50 - The limits of critique/suspicion in research, and a brief discussion about how gender and class under-gird simulator game realism. | — | ||||||
| 10/22/20 | 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 | — | ||||||
| 6/8/20 | ![]() 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 Fantasy VII Remake, Animal Crossing, Link Between Worlds, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Deep Space D6 ----------- Hosts: Derek Price: twitter.com/digital_derek Terrell Taylor: twitter.com/BlackSocrates Kyle Romero: twitter.com/E_Kyle_Romero ----------- Contact: email: scholarsatplaypodcast@gmail.com twitter: twitter.com/ScholarsAtPlay ----------- Music: "We Can Do It" by Visager (twitter.com/visagermusic) | — | ||||||
| 5/27/19 | ![]() 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: - "Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames (Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux, 2017) (Meta)Games: - Heat Signature, Hitman (2016), Divinity Original Sin 2, FTL: Faster Than Light, The Pokemon Trading Card Game, -------------- Hosts Derek Price - twitter.com/digital_derek Terrell Taylor - twitter.com/BlackSocrates Kyle Romero - twitter.com/E_Kyle_Romero -------------- Contact us! E-mail: scholarsatplaypodcast@gmail.com Twitter: twitter.com/ScholarsAtPlay scholarsatplay.net -------------- Special thanks: Visager (twitter.com/visagermusic) for the use of their song "We Can Do It" and our Distinguished Colleague Patreon supporters, including: Carol R. -------------- Support us on Patreon! patreon.com/scholarsatplay | — | ||||||
| 4/27/19 | ![]() 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 had some more critical reactions to. See below for a more detailed list of what they talked about, and when. ----------- Timestamps 4:50 - A MAZE in general 11:20 - "The Game: The Game" (https://angelawashko.com/home.html) 25:18 - "Fantastic Fetus" (https://cyangmou.itch.io/fantastic-fetus) and other AMAZE talks 42:57 - Death Trash (http://deathtrash.com/) 44:10 - The Fermi Paradox (http://fermi-paradox.com/press/sheet.php?p=fermi%20paradox) 51:52 - Curious Expedition (https://curious-expedition.com/) ----------- Recommended Texts -Dom Ford ““eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate”: Affective Writing of Postcolonial History and Education in Civilization V” (http://gamestudies.org/1602/articles/ford) -Johan Höglund - Electronic Empire: Orientalism Revisited in the Military Shooter (http://gamestudies.org/0801/articles/hoeglund) -Soraya Murray: “The Work of Postcolonial Game Studies in the Play of Culture” (https://olh.openlibhums.org/articles/10.16995/olh.285/) -Souvik Mukherjee - “Playing Subaltern: Video Games and Postcolonialism” (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1555412015627258) -Pascal Wagner - "Civilization, colonialism, and the misunderstanding of history" (https://languageatplay.de/2017/07/31/civilization-colonialism-and-the-misunderstanding-of-history/) ----------- Hosts: Derek Price: https://twitter.com/digital_derek Pascal Wagner: https://twitter.com/indieflock ----------- Contact: email: scholarsatplaypodcast@gmail.com twitter: twitter.com/ScholarsAtPlay ----------- Music: "We Can Do It" by Visager (twitter.com/visagermusic) | — | ||||||
| 1/11/19 | ![]() 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 games and the show), the diverging narratives of Warhammer, the (divisive) idea of proxies in Warhammer and Magic: The Gathering, and The Power 9. ----------- Hosts: Derek Price: twitter.com/digital_derek Terrell Taylor: twitter.com/BlackSocrates Kyle Romero: twitter.com/E_Kyle_Romero ----------- Contact: email: scholarsatplaypodcast@gmail.com twitter: twitter.com/ScholarsAtPlay ----------- Music: "We Can Do It" by Visager (twitter.com/visagermusic) | — | ||||||
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