2 – Chess – Ready Player Two

This is the second episode of Game Studies Study Buddies, a podcast where your two co-hosts read through works of academic game studies and talk about it. If you’re interested in that, you might like this show!

This episode is about Shira Chess’s Ready Player Two, a book that argues for the concept of the “designed identity” of the target audience of casual games. We have a great time talking about the book, designed identity as a method, and actor-network theory. The book has some great insights, and we really dig into how it works.

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Episode 50 – Planescape: Torment – 7

In the big five-oh episode, we go to the city of betrayers to learn a little bit about prison. Danni skips some quests, and CMRN misses something very obvious.

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Planescape: Torment is a computer role-playing game (CRPG) from the late 1990s that is heralded as one of the greatest RPG games ever made.

Our biweekly show is a chill, fun time where we talk about alignment, Dungeons and Dragons, and a general plethora of stuff we care about in the Forgotten Realms. It’s a Gygaxian affair of the highest sort, and we are experiencing our best lives as adventurers in this fantasy world.