Episode 53 – Planescape: Torment – 10

In the fifty-third adventure, we talk about Planescape: Torment, what it meant to us, and where we are going from here.

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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.

3 – Murray – Hamlet On The Holodeck

This is the third 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 Janet Murray’s Hamlet On The Holodeck, a classic book in the game studies canon. It argues that procedural media fundamentally changes the stakes of how narrative functions. It was originally published in 1997, and so the question remains: what does it offer us now? We investigate.

Here is a link to a post with some information about some of the references we made in this episode.

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Game Studies Study Buddies – Hamlet On The Holodeck References

Below you will find a partial list of all of the works we discussed in the third episode of Game Studies Study Buddies, which is centered on Janet Murray’s Hamlet On The Holodeck.

We use referral links for the books so that we can buy more books and keep making new episodes!

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Aarseth, Espen. Cybertext.

Borges, Jorge Luis. “The Garden of Forking Paths.”

Bronte, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Castle Rock.

Cyan, Inc. Myst.

Derrida, Jacques. Archive Fever.

Eskelinen, Markku. “The Gaming Situation.”

Freud, Sigmund. Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

Frictional Games. Soma.

Friends At The Table

Fullbright Company. Gone Home.

Fullbright Company. Tacoma.

Galloway, Alexander. The Interface Effect.

Genette, Gerard. The Narrative Discourse: An Essay on Method.

Hussie, Andrew. Homestuck.

Iunius, Hadrianus. Incunable / baby clothes.

James, C.L.R. Beyond A Boundary.

Joyce, Michael. afternoon, a story.

Juul, Jesper. Half-Real.

K-dramas.

Left 4 Dead’s Director

Lutz, Michael. His postmodernist hypertexts…

McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media.

Manovich, Lev. Nothing specific, but maybe check out Software Takes Command.

MUDs aka Multi User Dungeons.

Propp, Vladimir.

Ranciere, Jacques. Aisthesis.

Salen, Katie and Eric Zimmerman. Rules of Play.

Shanahan, Ian. “Bow N—–”.

Short, Emily. Galatea.

Sicart, Miguel. The Ethics of Computer Games.

Spinoza, Baruch. Ethics.

Trion Worlds. Defiance.

Westworld writers watch the show and rewrite it based on Reddit comments.

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Episode 52 – Planescape: Torment – 9

In the fifty-second adventure, we finish Planescape: Torment.

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John Fio and Gina Moffit created the Season 5 theme.

@silverskinned created the cartoon versions of us.

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.

Episode 51 – Planescape: Torment – 8

In the fifty-first adventure, we go right to hell. We talk about console commands. We get betrayed.

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John Fio and Gina Moffit created the Season 5 theme.

@silverskinned created the cartoon versions of us.

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.