We talk about Mary Ann Buckles’ 1985 dissertation Interactive Fiction: The Computer Storygame “Adventure.” You can read the dissertation by clicking this link. Support this show and all of ourContinue reading37 – Buckles – Interactive Fiction

We talk about Lev Manovich’s The Language of New Media. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon, where you can also get our notes for this episodeContinue reading36 – Manovich – The Language of New Media

We talk about Christopher Patterson’s Open World Empire. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon, where you can also get our notes for this episode for $3Continue reading35 – Patterson – Open World Empire

We discuss Colin Milburn’s Mondo Nano. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon, where you can also get our notes for this episode for $3 a month!Continue reading34 – Milburn – Mondo Nano

We discuss the second edition of Brenda Laurel’s Computers as Theatre. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon, where you can also get our notes for thisContinue reading33 – Laurel – Computers As Theatre

We discuss Tara Fickle’s 2019 book The Race Card. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. SupportContinue reading32 – Fickle – The Race Card

We discuss Lisa Nakamura’s 2002 book Cybertypes. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this showContinue reading31 – Nakamura – Cybertypes

We discuss Timothy J. Welsh’s Mixed Realism. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this showContinue reading30 – Welsh – Mixed Realism

We discuss Kishonna Gray’s Intersectional Tech. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show andContinue reading29 – Gray – Intersectional Tech

We discuss McKenzie Wark’s Gamer Theory. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show andContinue reading28 – Wark – Gamer Theory

We discuss Jon Bailes’ Ideology and the Virtual City and learn a thing or two about psychoanalysis and Marxism. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow MichaelContinue reading27 – Bailes – Ideology and the Virtual City

We discuss Gordon Calleja’s In-Game and learn a little bit about immersion. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in ourContinue reading26 – Calleja – In-Game

We discuss Soraya Murray’s On Video Games. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this showContinue reading25 – Murray – On Video Games

We discuss Susan Laxton’s Surrealism at Play. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this showContinue reading24 – Laxton – Surrealism at Play

We discuss Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel.Continue reading23 – Csikszentmihalyi – Flow

We discuss Alenda Chang’s Playing Nature. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show andContinue reading22 – Chang – Playing Nature

We discuss Celia Pearce’s Communities of Play. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this showContinue reading21 – Pearce – Communities of Play

We watched The King of Kong to learn about the antics of Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter.Continue reading20 – The King of Kong

We read Carly Kocurek’s excellent Coin-Operated Americans to learn about arcades and masculinity. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out inContinue reading19 – Kocurek – Coin-Operated Americans

We delve deep into Henry Jenkins’ essay “Game Design as Narrative Architecture,” a classic in the game studies field. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow MichaelContinue reading18 – Jenkins – Game Design As Narrative Architecture

We delve deep into James S. Hans’ The Play of the World, a little-known text about the philosophy of play from 1981. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN onContinue reading17 – Hans – The Play of the World

We check out Espen Aarseth’s classic Cybertext. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this showContinue reading16 – Aarseth – Cybertext

We discuss Chris Paul’s Wordplay. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show and allContinue reading15 – Paul – Wordplay

We discuss C.L.R. James’s Beyond a Boundary. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this showContinue reading14 – James – Beyond A Boundary

We discuss Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show andContinue reading13 – Huizinga – Homo Ludens

We discuss Aubrey Anable’s Playing With Feelings. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this showContinue reading12 – Anable – Playing With Feelings

We discuss Alexander Galloway’s Gaming. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show and allContinue reading11 – Galloway – Gaming

We discuss some beach reads, and do a short episode on Amanda Phillips’ essay “Shooting to Kill: Headshots, Twitch, Reflexes, and the Mechropolitics of Video Games,” which was published inContinue reading10 – Phillips – Shooting To Kill

We discuss Games of Empire by Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter, a book that discusses games, capitalism, and new forms of labor that constitute a little something called Empire. There mightContinue reading9 – Dyer-Witheford and de Peuter – Games of Empire

We discuss Gina Bloom’s Gaming the Stage, a book about the relationship between games and theater in the early modern era. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow MichaelContinue reading8 – Bloom – Gaming The Stage

This is the seventh 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 interestedContinue reading7 – End of 2018 Wrapup

This is the sixth 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 interestedContinue reading6 – Gaunt – The Games Black Girls Play

This is the fifth 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 interestedContinue reading5 – Caillois – Man, Play and Games

This is the fourth 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 interestedContinue reading4 – Ensslin – Literary Gaming

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 interestedContinue reading3 – Murray – Hamlet On The Holodeck

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 interestedContinue reading2 – Chess – Ready Player Two

This is the first 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 interestedContinue reading1 – Juul – Half Real