Welcome!
Welcome to Ludology, an analytical dialogue of the hows and whys of the world of board video games. Reasonably than information and evaluations, Ludology explores a wide range of subjects about video games from a wider lens, in addition to talk about recreation historical past, recreation design and recreation gamers.
We put up a brand new Ludology episode each different week. In these episodes, hosts Erica Bouyouris and Sen-Foong Lim deep-dive right into a single matter inside recreation design, usually with a well-regarded visitor from the sport business. We usually give attention to tabletop recreation design (primarily board video games and RPGs), however we frequently pull in consultants from all types of video games, from video video games to flee rooms to fit machines.
On weeks the place there isn’t any flagship Ludology episode, we’ll alternate between two smaller mini-sodes. Erica and Sen are completely satisfied to announce that Sarah Shipp of Shippboard Video games and Stephanie Campbell of TTRPGKids can be becoming a member of us for the following 12 months, offering further content material between our longer episodes.
Sarah’s phase, Considering Past Mechanisms, is a month-to-month function that dives deeper into the opposite features of video games past the cube and playing cards we’re all acquainted with.
Stephanie’s phase, TTRPGKids, explores how dad and mom and academics can use position enjoying video games with youngsters within the dwelling and within the classroom.
We hope you benefit from the further content material!
Our Historical past
We purpose for many Ludology episodes to be timeless, so you might be welcome to discover our total catalog. Most of it ought to age fairly properly. The podcast was began in 2011 by Geoff Engelstein and Ryan Sturm, with Mike Fitzgerald taking up for Ryan in 2015. Gil and Scott joined the present in 2017 when Mike stepped apart, and Emma joined in 2019 when Geoff ended his tenure as host. Emma left in 2021, and Erica and Sen joined us. Since then, Scott stepped down in 2022 and Gil can be hanging up his mic in 2023, leaving Erica and Sen to hold on this superb legacy.
Erica and Sen are working to deliver new voices to Ludology and have some nice issues to announce as gaming expands to incorporate much more folks!
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We at the moment have 3 “First Pay attention” collection that can exit to Patrons properly upfront of the audio being launched to the broader viewers.
- The Recollections that Made Us (month-to-month) – reminiscences about gaming experiences that helped form the folks that deliver trendy video games to life
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