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Emma and Gil reasonable a roundtable on security instruments in video games, with friends Kienna Shaw and Lauren Bryant-Monk (creators of the TTRPG Safety Toolkit) and John Stavropoulos (creator of the X-Card).
We focus on consent and security in video games, beginning with tabletop roleplaying video games (TTRPGs), however increasing to all types of video games. How can security instruments assist in video games, and in what methods do they assist?
Content Warning: this episode mentions occurences of consent violations, home abuse, and sexual assault.
SHOW NOTES
23m25s – The D&D Adventurers League is an official ongoing play, organized by D&D’s writer Wizards of the Coast.
32m29s – Kids on Bikes, by Jon Gilmour and Doug Levandowski.
33m17s – Avonelle Wing is a longtime RPG/LARP participant, conference organizer, and advocate for equality and justice for video games. She’s one in every of Gil’s idols.
34m11s – Kate Bullock is a TTRPG designer, advocate, author, and president of the Indie Game Developer Network.
39m58s – Nordic LARP is a type of LARP with minimal guidelines and GMing, however heavy ambiance and story. Compare it to demonstrative (boffer) LARPs, which are typically extra fantastical and have NPCs and fight guidelines.
43m20s – An otome recreation is a story-based online game that usually has the participant management a feminine character, to attempt to develop a relationship with one of many recreation’s male characters.
46m10s – Here’s an particularly horrifying story about an terrible GM that got here out of UKGE final 12 months (BIG CONTENT WARNING for sexual assault in that hyperlink). Note that that is one story, however there are a lot of extra that by no means get this a lot protection. The story about the general public reside stream that went incorrect is right here, and carries an identical content material warning.
52m07s – You did not suppose we have been going to go a full episode with out bringing board video games into it, did you? 🙂
1h00m26s – Self-Promotion: you’ll find extra information about Gil’s Check-In Cards right here.
1h00m57s – Twilight Imperium being a 6 hour recreation about galactic conquest.
1h06m58s – Psychologist Susan Silk and her buddy Barry Goldman wrote about this within the LA occasions. They referred to as it “Ring Theory,” and in it, they focus on how one can consolation a grieving particular person whereas not burdening them with your personal ache, by inserting them within the “middle” of the disaster and being conscious of the place you might be relative to others in that ring.
1h10m03s – Restorative justice is a strategy that has the sufferer and offender assembly (typically with neighborhood members), with the expectation that the 2 events will come to a consensus on what occurred, how a lot injury was prompted, and the way the injury might be repaired. This offers the offender a transparent path to righting the incorrect, and empowers the sufferer within the technique of searching for justice.
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