May 31, 2020

Emma and Gil welcome Dr. Mary Flanagan, designer of Monarch,

Visitor in Blackwood Grove, Buffalo,
Awkward
Moment, and plethora of different video games in a myriad of types and
platforms, from get together to technique on digital in tabletop. Dr.
Flanagan can be an artist, having exhibited works (many
game-related) all all over the world, and teaches recreation design at
Dartmouth, who additionally hosts her recreation design and analysis lab,
Tiltfactor.

We focus on designing video games from the views of
enjoyable and significant change. How does one make a
transformative recreation that gamers really take pleasure in, however that’s nonetheless
efficient at constructing empathy and preventing prejudice?

CONTENT WARNING: There is a quick point out of racial prejudice,
and sexual assault in literary works in direction of the top of the
episode.

SHOW NOTES

0m21s: “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo
buffalo” is a grammatically right sentence. This video
explains it, and different lexically ambiguous sentences.

1m21s: Tiltfactor, Dr.
Flanagan’s recreation design and analysis lab at Dartmouth 

1m57s: If you are studying this, congratulations, you are studying
the present notes!

3m58s: Professor Scott Rogers lined The Game of The Goose in

Biography of a Board Game 221.5.

4m27s: For extra data on these French Revolution-themed
variations of Game of the Goose (Jeu de la Revolution Francaise),
take a look at
web page 17 of this PDF. It’s additionally attention-grabbing to notice that
Robespierre tried to put in a brand new state faith for France
in the course of the Revolution, the Cult
of the Supreme Being (Culte de l’Être suprême); it is completely
doable that its dogma was strengthened via issues like board
video games. Perhaps it additionally helped with the weird decimal-time-based
calendar that Robespierre could not get to stay, however that also
frustrates historians to at the present time.

5m30s: More details about Dr. Flanagan’s guide, Critical
Play.

6m39s: The
Landlord’s Game by Lizzie Magie is
the sport that Monopoly was primarily based on.

7m51s: September
12: A Toy World is a recreation the place a participant is making an attempt to kill
terrorists by firing missiles at a village. But each terrorist you
kill creates extra terrorists, because the locals get angrier at your
actions. Soon, the village is gone and you might be surrounded by
terrorists. There isn’t any solution to win the sport via taking pictures.

7m56s: Paolo Pedercini
additionally makes commentary video games. (Note that this hyperlink accommodates grownup
content material.) Jump to the McDonald’s Videogame right here. 

8m13s: More information on Profit Seed.

8m33s: More information on Layoff.

9m40s: More information on Pox: Save the
Puppies.

10m32s: “Designing
Games to Foster Empathy,” the paper Dr. Flanagan wrote with
Jonathan Belman.

15m04s: More information about psychological
distance.

16m16s: Gil is referring to
Ludology 213.5 – The Incan Gold Experiment, run by Dr. Stephen
Blessing and analysis assistant Elena Sakosky. (Gil refers back to the
recreation from the unique European launch’s identify, Diamant,
nevertheless it was launched in English as Incan Gold.)

19m51s: For an extended dialogue on what “enjoyable” means in a recreation,
and on a deeper stage, how video games create that means, take a look at
Ludology 201 – Are We Having Fun Yet?

21m20s: More information on the get together recreation Buffalo.

24m14s: More information on social
id complexity

26m13s: More information on the get together recreation Awkward
Moment.

31m10s: For extra dialogue on board video games and colonialism,
take a look at
Ludology Episode 197 – Empires Up in Arms. For extra data
in regards to the results of “terra nullius” in board video games, take a look at

this text from Nancy Foasberg.

32m26s: “Failed
Games: Lessons Learned from Promising however Problematic Game
Prototypes in Designing for Diversity,” by Dr. Flanagan, Max
Seidman, and Geoff Kaufman.

34m15s: Dr. Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard University,
has
urged that organic variations may clarify why there
had been fewer ladies in science. 

36m18s: More information about Blokus.

39m39s: More information on the technique recreation Monarch.

40m04s: Dr. Flanagan’s guide (with co-author Helen Nissenbaum)
Values
at Play.

40m18s: Here are some articles on Will
Wright and
Chris Trottier.

45m12s: More information on This
War of Mine: The Board Game and
Freedom: The Underground Railroad.

49m05s: More information on Dr. Flanagan’s artwork,
together with giantJoystick.

50m40s: Gabriel Orozco’s Horses Running
Endlessly.

51m48s: Dr. Flanagan’s
paper, with Sukdith Punjasthitkul and Geoff Kaufman, on “Social
Loafing.”

54m53s: The article in query is “The
Mechanical Muse,” printed in The New Yorker on January 7,
2020.

56m28s:
Here’s an article in Wired on the paper in query, wherein
massive collections of images used to coach image-recognition
software program – together with one utilized by Google and Microsoft – had been discovered
to amplify exisiting biases. 

57m15s: In 2015,
Google apologized for his or her facial recognition software program
mislabeling Black individuals as “gorillas.” 

57m42s: More information about Reload: Rethinking Women
and Cyberculture.

58m49s: The story right here is “No
Woman Born,” by C.L. Moore.

1h03m31s: The present can be known as “Gameplay:
Video Game Culture,” on the CCCB in Barcelona, Spain. 

1h04m07s: “Max” is Max Seidman, recreation designer at Resonym and
frequent collaborator with Dr. Flanagan.

1h05m41s: We’ve lined the light-weight interactive fiction
platform Twine earlier than on the
present, most notably on Ludology 217 –
What IF?