Jun 28, 2020

Emma and Gil welcome Banana Chan: sport author, larp/RPG
designer, board sport writer, horror film buff, and pop-up
museum aficionado. We discuss writing for all types of video games,
how sport mechanisms assist intense experiences in larp and RPG,
the consequences of emancipatory bleed, and the impact of shifting
roleplay on-line.

Content warning: we focus on video games with intense themes, like
human sacrifice.

4m29s: The
Spire RPG 

5m59s: The
Circle is a actuality present by which contestants are remoted in
their properties and might solely talk with others by way of a text-based
app. They’re free to undertake any persona they want. You can watch the
first episode of the American reboot right here.

6m27s: Pork roll vs. Taylor ham (two names for a similar form of
processed meat)
is a long-running debate within the Garden State. 

7m01s: Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit, a legendary
play with a basic twist.

9m03s: The RPGs This
Discord Has Ghosts In It and
Long Time Listener, Last Time Caller 

10m06s: For these of you simply becoming a member of Ludology, welcome, and we
simply coated security instruments in Ludology
227 – Respect the X.

11m27s: To make it clear,
bleed is a normal time period to explain a phenomenon (occurring
primarily in larp) the place a personality’s feelings and identification begin
mixing right into a participant’s feelings and identification, and vice versa. It
may be extraordinarily intense, and larps normally function obligatory
wrap-up periods the place gamers can discuss out emotions that the sport
introduced up. Here is
an article with a few wonderful examples of bleed. Jonaya
Kemper, who Banana mentions,
has written about emancipatory bleed right here. Read extra about
Kemper and her work
right here.

11m59s: Here’s Albert
Kong’s tweet about emancipatory bleed.

12m21s: More information
in regards to the Baphomet larp.

17m29s: Diplomacy
is a sport that is long-established for difficult friendships.

18m41s: Banana’s new RPG, Jiangshi:
Blood within the Banquet Hall, co-designed with Sen-Foong Lim

22m44s: Warp’s
Edge

24m51s:
Angelus Morningstar has a very good write-up on cultural appropriation
in board video games right here. (Also, when Gil says “I want that is
one thing extra board video games would do,” he means “rent cultural
sensitivity readers.”)

29m07s: They’re
Onto Me. The Golden Cobra
Challenge is a contest for freeform larp. 

31m06s:
Dads on Mowers, a module for the RPG Kids on
Bikes.

31m57s: Cobwebs
RPG.

32m19s:
Alice is Missing RPG.

32m37s: Banana is speaking about an episode of the TV collection
Masters of
Horror. This explicit episode (which Gil and Emma won’t ever
watch) is known as “John Carpenter’s Cigarette
Burns.” 

33m53s:
Betrayal at Mystery Mansion is a re-implementation of Betrayal
at House on the Hill, however with a Scooby-Doo theme.

35m58s: As
We Know It.

37m32s: Roll20 is an internet site
that facilitates on-line RPG play. Discord is an internet textual content/voice chat
program for avid gamers.

38m48s: By “corpse,” Gil is referring to the surrealist writing
train Exquisite
Corpse.

41m39s: Banana’s banquet movies: The Invitation,
Get Out,
Coherence. She
additionally mentions Midsommar.

42m28s: Here’s
the article Gil mentions that describes the advantages of
experiencing a horror film totally from its Wikipedia web page.

43m02s: Here’s Avery Alder’s physique horror RPG,
Abnormal.

44m08s: The Park Avenue
Armory, one among Gil’s favourite locations in NYC. Banana discusses
The Funhouse in
Toronto, which is now closed.

46m05s: The mangaka Junji Ito.

46m58s: Battle
of the Boy Bands, a sport by Clio Yun-su Davis and Vicci Ho that Banana revealed
beneath the Game and a Curry label. Enjoy some music from Stray Kids and
BTS.

50m05s: Night
Witches, by Jason Morningstar. We had Jason on in
Ludology 161 What’s the Story, Morning Glory? Banana additionally
mentions his sport Juggernaut.

50m52s: Avery Alder’s Monsterhearts.

51m25s: Here’s the
second within the video Gil was mentioning. Alex Roberts, who performs
the ghost, is the designer of the
award-winning RPG Star Crossed.

52m13: Gil is referring to
Ludology 226 – Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo
Buffalo Buffalo, by which Dr. Mary Flanagan mentioned how
psychological distance helps folks higher affiliate with a
topic.

53m39s: If you are focused on Goat-2-Meeting, listed below are
the main points.

56m44s: The designers Banana mentions are: Jabari Weathers, Jonaya Kemper (talked about
above), and Fertessa
Allyse.