Ludology: Ludology 240 – Are You Receiving Me?

Dec 13, 2020

Emma and Gil welcome Adrienne Smith, designer of the
card recreation Blitz Champz and
vast receiver for the Boston Renegades girls’s gridiron soccer
workforce. We talk about the intersection of mass market, youngsters, and sports activities
recreation design, the state of ladies’s soccer in trendy America, and
serial entrepreneurship.

This episode was recorded on November 16, 2020. A few
weeks later, Vanderbilt introduced their varsity girls’s soccer
goalie, Sarah Fuller, onto their males’s soccer workforce as a
kicker.

Be aware: This would be the final Ludology
episode of 2020! We’re taking our annual winter break, throughout
which era there will likely be no episodes of Ludology, Biography of a
Board Sport, or GameTek. We are going to return on January 10, 2021 with our
annual “State of the Trade” episode with the Podfather, Stephen
Buonocore.

SHOW NOTES

2m05s: Questioning how one can
throw a spiral?

3m18s: Adrienne performed for the New York Sharks. This is the
internet web page for the IFAF.

3m56s: Extra
details about
Jen Welter, the primary feminine coach within the NFL.

5m14s: Gil wrote
a Twitter thread concerning the historical past of ladies in soccer after
the information about Sarah Fuller broke.

5m46s:
Ladies’s old-school soccer pants, versus
MC Hammer’s pants.

8m03s: The Ladies’s
Soccer Alliance, and the Ladies’s Nationwide Soccer
Convention

10m17s: Extra information about
Final, initially known as Final Frisbee.

10m42s: Extra information about
Final Corridor of Famer Molly Goodwin.

14m00s: Adrienne is right! The periodic desk of the weather
was first envisioned by Dmitri
Mendeleev. Mentioned he, “I noticed in a dream a desk the place all
components fell into place as required. Awakening, I instantly
wrote it down on a bit of paper, solely in a single place did a
correction later appear vital.”

21m56s: You possibly can hear extra from our interview with graphic/recreation
designer Daniel Solis on Ludology
204 – The Eyes Have It.

25m23s: This is
a more in-depth have a look at Adrienne’s “Passing TD” card.

27m26s: You possibly can hear extra from our interview with mass market
toy/recreation designer Kim Vandenbrouke on Ludology
212 – Inventing Play.

29m47s: This is a clip of the
wonderful Kyler Murray “Hail Mary” move that one way or the other landed in
D’Andre Hopkins’ arms. This occurred the day earlier than we recorded. (I
don’t advocate Payments followers clicking on that hyperlink.)

34m28s: Adrienne is speaking about New England Patriots head
coach Invoice
Belichick, winner of 6 Tremendous Bowls. 

42m46s: Extra information about Gotham Women’ Curler
Derby, the NYC-based curler derby group. (There are
different implausible curler derby organizations around the globe, like
the world #1-ranked Rose Metropolis
Rollers in Portland, OR, and the world #2-ranked Victorian Curler Derby League in Melbourne,
Australia, all run by the Ladies’s Flat
Monitor Derby Affiliation.)

44m17s: You possibly can hear extra about Omari Akhil’s views on the
intersection of sports activities and video games in Ludology
233 – A Sporting Likelihood. 

55m26s: The legendary arcade recreation Galaga.

58m37s: It might not have been a twister that hit NYC on November
15, however
it appears to have come very shut to at least one.

1h07m49s: Extra
information about Title IX, handed within the US in 1972, which prohibits
discrimination in schooling based mostly on intercourse. The upshot of that is
that for many sports activities, if a college needed to subject a males’s workforce in a
given sport, they needed to subject a girls’s workforce as effectively. 

1h09m03s: Pop
Warner Soccer is a US group for youth soccer,
roughly equal to Little League baseball. It is named for
legendary coach
Pop Warner. Additionally, extra details about
Utah Women Sort out Soccer.

1h10m51s: If you wish to know extra about minorities within the
center ages, an important place to start out is Individuals of Coloration in European Artwork
Historical past.

1h13m48s: This is Adrienne’s Instagram
web page.