Ludology: Ludology 226 – Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo

Could 31, 2020

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

Customer in Blackwood Grove, Buffalo,
Awkward
Second, and plethora of different video games in a myriad of kinds and
platforms, from social gathering to technique on digital in tabletop. Dr.
Flanagan can be an artist, having exhibited works (many
game-related) all world wide, and teaches sport design at
Dartmouth, who additionally hosts her sport 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 sport that gamers really take pleasure in, however that’s nonetheless
efficient at constructing empathy and combating prejudice?

CONTENT WARNING: There’s a transient 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 sport design and analysis lab at Dartmouth 

1m57s: In case you’re studying this, congratulations, you are studying
the present notes!

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

Biography of a Board Recreation 221.5.

4m27s: For extra data on these French Revolution-themed
variations of Recreation of the Goose (Jeu de la Revolution Francaise),
try
web page 17 of this PDF. It is also fascinating to notice that
Robespierre tried to put in a brand new state faith for France
throughout 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. Maybe it additionally helped with the weird decimal-time-based
calendar that Robespierre could not get to stay, however that also
frustrates historians to this present day.

5m30s: Extra details about Dr. Flanagan’s e-book, Essential
Play.

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

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

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

8m13s: Extra information on Revenue Seed.

8m33s: Extra information on Layoff.

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

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

15m04s: Extra 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
sport from the unique European launch’s identify, Diamant,
but it surely was launched in English as Incan Gold.)

19m51s: For an extended dialogue on what “enjoyable” means in a sport,
and on a deeper stage, how video games create that means, try
Ludology 201 – Are We Having Enjoyable But?

21m20s: Extra information on the social gathering sport Buffalo.

24m14s: Extra information on social
identification complexity

26m13s: Extra information on the social gathering sport Awkward
Second.

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

this text from Nancy Foasberg.

32m26s: “Failed
Video games: Classes Realized from Promising however Problematic Recreation
Prototypes in Designing for Variety,” by Dr. Flanagan, Max
Seidman, and Geoff Kaufman.

34m15s: Dr. Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard College,
has
instructed that organic variations might clarify why there
have been fewer girls in science. 

36m18s: Extra information about Blokus.

39m39s: Extra information on the technique sport Monarch.

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

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

45m12s: Extra information on This
Conflict of Mine: The Board Recreation and
Freedom: The Underground Railroad.

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

50m40s: Gabriel Orozco’s Horses Working
Endlessly.

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

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

56m28s:
Here is an article in Wired on the paper in query, during which
massive collections of pictures used to coach image-recognition
software program – together with one utilized by Google and Microsoft – have been discovered
to amplify exisiting biases. 

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

57m42s: Extra information about Reload: Rethinking Girls
and Cyberculture.

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

1h03m31s: The present will probably be referred to as “Gameplay:
Video Recreation Tradition,” on the CCCB in Barcelona, Spain. 

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

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