Welcome!
Welcome to Ludology, an analytical dialogue of the hows and whys of the world of board video games. Slightly than information and critiques, Ludology explores quite a lot of subjects about video games from a wider lens, in addition to talk about recreation historical past, recreation design and recreation gamers.
We publish a brand new Ludology episode each different week. In these episodes, hosts Erica Bouyouris and Sen-Foong Lim deep-dive right into a single matter inside recreation design, usually with a well-regarded visitor from the sport trade. We typically concentrate on tabletop recreation design (primarily board video games and RPGs), however we regularly pull in specialists from all types of video games, from video video games to flee rooms to fit machines.
On weeks the place there isn’t any flagship Ludology episode, we are going to alternate between two smaller mini-sodes. Erica and Sen are joyful to announce that Sarah Shipp of Shippboard Video games and Stephanie Campbell of TTRPGKids might be becoming a member of us for the following 12 months, offering extra content material between our longer episodes.
Sarah’s section, Pondering Past Mechanisms, is a month-to-month characteristic that dives deeper into the opposite points of video games past the cube and playing cards we’re all conversant in.
Stephanie’s section, TTRPGKids, explores how mother and father and academics can use position enjoying video games with kids within the residence and within the classroom.
We hope you benefit from the extra content material!
Our Historical past
We goal for many Ludology episodes to be timeless, so you might be welcome to discover our whole catalog. Most of it ought to age fairly effectively. The podcast was began in 2011 by Geoff Engelstein and Ryan Sturm, with Mike Fitzgerald taking up for Ryan in 2015. Gil and Scott joined the present in 2017 when Mike stepped apart, and Emma joined in 2019 when Geoff ended his tenure as host. Emma left in 2021, and Erica and Sen joined us. Since then, Scott stepped down in 2022 and Gil might be hanging up his mic in 2023, leaving Erica and Sen to hold on this superb legacy.
Erica and Sen are working to deliver new voices to Ludology and have some nice issues to announce as gaming expands to incorporate much more individuals!
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Ludology is made potential via the help and donations of listeners such as you.
We presently have 3 “First Pay attention” sequence that may exit to Patrons effectively upfront of the audio being launched to the broader viewers.
- The Recollections that Made Us (month-to-month) – reminiscences about gaming experiences that helped form the folks that deliver fashionable video games to life
- Tales from the Designer Toolbox (month-to-month) – suggestions and methods from trade execs realized from each success and failure
- Ludology Stay – recordings from conventions world wide
Patrons will even get further consideration for any giveaways that we would have!
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