Choose Your Character is a podcast that explores identity through video games. Each episode, hosts Beth Casey, Emily Asaro and Ashtyn Davis explore a different video game and discuss what the characters and choices reveal about themselves.
Emily, Ash, & Beth talk moral challenges and the action-adventure game Indigo Prophecy (Fahrenheit). Follow Choose Your Character on Twitch Choose Your Character is produced by Beth Casey-Davis, Emily Asaro, Ashtyn Casey-Davis & Kent M. Wilhelm and is part of The Atlantic Transmission. Follow Choose Your Character on TwitterFollow Choose Your Character on Instagram Help […]
Ash, Emily & Beth get into indie RPG Undertale and reflecting on ones choices, however minor they may be. Follow Choose Your Character on Twitch Choose Your Character is produced by Beth Casey-Davis, Emily Asaro, Ashtyn Casey-Davis & Kent M. Wilhelm and is part of The Atlantic Transmission. Follow Choose Your Character on TwitterFollow Choose […]
Get your lift tickets because Beth, Emily & Ash are ascending the mountain to discuss the dating profiles in the snow shredding SSX Tricky. Follow Choose Your Character on Twitch Choose Your Character is produced by Beth Casey-Davis, Emily Asaro, Ashtyn Casey-Davis & Kent M. Wilhelm and is part of The Atlantic Transmission. Follow Choose […]
Ash, Beth & Emily discuss the hard rockin' phenomenon Guitar Hero and the dedication it engendered in its players. Follow Choose Your Character on Twitch Choose Your Character is produced by Beth Casey-Davis, Emily Asaro, Ashtyn Casey-Davis & Kent M. Wilhelm and is part of The Atlantic Transmission. Follow Choose Your Character on TwitterFollow Choose […]
The gang looks at what it takes to survive in their discussion of the bucolic, cannibalistic horror simulator, The Forest. Follow Choose Your Character on Twitch Choose Your Character is produced by Beth Casey-Davis, Emily Asaro, Ashtyn Casey-Davis & Kent M. Wilhelm and is part of The Atlantic Transmission. Follow Choose Your Character on TwitterFollow […]
Ash, Beth and Emily mine the darker side of their personas as they discuss vengeance and The Last of Us Part II. Follow Choose Your Character on Twitch Choose Your Character is produced by Beth Casey-Davis, Emily Asaro, Ashtyn Casey-Davis & Kent M. Wilhelm and is part of The Atlantic Transmission. Follow Choose Your Character […]
Beth, Ash and Emily discuss the pandemic’s escapist sensation Animal Crossing. Follow Choose Your Character on Twitch Choose Your Character is produced by Beth Casey-Davis, Emily Asaro, Ashtyn Casey-Davis & Kent M. Wilhelm and is part of The Atlantic Transmission. Follow Choose Your Character on TwitterFollow Choose Your Character on Instagram Help support our independent […]
Beth, Emily and Ash remotely log in to discuss the virtual parlor game sensation Jackbox Games. Follow Choose Your Character on Twitch Choose Your Character is produced by Beth Casey-Davis, Emily Asaro, Ashtyn Casey-Davis & Kent M. Wilhelm and is part of The Atlantic Transmission. Follow Choose Your Character on TwitterFollow Choose Your Character on […]
Beth, Emily and Ash get into anxiety and its place in the Hideo Kojima/Guillermo del Toro horror collaboration P.T. Follow Choose Your Character on Twitch Choose Your Character is produced by Beth Casey-Davis, Emily Asaro, Ashtyn Casey-Davis & Kent M. Wilhelm and is part of The Atlantic Transmission. Follow Choose Your Character on TwitterFollow Choose […]
Beth, Emily and Ash discuss guilt and redemption in the much beloved third installment of the Bioshock franchise: Bioshock Infinite. They get into Comstock’s journey and the actions he reckons with as well as their own stories. Follow Choose Your Character on Twitch Choose Your Character is produced by Beth Casey, Emily Asaro, Ashtyn Davis […]
It feels good to be back! Beth, Ash and Emily discuss the long-running and much-beloved Nintendo series Super Smash Bros. They track their relationship to the battle royale series over the years as well as to the game’s competitive social aspect. Joining them in their discussion is Emily’s childhood friend, Timmy Palmieri, to share tales […]
Beth, Emily & Ash explore their takes on g-g-g-ghosts! Using the first installment of the Supermassive Games’ The Dark Pictures Anhtology, Man of Medan, they discuss their connections to the paranormal. Check out the episodes from season one and the mobile games mini-season! Follow Choose Your Character on Twitch Choose Your Character is produced by […]
Beth, Emily and Ash have a special treat for you this season. They’re gonna do a freaking monthly Twitch game stream! Their first stream is Wednesday, January 22. Check them out at twitch.tv/cycpod
Beth, Emily and Ash are put on the proverbial stand as they justify, explain and defend the choices they made in THE ELDER SCROLLS IV: OBLIVION. Check out the episodes from season one and the mobile games mini-season! Follow Choose Your Character on Twitter Choose Your Character is produced by Beth Casey, Emily Asaro, Ashtyn Davis […]
Beth, Emily and Ash travel to the not-so-distant past of 2004 to look at the representation of women in WWE DAY OF RECKONING. They discuss what’s expected of young ladies, what’s changed and what hasn’t changed. Check out the episodes from season one and the mobile games mini-season! Follow Choose Your Character on Twitter Choose […]
Beth, Ash & Emily explore what makes and what breaks a hero. Using Beth’s favorite series MASS EFFECT, the trio explores questions of good and evil and what ‘do’ you want to do vs. what ‘should’ you want to do. Check out the episodes from season one and the mobile games mini-season! Follow Choose Your […]
TEAMWORK! Is a group greater than the sum of its parts or does human nature get in the way of reaching a collective’s true potential? Beth, Emily and Ash explore the pros and cons of working in groups using cooking sim Overcooked. Of course it’s hard to split the triad up into equal teams so […]
The tri-force of Beth, Emily & Ash explore social relationships through The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina fo Time and The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Check out the episodes from season one and the mobile games mini-season! Choose Your Character is produced by Beth Casey, Emily Asaro, Ashtyn Davis & Kent M. Wilhelm and is […]
Beth, Emily & Ash discuss their emotionally draining experience with Doki Doki Literature Club! Check out the episodes from season one and the mobile games mini-season! Choose Your Character is produced by Beth Casey, Emily Asaro, Ashtyn Davis & Kent M. Wilhelm and is part of The Atlantic Transmission. Follow Choose Your Character on Twitter […]
Season two kicks off with a party! Beth, Emily and Ash explore their competitive sides through the long-running mini-game series Mario Party. Check out the episodes from season one and the mobile games mini-season! Choose Your Character is produced by Beth Casey, Emily Asaro, Ashtyn Davis & Kent M. Wilhelm and is part of The […]
The mobile game mini-season concludes with Emily’s pick, the fast-paced cooking game Cooking Craze. Beth, Emily, and Ash discuss the game and how it related to the satisfying sensation of “efficiency porn”; the satisfaction one experiences when seeing a task being done with efficiency, grace and speed. In this second season, the ladies discuss some […]
Beth, Emily & Ash discuss the affects of instant gratification in their new lives in the bucolic splendor that is Stardew Valley. Is patience virtue, and if so does it matter? In this second season, the ladies discuss some of their favorite mobile games. Check out the episodes from the first sseason! Choose Your Character […]
We kick off our mini season on mobile games with Beth’s favorite, Choices: Stories You Play; where Beth, Emily and Ash learn that one choice can change everything. Check out the episodes from our first sseason! Choose Your Character is produced by Beth Casey, Emily Asaro, Ashtyn Davis & Kent M. Wilhelm and is part […]
On the finale of our inagural season, Beth, Emily & Ashtyn take a look at the enormously popular sequel Red Dead Redemption 2 from Rockstar Games through the lens of the Asch Paradigm, a series of studies that explored if and how people agree with or defy the majority of their group. Thank you all […]
Human experience is inevitable filled with anxiety, pain, loss, and destruction as is the experience of playing through The Last of Us. Beth, Emily & Ashtyn discuss the poignant journey of Joel and Ellie accross a post-apocalyptic United States. Season 1 Episode 7 Follow Choose Your Character on Twitter Follow Choose Your Character on Instagram […]
Beth, Emily & Ash discuss “The Trolley Problem” and it’s place in the Square Enix graphic adventure Life Is Strange as well as the game’s effective emphasis on the reality of adolescent life. With fate in your hands, who do you save? The many or the few? We found out it depends who the few […]
Beth, Emily & Ash explore psychological inheritance and how it pertains to What Remains of Edith Finch. They discuss what gets passed down through their families and the role it plays in their lives now. They also talk about what is fate and what is the curse that plagues the game’s family. Season 1 Episode […]
Beth, Emily & Ash choose their own adventure in the butterfly effect, horror, adventure game, Until Dawn. With voices by stars like Hayden Panettiere and the Oscar winning Rami Malek your hosts discuss the choices they made and how it affected their gameplay. Also, Emily shares a reading of a tasty Until Dawn fan-fic. Season […]
Beth, Emily and Ash load up the choice reliant, android having world of Detroit: Become Human (2017). Season 1 Episode 3 Follow Choose Your Character on Twitter Follow Choose Your Character on Instagram Help support our independent podcast network by shopping on Amazon using our referral link or make a donation. Support independent media!
Beth, Emily & Ash get into the long running fight franchise, Soulcalibur. The gals discuss wanting to be good at something, being good at it and wanting people to see you be good at it. With the series being Emily’s favorite, she takes the opportunity to really peacock sharing her “hate blanket” and “pocket of […]
In the inagural episode of Choose Your Character Beth, Emily & Ashtyn discuss the long-running, playing god franchise The SIMS. Follow Choose Your Character on Twitter Follow Choose Your Character on Instagram
Choose Your Character is a podcast that explores identity through video games. Each episode, hosts Beth Casey, Emily Asaro and Ashtyn Davis explore a different video game and discuss what the characters and choices reveal about themselves. Subscribe now!
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