Podcasts about resistjam

In this extra-long, bonus, feature-length episode, special guest Sabeen Ahmed joins us for a discussion about how games intersect with contemporary political activism. We work through some of the regressive tendencies in modern gaming cultures, take up Bogost's idea of procedural rhetoric, and talk about how a few games from the recent #ResistJam might speak to our political moment and inform our political activity. We also take up the question of what resistance means for the left in 2017. ---------- Timestamps 00:00 - 04:37 - Introduction 04:37 - 20:10 - Politics in and around games 21:39 - 34:52 - Discussion of Bogost 35:57 - 49:29 - Pivotal 49:29 - 1:11:19 - Wake Up 1:11:19 - 1:32:25 - If Not Now, When? 1:32:25 - 1:48:30 - Discussion of Frost -------------- Objects Discussed Texts: - Chapter 1 of Persuasive Games (Ian Bogost, 2010) - All Worked Up and Nowhere To Go (Amber A’Lee Frost, 2017) Games: - If Not Now, When? (https://ravynn.itch.io/if-not-now-when) - Pivotal (https://jellymachete.itch.io/pivotal) - Wake Up (https://inverge-studios.itch.io/wake-up, Inverge Studios) -------------- Hosts Derek Price - twitter.com/digital_derek Terrell Taylor - twitter.com/BlackSocrates Kyle Romero - twitter.com/E_Kyle_Romero Sabeen Ahmed -------------- Contact us! E-mail: scholarsatplaypodcast@gmail.com Twitter: twitter.com/ScholarsAtPlay scholarsatplay.net -------------- Special thanks: Visager (twitter.com/visagermusic) for the use of their song "The Plateau at Night"

Apologies in advance to all residents of Los Angeles who are fans of the city they live in, but the opening moments of this podcast are not kind. As it turns out, Austin has some thoughts on cities, yours included. Elsewhere, Austin discusses his opening hours with the latest from Epic Games, Fortnite, Rob catches us up on his time with Darkest Dungeon, Patrick reminisces about getting everyone killed in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and Danielle tells us what #ResistJam is all about. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

GlitchCast is back from hiatus, with an episode entirely devoted Maxwell’s adventures in Australia. Just kidding: it’s about totalitarianism and despair. Welcome back, friends! Karen takes us into the (increasingly realistic) dystopic realms of indie games “Orwell” and “Papers Please”, investigating the impact of surveillance culture in gaming. Yes, this is a very political episode. Yes, you might cry. But it’s not all doom and gloom! We have cats in head scarves, and Tom provides his usual witty commentary. We also talk ResistJam, the international week of indie developers coming up with games to combat the resurgence of fascism—which is not an RPG subtitle but an actual scary thing that is actually happening). And Max recounts Melbourne’s thriving gaming scene and wishes he could be back in the land of mint Aero bars and tim tams. Seriously, he won’t shut up about those tim tams. Glory to GlitchCast!

Ideas to Action is my (Chris DeLeon's) talk for #ResistJam, a recent activist game jam. In it I lay out how to apply jam skills and strategies to bigger, non-jam goals. Emceed by Maize Wallin. Music by Danny Baranowsky.