The Journey to Lake Geneva – Spot Check 24
by NICK MIZER In which I pronounce Jason Azze’s name correctly, worry about “first contact” with old school gamers, and…
by NICK MIZER In which I pronounce Jason Azze’s name correctly, worry about “first contact” with old school gamers, and…
by NICK MIZER Spot Check returns! In this episode I talk about the role of conventions in gaming culture, the…
When I was a kid I used to love making forts with my best friend, carefully adding couch cushions, blankets,…
Over the past year I’ve been learning some great lessons about interdisciplinarity through conversations with a great group of scholars interested in analog games (centrally, but not solely, RPGs). These conversations started informally at the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association, and have evolved into a new online journal, Analog Game Studies.
(Part 3 of a series on what it might look like to think of “geek” as a mode in which scholarly…