We play Hey Robot!, a game where you try to get your smart speaker to say a specific word. Which, as you might imagine, is much more difficult (and hilarious) than you might think. My guests are two of Hey Robot’s creators, Frank and Hilary Lan

Special Episode: A Media Historian Plays Animal Crossing

Sep 22nd, 2020 50m 3s

As we were wrapping up this season, I reached out to some of my earliest guests to record some extra bits for their episodes – and one of those people was Laine Nooney, from the episode: Is Untitled Goose Game Queer? While I meant to talk with

Bowling for Fun(ny) with Rob Dubbin

Sep 15th, 2020 37m 9s

In this episode of Fun Games with Serious People, I play the charmingly ridiculous game Alfonso’s Bowling Challenge with writer, comedian and entrepreneur Rob Dubbin. We discuss Rob’s writing days for the Steven Colbert Show and his recent ent

Is Untitled Goose Game Queer?

Sep 8th, 2020 54m 27s

We play Untitled Goose Game, a game where you play… a goose! But the question I have is for my special guests, media theorist Bonnie Ruberg and historian Laine Nooney is, is Untitled Goose Game Queer? Listen to find out! (filmed and recorded Oc

You Can’t Monopolize Monopoly.

Sep 4th, 2020 49m 33s

Did you know that Monopoly had its origins in anti-monopolism? It’s called “The Landlord’s Game”, and activist game designer Elizabeth Magie created it in 1904 to teach the economic philosophies of Henry George. In this episode, we’ll explore t

Welcome to Fun Games with Serious People!

Aug 24th, 2020 1m 43s

Welcome to Fun Games with Serious People: A podcast where we play fun games and talk about serious stuff, like economics, or artificial intelligence, or queer theory. I’m your host, Colleen Macklin, and I’m a game designer and professor at Pars

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