Chris Ferguson recommended the Atari 2600 console. Sam Illingworth recommended Betrayal at House on the Hill Pete Etchells recommeded Untitled Goose Game Sam Wake recommended Cain's Jawbone Nic Whitton recommended the Librarian's Almanaq Holl

Aiyana Ballin interview

Nov 13th, 2019 42m 50s

Aiyana's brilliant article for Scientific American is here Here blog, all of which is 100% worth reading, is here

Neurodiversity with Aiyana Ballin

Nov 13th, 2019 42m 50s

Aiyana's brilliant article for Scientific American is here Here blog, all of which is 100% worth reading, is here

Maggi Laurie

Oct 30th, 2019 32m 8s

Margaret talked about a few games Subnautica My time at Portia She used the following toys in her research Toca Boca tea party Osmo Code-a-pillar Maggi's research interests https://www.sldo.ac.uk/ https://dart.ed.ac.uk/research/autism-tech-play

Paul wake

Oct 12th, 2019 47m 29s

Paul Wake is a big part of the Manchester games studies network: https://www.manchestergamestudies.org/ His current kickstarter is at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1010climateaction/carbon-city-zero If you're interested in the zones of p

Holly Nielsen

Oct 6th, 2019 1h

If you want to catch up with Holly's writing, here's a taster: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/03/11/players-react-to-video-games-in-unexpected-ways-and-scary-edutainment-games-prove-it/ https://wireframe.raspberrypi.org/features/ther

Episode 11 with Minkette

Sep 18th, 2019 1h 10m

Minkette (@mink_ette on twitter) is a designer of games of all sorts, as well as a speaker and podcaster. Her escape room site is here I strongly recommend her talks which can be found here And her podcasts are here Mink mentions this book: ht

Episode 10 with James Wallis (again)

Sep 5th, 2019 1h 4m

James' book, Board Games in 100 moves, is out on the 5th September: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Board-Games-in-100-Moves-by-Ian-Livingstone-author-James-Wallis-author/9781465485755 James can be found on twitter @jameswallis And hi

Episode 9 with Holly Gramazio

Aug 31st, 2019 44m 35s

Holly's main website is here: http://www.hollygramazio.net/ She talked about quite a few things. candy box:https://candybox2.github.io/ dicey dungeons: https://store.steampowered.com/app/861540/Dicey_Dungeons/ Now Play This: https://www.somerse

Episode 8 with Jason Perez

Jul 3rd, 2019 1h 8m

Where to start? Max starts off comparing Jason to a burlesque dancer, then Jason sings to illustrate the concept of trauma. They talk about a ton of games they love and end up debating whether flow is a self-centred phenomenon! Who is Jason, y

Jason Perez from Every Night is Game Night

Jul 3rd, 2019 1h 8m

Chat with Nicola Whitton

Jun 6th, 2019 51m 25s

Max is joined by the very brilliant Nic Whitton. She is @nicwhitton on Twitter. The playful learning conference is here Liz Hargrave designed Wingspan and has Tussie Mussie coming soon. For some reason Max forgot to say the name of the first

Episode 6 with Jane Sivyer

May 29th, 2019 27m 55s

Jane's work and that of the amazing Evelina play team can be found at https://www.evelinalondon.nhs.uk/our-services/hospital/play-specialists/team.aspx If you want to help support the hospital's work, go to https://www.supportevelina.org.uk/get

Episode 5 with Ivan Brett

May 14th, 2019 35m 11s

Ivan Brett is a teacher, author and play obessive. His book and podcast are both called the Floor is Lava, and both are a pure joy. www.ivanbrett.com Ivan and Max talked about adventure, play and encouraging kids into the play space. Enjoy! If

Episode four with Chris Ferguson

Apr 16th, 2019 33m 31s

Max talks to Chris Ferguson, psychology professor at Stetson University, and author of 'Moral Combat', about moral panic, video games, D&D and giving play back to kids. Chris' website: http://www.christopherjferguson.com/ The Bowler hat was ind

Play is the thing episode three with Sam Illingworth

Apr 6th, 2019 28m 41s

To find out more about Sam's work go to https://www.manchestergamestudies.org/ Also, some top blogging there.

Episode two: James Wallis

Mar 24th, 2019 46m 29s

In our second episode, Max goes to visit James Wallis, game designer, writer, thinker and historian (but, allegedly, not an academic!) James mentions a lot of books, writers and games: here are some possibly helpful links- if there's anything e

Play is the thing Episode One

Mar 5th, 2019 55m 16s

For his first podcast episode, Max talks to Pete Etchells, psychologist and gamer, about his new book 'lost in a good game', attitudes to play and why neither of us like mobile games! Pete's book can be pre-ordered here Follow us on Twitter @p