Play of the Light aims to be a smart, regular, and timeless conversation about videogames. Not a news or reviews show, Play of the Light instead attempts to live up to its name by examining videogames as an artform growing ever more central to human culture, and deserving of thoughtful discussion.

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Jason McIntosh is an independent game-studies scholar who writes game criticism for the blog The Gameshelf. Past audiovisual production work includes Jmac’s Arcade, a series of video monologues on growing up in the arcade culture of the 1980s. His interactive fiction The Warbler’s Nest won the 2010 XYZZY award for Best Story.

Matthew Weise led many student game projects during his years as a full-time designer with the GAMBIT Game Lab at MIT, ending with the IGF award-nominated The Snowfield. He currently works as a narrative designer for Harmonix, and maintains the game criticism blog Outside Your Heaven.