On this episode of Playthink, Eric Zimmerman and Tracy Fullerton discuss the recently released “The Infinite Playground,” the final book by visionary game designer Bernie De Koven, written with Holly Gramazio and edited by Celia Pearce and Eric

Bonnie Ruberg at Playthink

Sep 11th, 2019 55m 56s

Bonnie Ruberg's work explores gender and sexuality in digital media and digital cultures with a focus on queerness and video games. On this episode of Playthink, Ruberg discusses their book "Video Games Have Always Been Queer" with Jeff Watson.

Liz Ryerson at Playthink

Apr 24th, 2019 1h 6m

Liz Ryerson is a composer, critic and occasional game designer and podcaster. On this episode of Playthink, Liz and USC Games professor Jane Pinckard discuss her work across games, journalism and the future of game workers. NOTE: There were aud

Paul Slocum at Playthink

Mar 26th, 2019 1h 1m

Paul Slocum is an artist, software developer, curator, and musician based in Pasadena, California. He is director of a new media art gallery called And/Or Gallery that exhibits digital art and develops software for digital art displays and musi

Magalis Videaux-Martinez at Playthink

Feb 26th, 2019 54m 37s

Videaux-Martinez's work lives at the intersection of experience design, immersive storytelling and experiential learning. Here, she discusses her newest project the Imagination Lab, a learning and play-space at Hawkins High School's Critical De

Capital W at Playthink

Nov 21st, 2018 1h 8m

Capital W is an immersive theater group run by Lauren Ludwig and Monica Miklas and well known for its award-winning project Hamlet-Mobile, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet staged in a cargo van. Capital W joined professor Jane Pinckard at

Brian Upton at Playthink

Oct 17th, 2018 1h 16m

Brian Upton is an internationally-known game designer and game theorist with over 20 years of professional experience in the game industry. For 14 years he worked as a senior game designer at Sony’s Santa Monica Studio where he collaborated wi

Adam Badawy at Playthink

Sep 19th, 2018 57m 38s

Adam Badawy is a computational social scientist and a PhD candidate in the Political Science Department and Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California (USC). Working at the Machine Intelligence and Data Scienc

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