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| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
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| Hey Robot! AI is made of people! | 28 Sep 2020 | 00:52:03 | |
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 Robotās creators, Frank and Hilary Lantz, and Brooklyn-based programmer and artist Nicole He. Oh, and [ā¦] The post Hey Robot! AI is made of people! appeared first on Fun Games with Serious People. | |||
| Special Episode: A Media Historian Plays Animal Crossing | 22 Sep 2020 | 00:50:03 | |
As we were wrapping up this season, I reached out to some of my earliest guests to record some extra bits for their episodes ā and one of those people was Laine Nooney, from the episode: Is Untitled Goose Game Queer? While I meant to talk with Laine about some topics that came up during [ā¦] The post Special Episode: A Media Historian Plays Animal Crossing appeared first on Fun Games with Serious People. | |||
| Bowling for Fun(ny) with Rob Dubbin | 15 Sep 2020 | 00:37:09 | |
In this episode of Fun Games with Serious People, I play the charmingly ridiculous game Alfonsoās Bowling ChallengeĀ with writer, comedian and entrepreneur Rob Dubbin. We discuss Robās writing days for the Steven Colbert Show and his recent entrepreneurial turn with his company Scripto . Thereās also a great story about a goat in New [ā¦] The post Bowling for Fun(ny) with Rob Dubbin appeared first on Fun Games with Serious People. | |||
| Is Untitled Goose Game Queer? | 08 Sep 2020 | 00:54:27 | |
We play Untitled Goose Game, a game where you playā¦ 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 October 2019) Ā Listen to the full episode: Ā Additional Content Unedited [ā¦] The post Is Untitled Goose Game Queer? appeared first on Fun Games with Serious People. | |||
| You Canāt Monopolize Monopoly. | 04 Sep 2020 | 00:49:33 | |
Did you know that Monopoly had its origins in anti-monopolism? Itās called āThe Landlordās Gameā, and activist game designer Elizabeth Magie created it in 1904 to teach the economic philosophies of Henry George. In this episode, weāll explore the secret history of Monopoly with Mary Pilon, a journalist who started writing what she thought would [ā¦] The post You Canāt Monopolize Monopoly. appeared first on Fun Games with Serious People. | |||
| Welcome to Fun Games with Serious People! | 24 Aug 2020 | 00:01:43 | |
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. Iām your host, Colleen Macklin, and Iām a game designer and professor at Parsons School of Design in NYC. Iām interested in how we learn to navigate the [ā¦] The post Welcome to Fun Games with Serious People! appeared first on Fun Games with Serious People. | |||