Mind Games Podcast

This episode is reflections on Season 1, and an appeal for Season 2. Look below, click on the kickstart-y one, then click 'notify me of launch'. Visit our website: https://www.mindgamespodcast.com/Check out our kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mindgamespodcast/the-mind-games-podcast-season-2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Olivier Morin and Dr. Oleg Sobchuck discuss the nature of fiction, monsters, and death.Visit our website: https://www.mindgamespodcast.com/Check out our kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mindgamespodcast/the-mind-games-podcast-season-2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Sean Roberts (Linguist) and Dr. Tim Knowleton (Anthropologist) talk language, tropes, and monsters. How can tropes be immersive, and how can you use language (and accents) for rich world-building, and we ask the question 'when is a monster not a monster?'. Also, when should you blink. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kellynn Wee discusses the impermenant yet enduring nature of TTRPG's, the role it can play in structuring and meaning-making in our lives, and her own meditative, nature-based, post-apocalyptic techno-future TTRPG called 'Move Quietly and Tend Things'. Visit our website: https://www.mindgamespodcast.com/Check out our kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mindgamespodcast/the-mind-games-podcast-season-2Mov Quietly and Tend Things: https://wildletters.itch.io/move-quietly-and-tend-things Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Edgar Duborg and Valentin Thouzeau discuss why humans invent imaginary worlds. What makes us want to create, explore and elaborate upon them? We discuss everything from Stardew Valley to Lord of the Rings, and how this applies to the co-constructed worlds of TTRPGs.Visit our website: https://www.mindgamespodcast.com/Check out our kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mindgamespodcast/the-mind-games-podcast-season-2Link to the West Marches Video discussed by Rohan and Kathryn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGAC-gBoX9k&t=1408s Link to Microscope: https://www.lamemage.com/microscope/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.