Mind Games Podcast

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

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.

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

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/

Where and how do we draw a boundary between what we imagine, and what we are? Between the person we are at work and at home? And whether or not the characters we play are something alien, or just an extension of ourselves that we merely give permission to exist.Visit our website: https://www.mindgamespodcast.com/Check out our kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mindgamespodcast/the-mind-games-podcast-season-2Join our discord: https://discord.gg/ymKrdnGjm8

Dr. Marc Andersen discusses the nature of surprise, and why surprise is at the very heart of play (and most of human functioning). We also discuss why (some) humans like horror, and why horror itself can be pleasurable and valuable (and how we can incorporate horror into our TTRPG practice). Also, a brief discussion of cancer and death, whynot? Visit our website: https://www.mindgamespodcast.com/Check out our kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mindgamespodcast/the-mind-games-podcast-season-2Join our discord: https://discord.gg/ymKrdnGjm8

Dr. Kathryn Francis and Dr. Ethan Landes discuss the moral implications of playing D&D, and why we care about things that do not exist. We also discuss to what extent we should embrace the messiness of morality in absurd fantasy games, rather than clean, pure, solvable moral positions. Visit our website: https://www.mindgamespodcast.com/Check out our kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mindgamespodcast/the-mind-games-podcast-season-2Join our discord: https://discord.gg/ymKrdnGjm8

Dr. Thalia Goldstein discusses how theatre and improv - the finer arts - can inform how we understand ourselves in the context of a silly game of wizard, orcs, obvious-traps-we-shouldn't-touch-but-touch-anyway.Visit our website: https://www.mindgamespodcast.com/Check out our kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mindgamespodcast/the-mind-games-podcast-season-2Join our discord: https://discord.gg/ymKrdnGjm8Thalia's book is available for pre-order on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the Teacher's College Press website.The book website - TheatreEdMatters.com - will be live in late March/ Early April, 2024.