Podcasts by Ludiphilia
Everyone plays. Kids and adults. Men and women. Uptight or relaxed. Tall or short, from any place on the Earth and with any skin colour. We play with our hair and our food. We play when we tease our friends and family about their weird habits. We play videogames and boardgames. We roleplay as practice for a big interview or new job, or just for fun. Play is a natural part of being human, and even if we don
Further podcasts by Richard Moss
Podcast on the topic Gesellschaft und Kultur
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Episode 13: The Toys That Made Us from 2019-06-29T09:00
I talk the business of toys and pop culture, and what goes into making a documentary series about their history, with The Toys That Made Us producer/director Brian Volk-Weiss. Brian has lots to say...
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Singapore at Play from 2019-04-05T05:00
An experimental piece on a travel experience of mine last year. I went to Singapore for a week with my fiancée in July and was surprised to find lots of playful touches, despite — or maybe because ...
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Bonus/micro ep: The play of professional Minecraft building from 2019-02-02T06:00
I'm back! Well, partly. New episodes are on the way, and in the meantime I thought you might enjoy this excerpt from an interview I conducted a couple of years ago about professional Minecraft ...
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Episode 12: Playful Mapping from 2018-08-11T08:00
Geographer Chris Perkins, co-author of the book Playful Mapping in the Digital Age, shares his love of maps and helps me explore the deep connection between mapping and play. Thanks to my awesome...
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Re-issue of the Chaim Gingold (Earth Primer, Spore) segment from Ep1 from 2018-01-09T16:00
In celebration of the release of a Mac version of the award-winning app Earth Primer — a science book for playful people — I thought it'd be nice to dig out the segment I did with its creator, ...
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Episode 11: The Hide&Seek World Championship from 2017-12-20T15:00
On the Nascondino World Championship, a yearly hide and seek tournament that attracts teams from all around the globe. I talked to Alan Jones, the co-captain of the Australian team, the Nascondingo...
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Episode 10: Beyond Monks (If Monks Had Macs part 2) from 2017-07-16T14:00
Life after If Monks Had Macs aka What Brian Thomas did next; ruminations on photography and the politics of art and play. (Based on an interview conducted in early January 2017.) Relevant links:h...
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Episode 9: If Monks Had Macs from 2017-04-14T07:00
It all started with a Macintosh ad:'You too can be a knowledge worker.' This is the story of Brian Thomas' 15-year odyssey at the helm of one of the strangest pieces of multimedia softw...
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A Brief Note on the Delay from 2017-03-21T03:00
I know I said I'd have a new episode out in February, and now we're in the second half of March. There's a reason for that. The short version is that I'm waiting to publish the ne...
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Episode 8: Locke from 2017-01-25T02:00
We're back! So sorry it took so long. Regular service (new episodes every 4-6 weeks) will now resume. On the eve of the Industrial Revolution and the morn of the English Civil War, one man re...
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Episode 7: Ausretrogamer from 2016-08-09T16:00
When Alex Boz dug his Commodore 64 out of storage, he was transported instantly back to his childhood, and that set him on the path to rediscover a lost passion and find a community he could call h...
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Episode 6: The Manhole from 2016-05-27T17:00
How brothers Rand and Robyn Miller built worlds from a manhole. This is the story of the beginning of Cyan, the company that went on to develop Myst — the all-time top-selling adventure game and on...
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Episode 5: 5 - Where the City (Simulation) Stops from 2016-04-13T03:00
I love SimCity. It's a wonderful simulation of the urban machinery around us, and a playground for messing with our cities. But it turns out the original game, at least, doesn't actually wo...
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Episode 4: Fernando Pessoa from 2016-03-03T11:00
On Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa and the playful freedom of creating as someone else — someone distinct, and unique, but non-existent. (Pessoa wrote under hundreds of names, all of which belong...
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Episode 3: Avatars in Need from 2016-02-01T14:00
Sometimes we don't realise that we need saving. Sometimes it's fun to pretend we do. For one woman, pretending made all the difference. This is the story of how one middle-aged woman relear...
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Episode 2: Mercy from 2015-12-23T16:00
[Audio levels should be fixed now. Sorry about that.] A devoted wrestling fan hacks and modifies an old Nintendo 64 game called WWF No Mercy to help deal with the pain of his shattered dream, and...
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Episode 1: Playful Pedagogical Primers from 2015-10-01T16:00
For the first episode of Ludiphilia I've gathered two stories about learning by playing systems-driven games. One is about the educational value of Minecraft, and the other is about a guy who s...
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