Spot Check 16: Gaming and Intimacy
by NICK MIZER Filed under: Anthropology, Games / gaming, Spot Check, Study of geek culture Tagged: anthropology, D&D, games, gaming, geek
View ArticleSpot Check 17: Strategies of the Quantum Ogre
by NICK MIZER Filed under: Anthropology, Games / gaming, Spot Check Tagged: anthropology, D&D, games, gaming, geek, tabletop
View ArticleBinding the Boundless – Spot Check 19
by NICK MIZER Filed under: Anthropology, Games / gaming, Spot Check Tagged: anthropology, games, gaming, geek, Spot Check, tabletop, video
View ArticleMe PC, You NPC: Spot Check 20
by NICK MIZER Filed under: Anthropology, Games / gaming, Spot Check Tagged: anthropology, games, gaming, geek, malinowski, methods, power, rpg, tabletop
View ArticleBlues Riffs and Session Pacing: Spot Check 22
by NICK MIZER In this episode of Spot Check I talk about how the Old School Renaissance in tabletop gaming has helped to reconstruct older assumptions about gaming, and how those assumptions change our...
View ArticleThe Life Well Played – Spot Check 23
by NICK MIZER Spot Check returns! In this episode I talk about the role of conventions in gaming culture, the role of play in gamers’ lives (and deaths), and how Gary Con fits in to that.Filed under:...
View ArticleThe Journey to Lake Geneva – Spot Check 24
by NICK MIZER In which I pronounce Jason Azze’s name correctly, worry about “first contact” with old school gamers, and describe my first encounter with Gary Con, which has become an important site for...
View ArticleColor or Song or Choice Diction – Spot Check 25
by NICK MIZER How does the overall environment of gaming influence our experience of imaginary worlds? In this Spot Check I think about my experiences gaming in Denton, TX, and how the colors, music,...
View Article(Sometimes) Never Split the Party
It’s one of the oldest and most common maxims in gaming, but why? Erving Goffman helps me understand why we (Sometimes) Never Split the Party. Have any good gaming stories about splitting the party? It...
View ArticleThe Shrine of the Cobbler – Spot Check 27
In which I talk about Gary Con, 330 Center Street, and explain a folktale to Rhialto the Marvelous. Ethan Gilsdorf’s piece on Center Street:...
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