Ludiphilia

A story-driven podcast by @MossRC about how and why we play.

[Ludiphilia @ludiphilia]

Since I can't seem to figure out a way to publish new episodes with any sort of regularity, I've changed my Patreon funding from "per month" to "per episode." My apologies, again, to backers past and present for letting you down. https://t.co/PXnAFRlXxJ

[Richard Moss @MossRC]

Just got reminded of how Myst creative director Robyn Miller is terribly underappreciated as a legend of the games industry. So if you haven't seen it, go watch him talk to me about his wonderful first game, The Manhole, as we play it together. https://t.co/4FW3iizuFs

[Ludiphilia @ludiphilia]

New episodes, meanwhile, look to be a ways off. I have lots of ideas but between freelancing, trying to turn @LifeandTimesVG into a proper income stream, and prep for my upcoming wedding, there's very little time spare for production. I'd guess around Christmas for the next one.

[Ludiphilia @ludiphilia]

Website will be down for a little while, as I broke some stuff during a DNS switch. Also, I'm now hosting the podcast through Anchor. So my temporary home is at https://t.co/CB9YDfYcD6. Website will be redirected there soon, then hosted separately once it's back online.

[Ludiphilia @ludiphilia]

@Magitek85 Alex! Great to hear from you. Been a very long time since I last saw you on here. Hope life's been treating you well. And thank you for the kind words. Let me know if you have any suggestions for future episodes. (Also, you might enjoy my games history show @lifeandtimesVG.)

[Ludiphilia @ludiphilia]

New episode - The Toys That Made Us. Learn about the toy history doco's backstory, director Brian Volk-Weiss' passion for toys, and his insights into the toy industry. https://t.co/m6KziP1jfZ

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Singapore at Play - a podcast episode plus photos
https://t.co/jF2Bc46njh

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New logo, designed by my wonderful fiancée.

[Richard Moss @MossRC]

@ludiphilia This was the article — a Rolling Stone piece on the emergence (and then-possible disappearance) of the cottage industry of people building impossibly-detailed worlds, for money, inside Minecraft. https://t.co/iqEa1d5aay

[Richard Moss @MossRC]

I'm bringing @ludiphilia back into action, starting with this thing I pulled out of the unused material from an old interview/article about pro Minecraft building. https://t.co/20DhMvAnRz

[Richard Moss @MossRC]

A reminder: I'm crowdfunding a book about the history of the shareware games scene — looking into the devs, the games, and the biz and exploring what it was like to be indie in the late-80s and the 1990s. https://t.co/FYMRhY607J

[Richard Moss @MossRC]

ICYMI, this weekend my narrative+interview podcast about how and why we play returned from hiatus with an episode about playful mapping. Details here: https://t.co/Jh4aAgpmEG

[Ludiphilia @ludiphilia]

Episode 12 - Playful Mapping. On the surprisingly-deep connection between play and cartography, with geographer Chris Perkins. https://t.co/eebaf3bkKg

[Richard Moss @MossRC]

New @ludiphilia episode dropping this weekend. Just need to do one complete mastering pass to check levels and everything.

[Ludiphilia @ludiphilia]

July update https://t.co/hGLWJaYNxP

[Richard Moss @MossRC]

I'll be doing a livestream on https://t.co/5Hetp9Frwx with Robyn Miller (@tinselman) on June 27 at 6pm Pacific Time.

We'll be celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Manhole's release by playing and talking about the game and the early days of Cyan..

[Ludiphilia @ludiphilia]

An update. (Short version: new episode in July, then more episodes every couple of months; sorry about the prolonged silence.) https://t.co/dEAJa3s0vk

[Ludiphilia @ludiphilia]

@bigyahu @johnheymann @oneworldplayprj Agreed! John, I've just sent you an email.

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Also fixed up the audio to the original episode 1, if you want to hear it in context with the other educational play talk. https://t.co/hpSmVnpqKJ

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One of my favourite apps, Earth Primer, a science book you play with, is now on Mac (https://t.co/evw06KgBbq), so in celebration I cleaned up my old podcast segment with its creator: https://t.co/UQw9CMXnpa