Welcome to Meaningful Play, a podcast where we talk about video games, new or old, light or serious, controversial or inspiring, and everything in between with an academic flair. Meaningful Play Podcast is hosted by Jordana Elliott, Sian Tomkinson, and Heather Blakey, who are all games studies scholars based in Perth, Western Australia.
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Welcome to Meaningful Play, a podcast where we talk about video games, new or old, light or serious, controversial or inspiring, and everything in between with an academic flair. Meaningful Play Podcast is hosted by Jordana Elliott, Sian Tomkinson, and Heather Blakey, who are all games studies scholars based in Perth, Western Australia.
Happy new year! In this episode Sian and Heather talk about failure in video games. Failure has been an aspect of gameplay that has fascinated many scholars studying video games. We walk through the theories of several scholars, including Jesper Juul, Jane McGonigal, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ronald Tocci, Christopher Paul, Bonnie Ruberg, and Jack Halberstam, reflecting...Continue reading »
Meaningful Play Podcast
Welcome to Meaningful Play, a podcast where we talk about video games, new or old, light or serious, controversial or inspiring, and everything in between with an academic flair. Meaningful Play Podcast is hosted by Jordana Elliott, Sian Tomkinson, and Heather Blakey, who are all games studies scholars based in Perth, Western Australia.
