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I speak with Jupiter Hadley about the phenomenon of game jams and the world of indie games Game Jams How to get involved in making games Awesome places to find indie games, like itch.io How she has played more indie video games than anyone – but the Gu...

I speak with Kim Hansen and Kelly Wright, former game designers who have created a tech startup known as Gretta How games are slightly more fun than computational linguistics Their experience working on the Mass Effect series Working on educational gam...

I speak with Shanna Zwart, also known as the Twitch Streamer Shannanina We talk about her video game and music streaming career Shanna’s history with video games The personal connection that Shanna has about games and how they helped her through a diff...

I speak with Leslie – one of the current operators of Habitica – the app that turns your life into a game We talk about how Habitica has been helping people with everything from flossing to getting through med school How we wish that we would spend as ...

Tyler Renelle is the creator and co-founder of Habitica, an app that turns your everyday tasks and habits into a video game We talk about the road from an idea to the successful Kickstarter of Habitica Habitica is very complex,

+7 Talks with Travis Eriksen of the Gamer-founded charity, Child’s Play We talk about how Child’s Play was founded by gamers of Penny Arcade wanting to counter negative press with positive action How the most uninteresting game of all time is used to r...

Dr. Jamie Madigan spreads awareness of what psychology can tell us about video games. How psychology plays a role in designing video games. How a study about memory explains the “one . . . more . . . turn . . .

Zhenghua Yang tells how video games helped him through a truly frightening part of his life – and now he creates them to bring meaning to people. Z talks about his first video game created at the age of 10, and now, his studio: Serenity Forge.

In this BONUS episode, a gamer gets help from the community to deal with an unexpected phobia. Links The Reddit post that inspired this episode The Games Without Butterflies spreadsheet +++++++ Share this Episode: 1-click[...]