Actual Play, Actual Work (w/ Emily Friedman)
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English - July 17, 2023 04:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBArts Leisure Games rpg roleplaying storytelling interview game design Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Emily C. Friedman is an associate professor of English at Auburn University and director of 18thconnect, a website dedicated to scholarship of the 18th century. Though an 18th-century literature scholar and critic by training, Emily is now one of the foremost chroniclers of the phenomenon we call actual play. She teaches games and actual play in the classroom and regularly writes about actual play on gaming website, Polygon. In fact, as of recording this, we're close to the one year anniversary of her first piece on Polygon, about New York by Night, a Vampire the Masquerade AP. She's also working on a book titled Improvised Worlds: Digital Storytelling Through Play. Also, here's her youtube channel, CriticalProf.
Show Notes:
00:46 - Emily's bio
02:28 - How did you start working on actual play?
09:22 - What is actual play anyway?
15:39 - The state of actual play today
23:07 - Examples of actual play that break the form
36:52 - Infectious Enthusiasm: The Quiet Year
38:42 - Tyranny of Numbers
40:07 - All Advice Is Advice For Myself
If you'd like a written transcript for this episode, you can find it here.