Latest Love thy nerd Podcast Episodes
Episode 192 | Kirk Dennison of Rurik
Humans of Gaming Podcast - October 14, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsBoardgame designer Kirk Dennison joins us fresh out of knee surgery to open up to Drew and Chris about life as a father of 4 and the strained relations and expectations that can come with being a preacher's kid
Episode 191 | GenCon 2021
Humans of Gaming Podcast - September 30, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsDrew Dixon covers the floor at GenCon 2021 to speak with developers and designers from large publishing houses like Funko to independent designers on Kickstarter who tell us a little about their games, what they hope you get out of their games, and why they make them. Music in this e...
Episode 190 | Roberta Williams on being Foot Loose and Fancy Free
Humans of Gaming Podcast - September 16, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsRoberta Williams (Kings Quest, Mystery House, Phantasmagoria) joins Drew to talk about her and her husband Ken's entry into the video game industry. It involves taking Cobalt courses at local colleges, discovering games on Ken's remote work IBM 360 Mainframe computer such as Colossal Ca...
Episode 188 | Ryan Bowdre of true[X] on Earning the Right to Speak
Humans of Gaming Podcast - September 02, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsRyan Bowdre is a pretty nice guy. An L.A. native and avid Super Smash Bros. player, Ryan started with Disney Interactive as a QA tester before joining the team at Blizzard as a test analyst. Though this time at Blizzard, and now true[X], Ryan was active in his faith but believed that you had to ...
Episode 189 | Ryan Bowdre of true[X] on Earning the Right to Speak
Humans of Gaming Podcast - September 02, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsRyan Bowdre is a pretty nice guy. An L.A. native and avid Super Smash Bros. player, Ryan started with Disney Interactive as a QA tester before joining the team at Blizzard as a test analyst. Though this time at Blizzard, and now true[X], Ryan was active in his faith but believed that yo...
Episode 188 | Andy Robertson of "Taming Gaming"
Humans of Gaming Podcast - August 19, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsAndy Robertson, the author of "Taming Gaming", describes himself as a "good dad." Originally a technical writer for tax software, Andy took a leap to write for video games and has done so for 15 years while curating an impressive database of video games at the Family Video Game Database...
Episode 187 | Mondo Davis of "Color Field" and "Mansplaining"
Humans of Gaming Podcast - August 05, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMansplaining and Color Field designer Mondo Davis joins us on Humans of Gaming to kick off the Fall 2021 season. A St. Louis, MO native Mondo now lives in Atlanta with his family where he is currently working on being a father and board game designer who has 4 games under contract as of...
Episode 186 | Gabe Barrett of Board Game Design Lab on Cam Newton, Board Games, and International Ministries
Humans of Gaming Podcast - May 27, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsGabe Barrett has some stories to tell. Before he founded the Board Game Design Lab podcast, he played college football and didn't think much of Cam Newton on his first day. He also lives in Honduras most of the year when he isn't in Atlanta and doing missions work in both. His family wa...
Episode 185 | Andrew Lowen of "Deliverance" on Spirituality, UFC Fighting, and Christian Games
Humans of Gaming Podcast - May 13, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsAndrew Lowen of the bord game Deliverance is something of a Renaissance Man. Having dabbled in sales, UFC fighting, wrestling, and now game design he is aiming to provide a game that speaks the truth of the Gospel while also knowing what makes a game fun.
Episode 184 | Dan Kazmaier of Steeped Games on Chai Tea, Adoption, and Board Games
Humans of Gaming Podcast - April 29, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsDan Kazmaier, Creative Director at Steeped Games is one of those rare individuals who has a heart matched only in size by his Midas touch as Chris puts it. A Semi-professional Chess player in Calgary, Dan became involved in games after a round of Uno with refugees taught him the univers...
Episode 183 | Sen-Foong Lim of "Kingdom Rush" on Parents, Psychology, and Professorship
Humans of Gaming Podcast - April 15, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsSen-Foong Lim of "Junk Art" and "Kingdom Rush: Rift in Time", joins Drew and Chris for a conversation that covers nearly everything. Sen, who is a provincial martial artist, DJ, professor, parent, therapist, and occasionally a board game designer talks about the tension between parents ...
Episode 182 | Kate Kadowaki on "TV Eye", KSM, and Being Another Human
Humans of Gaming Podcast - April 01, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsKate Kadowaki, one of the founders of Love Thy Nerd was the drummer for the former Disney pop/rock group "KSM" (and no, even she doesn't know what it stands for). Kate talks to Drew and Chris about the path that led her out of the church and into the band. The conversation covers the ef...
Episode 181 | Chris Skaggs of Soma Games on Game Studio Culture
Humans of Gaming Podcast - March 18, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsChris Skaggs of Soma games joins Drew and Chris to talk about his unintended path to game development, conversion to Christianity, and the culture of the longest surviving "Christian" game studio.
Episode 180 | Liberty Kifer of "Crystallo"
Humans of Gaming Podcast - March 04, 2021 09:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsLiberty Kifer is a pro photographer, mother of 4 girls, a black bear tamer, and an amazing board game designer. Crystallo has a unique origin story with close ties to her family which we wholeheartedly recommend everyone pick up at your local Barnes & Noble! We talk about her Norwegian ...
Episodes 179 | Yannic Lejac Part 2
Humans of Gaming Podcast - February 18, 2021 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsYannic Lejac finishes his conversation with Drew and Chris about his time at Blizzard and his transition from game journalism and narrative design to social work.
Episode 178 | Yannick LeJacq on Health Insurance, Games Journalism, and Religion Part 1
Humans of Gaming Podcast - February 04, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsYannick LeJacq joins Drew and Chris for the inaugural 2021 season of Humans of Gaming! Reminiscing about their days as writers for Kill Screen, Drew and Yannick talk about the absurdity of the US health care system with its "gamification" of absurd roadblocks that benefit everyone but t...
Episode 177 | April-Lyn Caouette on Food Trips and Friendships
Humans of Gaming Podcast - May 06, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsCheif Resource Nerd April-Lyn Caouette joins Drew and Chris to give some insight into the many facets of Love Thy Nerd's mission to bring hope and love to the varied "nerd" cultures.
Episode 176 | Elizabeth Hargrave of Wingspan
Humans of Gaming Podcast - April 08, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsElizabeth Hargrave joins Drew and Chris to talk about game Wingspan as well as her personal story. She is the daughter of a biochemist father and lawyer mother and is herself an avid bird watcher. Growing up as a Unitarian Universalist in southern Illinois and then Gainseville, FL she h...
Episode 175 | Mxiety on the Tangled State of Mental Health Discussion
Humans of Gaming Podcast - April 01, 2020 04:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsDrew and Chris host author and streamer Maria "Mxiety" Shanley as part of our series celebrating women in the game industry. M, as she likes to be called, tells an amazing story of her youth: being kidnapped by her mother to Russia, public panic attacks that ended one career and helped ...
Humans of Gaming 175 | Mxiety on the Tangled State of Mental Health Discussion
Humans of Gaming Podcast - April 01, 2020 04:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsDrew and Chris host author and streamer Maria "Mxiety" Shanley as part of our series celebrating women in the game industry. M, as she likes to be called, tells an amazing story of her youth: being kidnapped by her mother to Russia, public panic attacks that ended one career and helped push her ...
Episode 174 | Gamer Doc on Health and Perseverance
Humans of Gaming Podcast - March 25, 2020 13:11 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsContinuing our series on celebrating women in gaming, Drew Dixon hosts "Gamer Doc", a medical doctor, a gamer, and someone who has a passion for improving the quality of life for gamers. Using her Twitch channel she hosts sessions recommending the best PC setups, console setups, and gen...
Episode 173 | Astrid Refstrup on Parenting and Crunch Culture
Humans of Gaming Podcast - March 18, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsAstrid Refstrup, is the Co-Founder of Triple Topping, the Welcome To Elk co-writer & Director, and the producer of Ynglet. Drew sits down with Astrid to talk about Welcome to Elk and Ynglet along with the challenges of running a small studio and overcoming the almost habitual desire to ...
Episode 172 | PAX East 2020 Interviews
Humans of Gaming Podcast - March 04, 2020 05:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsThis week we are taking a quick break from our 10 episode series featuring women in different roles in the gaming industry as Drew was at PAX East in Boston checking out some of the amazing projects currently in development. In this episode, Drew interviews a diverse group of developers...
Episode 171 | Amy Green of Numinous Games
Humans of Gaming Podcast - February 26, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsHumans of Gaming returns for the first season of 2020 as we focus on the women in the video and board game industry. Amy Green of Numinous games joins Drew and Chris to talk about their new project with Cyan (MYST, RIVEN) in VR titled Area Man Lives. Originally titled Untethered, the pr...
Episode 170 | Josiah Martindale on Being Liberally Minded
Humans of Gaming Podcast - November 27, 2019 14:49 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsJosiah Martindale describes himself as being "liberally minded." The writer of a Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" inspired D&D campaign currently on Kickstarter, Josiah is not talking politics as much as traditionalism vs new chaos. Drew and Chris talk to him about his love of Kansa...
Episode 169 | Ricardo Bare of Arkane Studios on Contemplative Faith
Humans of Gaming Podcast - November 20, 2019 05:04 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsRicardo Bare of Arkane Studios joins Drew and Chris to talk a little bit about his past with Ion Storm (Deus Ex) and how it led him to Arkane Studios where he worked on the Dishonored series and was the lead designer for Prey. In his formative years, the writings of C.S. Lewis served as...
Episode 168 | Rob Daviau of Hasbro Games
Humans of Gaming Podcast - November 13, 2019 09:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsIn this episode of Humans of Gaming, Drew Dixon and Chris Gwaltney host board game designer Rob Daviau to talk about his decade with Hasbro Games working on titles such as Pandemic Legacy, Trivial Pursuit, and Risk Legacy to name a few. Rob has an interesting history in both education a...
Episode 167 | Paul Darvasi on Video Games in Classrooms and Hopeful Agnosticism
Humans of Gaming Podcast - September 25, 2019 15:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsPaul Darvasi, educator and researcher with a Masters in Educational Technology, joins Drew to talk about his efforts to better research and document the effect that video games have on the mind of those who consume them. His thesis work on using GTA V in the classroom is one of the topi...
Episode 166 | Alexis Dean-Jones on Breaking the Ice and Religious OCD
Humans of Gaming Podcast - September 19, 2019 02:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsAlexis has been working in animation for over 10 years including stints with Slap Happy Cartoons, the current producers of Tom & Jerry. She currently is working on a game about trying to be somebody, Chicory: A Colorful Tale. The conversation turns to Alexis' history in Brisbane, Austra...
Episode 165 | Pat and Kat Lysaght of Chara Games
Humans of Gaming Podcast - September 11, 2019 14:03 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsPat and Kat Lysagt of Chara us again during their "reboot" year. Hurricane Michael, 2 moves, and 4 kids find one of our favorite designer families at a point where the best laid plans have been put to the side in the interest of family. Drew and Chris talk to Pat and Kat about the tim...
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