About this episode
The Mappers are joined in this January episode by one of the few games writers they’re genuinely intimidated by, and they go on a heady adventure into lands untold. How does anyone understand the landscape of a culture whose history keeps disappearing? What does it mean to want to work in a field and criticize works when every aspect of that production is increasingly devalued in both money and regard? What does it mean to explore the murky issues of consent in games? And how long can you exist on a ghostly train ride before it becomes a lens through which you view your own predispositions? All these questions and more are yours inside when Em and Jackson try their best to keep up with Lana Polansky in this heady, intense, appropriately metaphorical train wreck of an episode. Please enjoy! You can get our podcast on iTunes , on Stitcher , or you can download it directly by clicking here . Our guest this month is Lana Polansky, who you can find at Sufficiently Human and on Patreon and Twitter . This Month’s Game Club Game : offɭine Next Month’s Game Club Game : Yakuza 3 Music In This Episode Blown Away by Kevin McLeod the soundscape of offɭine by NAWKSH Snowflakes by Shoji Meguro Things (All Of Them, Until We Can’t Link Anymore) Discussed in This Episode Arcade Review Five out of Ten ZEAL Cahiers du cinéma Critical Distance Good Games Writing @OldGamesWriting Zoya Street Reading EGM Celia Pearce Tracy Fullerton Jacquelyn Ford Morie A Game of One’s Own Computers as Theatre by Brenda Laurel Frances Hodgson Burnett Hélène Cixous Simone de Beauvoir Charlotte Perkins Gilman Virginia Woolf Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin Leigh Alexander “You Can Sleep Here All Night”: Video Games and Labor by Ian Williams Forska TJ Thomas Austin C Howe Espen Aarseth Roland Barthes Susan Sontag Gita Jackson Mike Joffe (Check out our prior episode featuring an interview with Mike !) Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal Videogames of the Oppressed by Gonzalo Frasca The Crew Review: Postcard America by Austin Walker Level 99 Capitalist by Stephen Beirne Gender Trouble by Judith Butler 80 Days Justice Points podcast .error404 Bayonetta and .error404: Two Concepts of Nudity by Katherine Cross Consensual Torture Simulator by Merritt Kopas Hurt Me Plenty by Robert Yang Flushed: A Toilet Gaming E-Zine Pol Clarissou Myst Zork Twine Las Meninas, Diego Velazquez Glitchhikers night tune Stars Even The Stars Andi Mcclure 2:22AM Beeswing Actual Sunlight (and Jackson’s old writing on that game ) There Are Monsters Under Your Bed Everyone’s Hot For Worf (Lana’s upcoming parody game)