Not Just A Game

Catherine Flick and Tyr Fothergill
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The dynamic duo behind PAX East’s most popular talk about chickens ever brings you Not Just A Game! Dr. Catherine Flick, a gamer and video games and social impact researcher, and Dr. Tyr Fothergill, a paleopathologist and archaeogamer, talk about the video games they’ve been playing. Sometimes there are special guests!

Episodes

  1. 06/12/2020

    Episode 23: Quitting

    In which we discuss how, when, where, and why we might quit a game. It turns out we’ve both quit a lot of games for lots of different reasons! Tyr spins this into a beautiful archaeological metaphor, and we work through our site abandonment – whether planned, drifting away or through sudden flood. We talk … Continue reading "Episode 23: Quitting"

    47 min

  2. 11/10/2020

    Episode 22: Antiquarianism

    In which Tyr, an archaeologist, discusses the Antiquarians Guild in Elder Scrolls Online with Catherine, who is not an archaeologist. Also: Baldur’s Gate 3, a crying baby, Hades, and why crunch sucks. Also also: whether you can still enjoy a thing if you disagree with the creator of said thing. James Acaster on the British … Continue reading "Episode 22: Antiquarianism"

    1h 11m

  3. 17/08/2020

    Black Lives Matter

    Black Lives Matter. So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo Black Game Developers. Hire them. Buy their stuff. Never Alone. Games by Black creators: https://radmagpie.org/blog/2020/2/6/support-black-game-developers https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/02/26/games-developed-by-black-developers-you-should-look-out-for https://www.inverse.com/gaming/video-games-by-black-developers Behind the Police podcast

    56 min

  4. 21/07/2020

    Not Just A Game Episode 20: Travel!

    We’re back! No I can’t quite believe it either! Anyway, we are talking about travel in this episode. It’s very exciting. Also, I’ve had a baby (he’s now 1, and absolutely adorable), and Tyr has moved to another country! We talk about this a bit. We also talk about games that have travel in them, … Continue reading "Episode 20: Travel"

    57 min

  5. 16/02/2019

    Episode 19 Capital O Opinions

    In this episode, Tyr and Catherine have opinions. No, we have Opinions. Capital O Opinions. Some of them are probably unpopular. Some of them we would defend with our lives. (Maybe.) Bad words are said. Totally @ us. (@CatherineFlick and @FothergillTyr on Twitter!) We are also going to PAX East this year! Please come visit … Continue reading "Episode 19 Capital O Opinions"

    53 min

  6. 01/02/2019

    Episode 18: Obra Dinn

    We’re back! In this episode, Tyr and Catherine play The Return of the Obra Dinn, and talk about it! Spoilers: It’s a very good game. Like our stuff? Please support us on our Patreon!

  7. 27/11/2018

    Episode 17: It’s beginning to look a lot like Saturnalia!

    In this episode we talk holidays! Why do we have certain holidays in games, and not others? Why is Christmas in games not quite Christmas, but a weird pagan version of Christmas? Is it only because game devs want to annoy right wing American Christians? Where do all these  in-game traditions come from anyway? (It’s probably … Continue reading "Episode 17: It’s beginning to look a lot like Saturnalia!"

  8. 09/11/2018

    Episode 16: Let’s Talk about Pets!

    In this episode we talk about pets! Particularly Fortnite Pets, being both dragon experts and not Fortnite players at all. We may or may not sing silly on-topic songs. We discuss taking cute things into battle, gender issues of pets, domestic animals as food vs pets, particularly guinea pigs, and Fortnite and parenting despite not … Continue reading "Episode 16: Let’s Talk about Pets!"

  9. 26/10/2018

    Episode 15: Augmented Reality and social norms – with Andrew Adams

    In which Catherine and Tyr wrangle another fascinating victim special guest at ETHICOMP 2018, Prof. Andrew Adams, to talk about Pokémon Go and augmented reality games more generally. (Yes, another Pokémon Go one. I think we’re almost all out of material on Pokémon Go now.) We talk social norms about Pokémon Go in Japan vs. … Continue reading "Episode 15: Augmented Reality and social norms – with Andrew Adams"

  10. 13/10/2018

    Episode 14: Twinkle Ponies – with Erica Neely on Ethics of Lootboxes

    Hello! In this episode I have to apologise for the sound quality; we were recording at ETHICOMP 2018 in Sopot, Poland and the room was a bit more echoey than expected (and noisier) and apparently I didn’t point the microphone in quite the right direction. The sound does get better as the episode goes on. … Continue reading "Episode 14: Twinkle Ponies – with Erica Neely on Ethics of Lootboxes"

  • 10 Episodes

About

The dynamic duo behind PAX East’s most popular talk about chickens ever brings you Not Just A Game! Dr. Catherine Flick, a gamer and video games and social impact researcher, and Dr. Tyr Fothergill, a paleopathologist and archaeogamer, talk about the video games they’ve been playing. Sometimes there are special guests!

Information

  • Creator
    Catherine Flick and Tyr Fothergill
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2020
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    Not Just A Game