Brainy Gamer Podcast

This edition of the Brainy Gamer Podcast focuses on games that can make a difference. It features interviews with two people in the vanguard of innovative game design for social change: Suzanne Seggerman, president and co-founder of Games for Change; and Mary Flanagan, founder of the Tiltfactor Lab and Values at Play initiative. We discuss a wide range of topics, and we gear up for the G4C Festival in New York City later this month.

Volume 1 of the Brainy Gamer Podcast post-GDC '09 edition. Join me and my guests as we discuss what we learned at this year's Game Developer's Conference.
Segment 1: N'Gai Croal , game design consultant at newly-formed Hit Detection and former games and technology journalist at Newsweek Magazine; and Manveer Heir , designer at Raven Software and author of Design Rampage .
Segment 2: Corvus Elrod of Man Bytes Blog ; and Chris Dahlen of Save the Robot.

Volume 2 of the Brainy Gamer Podcast post-GDC '09 edition. Join me and my guests as we discuss what we learned at this year's Game Developer's Conference.
Segment 1: Leigh Alexander , news director at Gamasutra and author of Sexy Videogameland ; Nels Anderson , gameplay programmer at Hothead Games and author of Above 49 ; and David Carlton of Malvasia Bianca .
Segment 2: Ben Fritz of The Cut Scene ; Wes Erdelack (aka Iroquois Pliskin) of Versus Clu Clu Land ; and Duncan Fyfe of Hit Self-Destruct .

This edition of the Brainy Gamer Podcast features an interview with Kellee Santiago and Jenova Chen, co-founders of thatgamecompany and creators of Flower. We discuss a variety of topics, including TGC's design philosophy, the road from Cloud to Flower, starting a game company from scratch, the liberating nature of limitations...and, of course Flower.

Also, a fond farewell to N'Gai Croal, and gearing up for GDC...all in this episode of the Brainy Gamer Podcast!

This episode is big on story and small on spoilers! Downloadable content as betrayal; the virtues of peace, love, and green lipstick; the reviewer as critic; and why one player's narrative may be another player's imposition...all in this episode of the Brainy Gamer Podcast!

Volume 1 of the Brainy Gamer Podcast Holiday edition features two segments:
Segment 1: Leigh Alexander from Sexy Videogameland; Kirk Battle (aka L.B. Jeffries) from Banana Pepper Martinis; Mike Schiller from PopMatters; and Roger Travis from the Video Games and Human Values Initiative.
Segment 2: Daniel Purvis from Graffiti Gamer; Ben Abraham from SLRC; Trevor Dodge from Male Hipster Leering and the First Wall Rebate Podcast; and David Carlton from Malvasia Bianca.

Volume 2 of the Brainy Gamer Podcast Holiday edition features two segments:
Segment 1: Corvus Elrod from Man Bytes Blog; Mitch Krpata from Insult Swordfighting; Dan Bruno from Cruise Elroy; and Spencer Greenwood from Noble Carrots.
Segment 2: Chris Dahlen from Save the Robot; Sparky Clarkson from Discount Thoughts; and Matthew Gallant from The Quixotic Engineer

Volume 3 of the Brainy Gamer Podcast Holiday edition features Steve Gaynor of the Fullbright blog and 2K Marin; Wes Erdelack (aka Iroquois Pliskin) of Versus Clu Clu Land; and Tom Kim of Gamasutra Radio.
Finally, in the closing segment I reveal my favorite game of 2008 while also shamelessly gaming the system.

This edition of the Brainy Gamer Podcast features Leigh Alexander and Mitch Krpata in the Gamers Confab where we discuss our games of the month and the current state of the survival horror genre. We also chat about the game review grind; remind ourselves that games cost money; and remove the 4th-wall in a horrifyingly authentic podcast recording surprise in which no harm comes to Leigh whatsoever!
All this, and a plea for slowing down, in this edition of the Brainy Gamer Podcast.

This episode of the Brainy Gamer Podcast features the debut of the Gamers Confab. My guests this month:

Brinstar - Acid for Blood
Matthew Gallant - The Quixotic Engineer
Manveer Heir - Design Rampage

We discuss our games of the month; big promises from big games; why men don't play SingStar; and much more - all in this edition of the Brainy Gamer Podcast!