Learned from Gaming Podcast

This episode covers:

The developmental moments in our lives and what a young child can learn from gaming, as well as how the games we play as we grow older inform our gaming vocabulary. The question of how young is too young to play games, followed by a discussion of 13 Reasons Why (Spoilers), as well as why Final Fantasy 4 was so significant to Chase, Stu is not a fan of Sesame Street, and we all need to remember that for some people the little things matter.

Final Fantasy 2/4 for SNES

Warframe for the PC and other Platforms

The Lost Vikings for Multiple Platforms, but PC, SNES in particular

Final Fantasy VII for PS

Salt and Sanctuary for PC

Dreanought for PC

Master Blaster Zero for 3DS and Switch

Etrian Odyssey 2 for DS

Saiyan Warriors: Dream Squad for Mobile

SMITE (again) for PC

Items discussed in What we learned this week:

Summer Games Done Quick:

https://gamesdonequick.com/

When childern learn to play, an article about a child and learning from video games: My Five Year Old Learned More from playing video games than from watching sesame street

We discuss Netflix and 13 Reasons Why and try to remember being a teenager.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSZyEFldLkE

Warframe goes Open World with Plains of Eidolon Expansion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov6f_6VRwBY

Shout Outs!

Extra Credits discusses Experiencing Trauma as explored in Injustice 2:

Check out Dmitry Jbanov! He did all the music for our show and is awesome.

Find him on Twitter @disyman or buy something from him at Fivver.com

https://www.fiverr.com/mentalcacao

Episode 004 We are not Professionals

This episode covers:

What may or may not be going on in the classroom right now in terms of gamification.

Romanticising World War Two and how games can help motivate us to learn about the past.

World of Tanks for the PC

Dungeon Master 2 for the PC

Detroit for contemporary platforms

Starcraft Remastered for PC

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation for the PC

Bolt Action a miniatures game for table top play

Oxygen Not Included for the PC

Mordhiem for the PC

Items discussed in What we Learned this Week:

The discussion of what gamification in the class room looks like in 2017. We are no professionally involved in education and want to know what's out there right now. Feel free to contact us a [email protected] with any information you would like to provide on this.

Robots need love too in Detroit as we discuss the treatment of a game that has been seen at E3 a few times:

Shout Outs:

World of Tanks creator:

Bolt Action from Warlord Games:

https://us-store.warlordgames.com/collections/bolt-action

The Nintendo 3DS

http://www.nintendo.com/3ds

This episode covers:

Dark-Age a Miniature Skrimish Game for Table Top Play

Street Fighter V for all contemporary platforms

Warcraft Orcs and Humans for PC

AI War for PC

Mario Maker for 3DS and Wii U

Items discussed in What we Learned this Week:

Talking Dark Age the game and it's facebook community

http://dark-age.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/183757445321780/

Core-A Gaming, Skill Gap and simplifying games that already have established audiences:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSgA_nK_w3A

Cultural representation of characters in the Street Fighter franchise and how it plays so much like a silly cartoon with some confounding stereotypes but also orignal concepts for characters.

For those interested in progress on AI War 2:

What came up in Games we've been playing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwI0u9L4R8U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhz9OXy86a0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBtXyv0Q1Eg

Shout Outs:

Northgard for PC:

Ultra Street Fighter 2 for the Switch:

http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/ultra-street-fighter-2-the-final-challengers-switch

CMON's Zombicide: Green Horde Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmon/zombicide-green-horde

CMON's Dark-Age

http://dark-age.com/the-game/getting-started/

This episode was a test and it wears that on it's poor audio sleeve. You can hear heavy breathing because Chase had his microphone gain turned way up, you can hear him fidgetting all the time and there is a pretty harsh echo going on too. There are stalls where people get hung up on the show notes and reading off the page. Also weird swears at the beginning and even weirder swears at the end (thanks Stu). There is a general lack of preparedness as unexpected things come up and thoughts get derailed or lost in the mix.  A messing first attempt but one that taught us alot about what we want out of our own podcast.  Give it a listen if you are interested and tell us if you feel we've made any improvements.

This Episode Covers:

Sid Meier's Colonization for the PC

The names of books discussed in this episode are the following:

James Paul Gee: What Video Games have to Teach us about Learning and Literacy originally published in 2003, with a reprint from 2014. Chase is reading the revised edition.

Discussion on Video Games a Olympic Sports was blown out of proportion, but the original article is here. Asia as a continenet is taking gaming seriously and including it in international competition helps legitimize this practice:

Twin Perfect Video from Youtube on Legend of Zelda: Why you're WRONG about The Legend of Zelda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ySSq2d5mKE&t=668s

Shout Out Items

White Box Kickstarter:

SNES/Super Famicom Visual Compendium:

This episode covers:

Serious Sam Series on any platforms it's on

EVE Online for the PC

That Dragon, Cancer (Follow up)

Items discussed in What we Learned this Week:

Starcraft is Free:

http://kotaku.com/you-can-now-get-starcraft-for-free-1794432700

Gaming History 101 and Gaming History X Shows on That Dragon, Cancer:

https://gaminghistory101.com/2017/05/22/ghx-ep-9-tropic-thunder/

https://gaminghistory101.com/2017/05/23/ghx-ep-9-addendum-that-dragon-cancer/

Extra Credits and the importance of Gaming Literacy

https://youtu.be/OXjJu8eauHo

Shout Outs:

Robert Ring and Classic Gaming Podcast:

http://classicgamingpodcast.com/

(NOTE: this episode makes reference to an ALPHA episode, which is our test episode (E000).  Episode 000, the ALPHA was just a test and is a very rough episode.  For learning purposes it will be published with everything out, but at a later date)

Our mission statement

Street Fighter 2 on the SNES

Sid Meier's Pirates on the PC

That Dragon, Cancer

Items discussed in what we learned this week:

Steam Store Changes

Book Name and Author Correction:

What Video Games Have to Teach us about Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee

Video Games and Learning: Teaching and Participatory Culture in the Digital Age by Kurt Squire

For more information on Axe of the Blood God go to USGamer.net

Shout Outs:

Gaming History 101:

https://gaminghistory101.com/

Axe of the Blood God Podcast:

http://bloodgodpod.libsyn.com/