Play is the thing

Chris Ferguson recommended the Atari 2600 console.

Sam Illingworth recommended Betrayal at House on the Hill 

Pete Etchells recommeded Untitled Goose Game

Sam Wake recommended Cain's Jawbone

Nic Whitton recommended the Librarian's Almanaq

Holly Gramazio recommended Board games to create and play

I recommended a few things: The floor is lava

Board games in 100 moves

Quest for El Dorado

Ticket to Ride London

Aiyana's brilliant article for Scientific American is here

 

Here blog, all of which is 100% worth reading, is here

Margaret talked about a few games

Subnautica

My time at Portia

She used the following toys in her research

Toca Boca tea party

Osmo

Code-a-pillar

Maggi's research interests

https://www.sldo.ac.uk/

https://dart.ed.ac.uk/research/autism-tech-play/

She's on @_mlaurie

Paul Wake is a big part of the Manchester games studies network: https://www.manchestergamestudies.org/

His current kickstarter is at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1010climateaction/carbon-city-zero

If you're interested in the zones of play by Scott Rogers: https://mrbossdesign.blogspot.com/2019/07/

I've listed the games we talked about here: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/262898/games-i-talked-paul-wake-about-play-thing

If you want to catch up with Holly's writing, here's a taster:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/03/11/players-react-to-video-games-in-unexpected-ways-and-scary-edutainment-games-prove-it/   https://wireframe.raspberrypi.org/features/there's-no-such-thing-as-an-apolitical-game   https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/games/2019/08/moral-panic-over-fortnite-and-purpose-play The book she referenced was indeed called Historia Ludens and can be found here: https://www.routledge.com/Historia-Ludens-The-Playing-Historian-1st-Edition/von-Lunen-Lewis-Litherland-Cullum/p/book/9780367363864   She's @nielsen_holly on Twitter.

Minkette (@mink_ette on twitter) is a designer of games of all sorts, as well as a speaker and podcaster.

Her escape room site is here

I strongly recommend her talks which can be found here

And her podcasts are here

Mink mentions this book: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Donald-A-Norman/The-Design-of-Everyday-Things/15109431

Punch drunk theatre is here

The game Max was going on about was Lara Croft Temple of Osiris. It's quite good.

Grant Howitt does single side A4 RPGs here

The ERIC conference (http://ericuk.org/) where Mink is speaking

Escape room reviews:UK:  http://exitgames.co.uk/. https://thelogicescapesme.com/

US: https://escapegameaddicts.wordpress.com/ 

 

 

James' book, Board Games in 100 moves, is out on the 5th September: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Board-Games-in-100-Moves-by-Ian-Livingstone-author-James-Wallis-author/9781465485755

James can be found on twitter @jameswallis

And his consultancy Spaaace can be accessed via his website: http://www.jameswallis.com/

 

Holly's main website is here: http://www.hollygramazio.net/

She talked about quite a few things.

candy box:https://candybox2.github.io/

dicey dungeons: https://store.steampowered.com/app/861540/Dicey_Dungeons/

Now Play This: https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/now-play-this-2019

How to be a blackbird: http://severalbees.com/blackbird/how-to-be-a-blackbird.html

Duncan Speakman's sherlockian tour: http://www.ahollowbody.com/

 

Where to start? Max starts off comparing Jason to a burlesque dancer, then Jason sings to illustrate the concept of trauma. 

They talk about a ton of games they love and end up debating whether flow is a self-centred phenomenon!

Who is Jason, you may ask... Listen to find out.

(or go to @engn_podcast on twitter)

So we talked about a lot of things:

Psychology: 

Michael White and narrative therapy: https://dulwichcentre.com.au/michael-white-archive/

Flow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

Games: 

Forbidden Island: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/65244/forbidden-island

Star realms: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/147020/star-realms

Mice and Mystics: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/124708/mice-and-mystics

Spirit Island: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/162886/spirit-island

Legend of the five rings RPG: https://rpggeek.com/rpgfamily/2437/legend-five-rings

Root: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/237182/root

Max is joined by the very brilliant Nic Whitton. She is @nicwhitton on Twitter.

The playful learning conference is here 

Liz Hargrave designed Wingspan and has Tussie Mussie coming soon. For some reason Max forgot to say the name of the first game. 

Nic mentioned the subscription service for escape rooms Escape the crate at the beginning.