The Greatest Game: A Video Games and Philosophy Podcast

In the latest episode of The Greatest Game, host Chase Williams is joined by his original co-host, Max Kelleher, to discuss video games and aesthetics, what makes video games unique, representation capabilities of game software, and the concept of authorship and artworks.

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Hosted by InnoGames’ Chase Williams, The Greatest Game is an OK Beast podcast mini-series dedicated to the discussion of philosophy, aesthetics, and art theory – through the lens of video games. Support us monthly at Patreon.com/OKBeast.

In the latest episode of The Greatest Game, host Chase Williams is joined by artist Mark Ferrari (Thimbleweed Park, The Secret of Monkey Island) to discuss pixel art as an art movement. The pair discuss pixel art’s likeness to poetry and its parallels to impressionism, the movement’s separation from a gaming context, whether or not pixel art has an endpoint due to its narrower constraints, and a lot more.

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Hosted by InnoGames’ Chase Williams, The Greatest Game is an OK Beast podcast mini-series dedicated to the discussion of philosophy, aesthetics, and art theory – through the lens of video games. Support us monthly at Patreon.com/OKBeast.

In the latest episode of The Greatest Game, host Chase Williams is joined by Jedrzej Czarnota, who has a PhD in Economics, to analyze video game economies in games like World of Warcraft or EVE Online, discuss the tension between play and the desire to provide utility to other players in a video game environment, and the results of ethnographic analyses of online video game spaces.

Talk to us on Twitter: Chase, OK Beast

Hosted by InnoGames’ Chase Williams, The Greatest Game is an OK Beast podcast mini-series dedicated to the discussion of philosophy, aesthetics, and art theory – through the lens of video games. Support us monthly at Patreon.com/OKBeast.

In the Season 3 premiere of The Greatest Game, Chase Williams is joined by InnoGames’ Mosche Wallach to discuss how cognitive science applies to gaming, how universities approach the academic investigation of video games as a distinct media, and the nature of aesthetics and artwork.

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Hosted by InnoGames’ Chase Williams, The Greatest Game is an OK Beast podcast mini-series dedicated to the discussion of philosophy, aesthetics, and art theory – through the lens of video games. Support us monthly at Patreon.com/OKBeast.

In the Season 2 finale of The Greatest Game, Chase is once again joined by NASA’s Max Kelleher to explain how experiencing artworks is similar to experiencing nature, that the experience of artworks is temporal,  and that playing video games is performative, and reference Papers Please in the process.

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Hosted by Sony San Diego’s Chase Williams & NASA’s Max Kelleher, The Greatest Game is an OK Beast podcast mini-series dedicated to the discussion of philosophy, aesthetics, and art theory – through the lens of video games. Support us monthly at Patreon.com/OKBeast.

Max Kelleher returns to help Chase work through the primary insight gained from studying aesthetics in 2018. They begin by refining their definitions of “art” and provide a loose framework for identifying “artworks”, and reference Undertale in the process.

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Hosted by Sony San Diego’s Chase Williams & NASA’s Max Kelleher, The Greatest Game is an OK Beast podcast mini-series dedicated to the discussion of philosophy, aesthetics, and art theory – through the lens of video games. Support us monthly at Patreon.com/OKBeast.

In the return of The Greatest Game, Chase talks with published author Jono Pech about narrative structure and how story telling can be understood as a playful activity. The duo talk specifically about games such as Journey, Celeste, The Last of Us, and Inside. They seek to apply the criteria for good play outlined in previous episodes to deterministic media such as books, movies, and comics.

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Hosted by Sony San Diego’s Chase Williams & NASA’s Max Kelleher, The Greatest Game is an OK Beast podcast mini-series dedicated to the discussion of philosophy, aesthetics, and art theory – through the lens of video games. Support us monthly at Patreon.com/OKBeast.

Hosted by Sony San Diego’s Chase Williams & NASA’s Max Kelleher, The Greatest Game is an OK Beast podcast mini-series dedicated to the discussion of philosophy, aesthetics, and art theory – through the lens of video games.

For its final episode, The Greatest Game crew answers a few lingering questions regarding the hosts’ assertions regarding play, art, and video games. Chase and Max also take time to explain how play helps in the creation of culture and traditions within our everyday life.

Hosted by Sony San Diego’s Chase Williams & NASA’s Max Kelleher, The Greatest Game is an OK Beast podcast mini-series dedicated to the discussion of philosophy, aesthetics, and art theory – through the lens of video games.

This week, The Greatest Game crew discusses the aesthetic experience, nature of art, what constitutes play, & how the concepts in episode one can be applied to other forms of art.

Hosted by Sony San Diego’s Chase Williams & NASA’s Max Kelleher, The Greatest Game is an OK Beast podcast mini-series dedicated to the discussion of philosophy, aesthetics, and art theory – through the lens of video games.

Besides serving as an introduction and gateway to later conversations, the crew uses episode one to equip its listeners with a greater vocabulary and understanding of video games and play by utilizing established authors and philosophers.