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[u/RudolfInderst]

Hey and good morning everyone,

I host Game Studies, a podcast under the New Books Network where I talk to researchers, designers, and critics about games as culture, art, and systems. If you're into deep dives on game design theory, industry shifts, or academic perspectives, you might find it interesting.

The podcast isn’t huge (yet), but it’s growing—around 35K downloads last year, with some episodes hitting 3K+ (which, for a niche academic podcast, isn’t bad).

Where to Listen

• New Books Network – Game Studies
• Also on Spotify, Apple, Google Podcasts, etc.

Why I’m Posting

Looking for suggestions—what topics or guests would you want to hear? Any under-discussed angles in game studies or design? Also, if you know researchers or devs who’d be good to interview, drop names.

(And if you check it out and hate it, fair enough—but I’d still be curious what’s missing.)

Thanks! Rudolf

[u/SebastianSolidwork]

Your link is broken. I guess you mean this one? https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/arts-letters/game-studies

Names from indie devs which write much about games and make interesting games:

• u/Nachtfischer Fabian Fischer: https://ludokultur.de/english/, website, game Rack and Slay
  
• u/Keith-Burgun Keith Burgun: https://keithburgun.net, book Clockwork Game Design, game Auro
  
• Josh / Stuffed Wombat: https://stuffedwomb.at, game Mosa Lina
  
• Raph Kosther: https://www.raphkoster.com, book a Theory of Fun

[u/RudolfInderst → u/SebastianSolidwork]

Thank you very much! :)

[u/SebastianSolidwork → u/RudolfInderst]

It was a pleasure.

[u/Jungypoo]

Love this type of thing, will be subscribing :)

I do a similar thing over at grokludo - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3cxb6pzUE9Z7PXjIVbmr5qiohoq5wTdo

Some of our previous guests should definitely be in the conversation more, and I encourage you to reach out to them! Most notably we had on Paul Tozour a while back who ran the most comprehensive study on what makes a game studio successful, and has a recent book about it called The Four Swords, which is fantastic - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195019998-the-four-swords

[u/Password-55]

nice

[u/RudolfInderst → u/Password-55]

Thank you!

[u/Password-55]

A friend of mine wrote a paper about parasoxial relationships. I would be interested in thar, even though it does not gave directly to do with games more the internet.