Video Games and Human Values Initiative

We’ll continue exploring the Fantasy Flight Games cooperative Living Card Game (LCG) as a rogue-like epic occasion on Thursday, with a playversation streamed on my Twitch channel, if I can get it going. Here’s a post-series (follow back from the first link) to get you thinking about how my usual bardic parallels line up. Most importantly, I’d like to see if the LCG has a whiff of cordite about it, as the smoking-gun link between bardic narrative and roguelike virtuosity.

Discussion on Discord this Thursday at 8:30pm EDT / 5:30pm PDT!

For our first Symposium of 2021, we’re going to talk about Good Sudoku. Specifically, I’m interested in talking about how Good Sudoku tackles the question of developing skills necessary to successfully navigate a game’s procedurally generated terrain, by providing affordances for just in time learning and by explicitly modeling the player’s puzzle solving processes.

The usual time and place: 8:30pm EST / 7:30pm CST / 5:30pm PST, voice chat over Discord.

We’ve been building on our current Minecraft server pretty much monthly since December 2010; it’s been a good decade, but our energy levels are flagging a bit, so we’ve decided to declare victory. The saved data isn’t going anywhere, so we’ll have the option to continue later if we want, but for now, this will be the last of our regular monthly sessions.

It’ll be at the usual time: December 31, 8:30pm EST / 5:30pm PST, voice chat over discord.

Because of Thanksgiving, we’re moving Minecraft up a week, so we’ll do it this Thursday. Usual time: 8:30 EST / 7:30 CST / 5:30 PST.