Say It Like You Play It

著者: Ibi Baxter-Webb & Joe Baxter-Webb
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  • The podcast about games, language and culture. With hosts Dr. Ibi and Dr. Joe. Dr. Ibi has a Ph.D. in Linguistics and likes to play games. Dr. Joe has a Ph.D. in Media & Cultural studies, and designs games for a living.


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The podcast about games, language and culture. With hosts Dr. Ibi and Dr. Joe. Dr. Ibi has a Ph.D. in Linguistics and likes to play games. Dr. Joe has a Ph.D. in Media & Cultural studies, and designs games for a living.


If you would like more Say It Like You Play It content, you can find our BLOG here.


If you would like to support us, you can buy us a coffee here.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ibi Baxter-Webb & Joe Baxter-Webb
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  • Social simulation in games: what is it and why isn’t there more of it?
    2024/11/01

    In this episode, we talk about social simulation in games, taking as our starting point Mitu Khandaker's talk ‘Thinking about people: Designing games for social simulation’. Hosts Dr. Ibi and Dr. Joe discuss:


    • What’s a social sim?
    • Autonomous behaviour versus authored branching stories
    • Social simulation in tabletop games
    • What are NPCs for?
    • The multiple functions of communication and interaction in real life and games
    • Games such as The Sims, Baldur's Gate 3, Skyrim, Dragon Age, Redshirts, and Ctrl.Alt.DEL


    List of resources:


    Jakobson, Roman. 1960. ‘Linguistics and poetics’. In T. Seboek (ed.) Style in Language, MIT Press, 350-377.

    Available at: https://www.academia.edu/download/33061075/Jakobson_Eks_15_F12.pdf


    Khandaker, Mitu. 2015 ‘Thinking about people: Designing games for social simulation’, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco.

    Video available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haNy1kSHMt8&t=2591s


    Mathiot, Madeleine & Garvin, Paul L. 1975. ‘The functions of language: A sociocultural view’, Anthropological Quarterly, 48(3). 148–156. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3316921


    Searle, John R. 1975. ‘A taxonomy of illocutionary acts.’ In K. Gunderson (ed.) Language, Mind, and Knowledge, University of Minnesota Press, 344–369.



    Contains some strong (and other type types of) language.


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  • Ludemes, ‘game as language’, and other metaphors
    2024/09/28

    In this episode we try to wrap our heads around the concept of 'ludemes'. Hosts Dr. Ibi and Dr. Joe discuss:


    • The origins of the term 'ludeme'
    • Different games scholars' and game designers' definitions of ludemes
    • Comparisons between ludemes, memes, genes, and linguistic concepts such as phonemes and morphemes
    • Underlying metaphors used to describe games as systems, such as ‘game as language’ and ‘game as organism’
    • The ‘language as organism’ metaphor in historical linguistics
    • The economy of metaphors in academia


    List of sources we read for this episode:


    Bojin, Nis. 2010. ‘Ludemes and the Linguistic Turn’. Futureplay '10: Proceedings of the International Academic Conference on the Future of Game Design and

    Technology, Vancouver, 25–32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1920778.1920783


    Browne, Cameron. 2021. ‘Everything’s a Ludeme. Well, Almost Everything’. Proceedings of the XIIIrd Board Game Studies Colloquium (BGS 2021), Paris.

    Available at: https://sorbonne-paris-nord.hal.science/hal-03737317/document


    Depaulis, Thierry. 2019. ‘On the Origins of the Word ‘Ludeme’ (French Ludème)’. In Browne et al.,

    Foundations of Digital Archaeoludology. Report on Dagstuhl Research Meeting, Saarbrucken, 23–26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1905.13516

    Available at: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.13516


    Koster, Raph. 2005. Conference notes for ‘A Grammar of Gameplay (Game Atoms: Can Games be Dia- grammed?)’. Game Developers Conference (GDC ’05), San Francisco. https://www.theoryoffun.com/grammar/gdc2005.htm


    Koster, Raph. 2006. 'A bit on how I think games work' https://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/05/a-bit-on-how-i-think-games-work/


    Koster, Raph. 2006. Comment made March 7, 2006 at 2:44 pm

    https://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/05/a-bit-on-how-i-think-games-work/#comment-3827


    Koster, Raph. 2006. Comment made March 7, 2006 at 4:26 pm

    https://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/05/a-bit-on-how-i-think-games-work/#comment-3836


    Parlett, David. 2006. ‘What’s a ludeme?’ https://www.parlettgames.uk/gamester/whatsaludeme.html



    Contains some strong (and other type types of) language.


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  • Deciphering the Nebula: language, history and narratology in Heaven’s Vault
    2024/08/25

    In this episode we discuss the brilliant Heaven's Vault; a narrative adventure videogame about decyphering a constructed language in order to learn the history of a fantastical world. Hosts Dr. Ibi and Dr. Joe cover topics including:


    • How the game works
    • Ideographic vs Alphabetic writing systems
    • Semantics and Morphology in language
    • Science fiction, media representation, and attempts at avoiding orientalism
    • Translation and archaeology as game mechanics


    To hear Jon Ingold of Inkle talk about Bladerunner and writing game dialogue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vRfNtvFVRo

    For an excellent GDC talk on the making of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o02uJ-ktCuk


    Contains some strong (and other type types of) language.


    If you would like more Say It Like You Play It content, you can find our BLOG here.


    If you would like to support us, you can buy us a coffee here.


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