Plus 7 Intelligence | How Games Impact People

Jordan Erica Webber and Dan Griliopoulos discuss their book Ten Things Video Games Can Teach Us: (about life, philosophy and everything) - We discuss a variety of ways that video games approach philosophical concepts, such as ethics, the philosophy of mind, and more - Some games mentioned in this episode: - Bioshock - System Shock - SOMA - To the Moon - Papers, Please - Ultima Underworld - and virtue ethics - Swapper - Talos Principle - Fable 2 - That Dragon, Cancer - How Edward Snowden derived much of his moral philosophy from video games - specifically Tekken (Read more - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/05/14/how-video-games-prepared-edward-snowden-to-leak-nsa-secrets/?utm_term=.300754d50985 | https://kotaku.com/edward-snowden-sees-himself-as-a-video-game-hero-1575870000) - What Rust can teach us about forming societies and the idea of a justified revolution Links - Jordan Erica Webber - Jordanwebber.com - @jawsew Dan Griliopoulos - @GriddleOctopus - https://improbable.io/ - - LOOT +++++++ About +7 Intelligence +7 Intelligence is the podcast about how games impact people. Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work. +++++++ Listen to the show: Apple Podcasts | Android | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Radiopublic RSS feed Find the show online: +7 Intelligence Website On Twitter: @7_Intelligence On Facebook: @plus7intelligence +7 Intelligence is a member of the Podglomerate network. +++++++ Music by Creo Epilogue by Creo is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.

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• Sarah Roman and Kade Wells revolutionized their classrooms using Dungeons & Dragons. Now they are helping teachers around the world do the same.
• Part of the Games + Education series

Links

• +7 Intelligence Discord Server
  • Join an awesome community all about the power of games to influence our lives and the world around us. Come chat and play games with me and your fellow listeners

• Teaching with DnD (LINK)

• Critical Core therapeutic tabletop RPG Kickstarter
• +7 episode with the founders of Game to Grow+++++++

About +7 Intelligence

+7 Intelligence is the podcast about how games impact people.
Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.
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+7 Intelligence Website

On Twitter: @7_Intelligence

On Facebook: @plus7intelligence

On Twitch: twitch.tv/plus7intelligence
+7 Intelligence is a member of the Podglomerate network.
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Music by Creo

Epilogue by Creo is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.

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Calls for video game legislation and NRA boycotts have me thinking - A thorny side of the issue that isn’t often discussed - Show announcements - including a new website! Links - 2013 Article on the licensing deals between video game companies and weapon manufacturers: Shooters: How Video Games Fund Arms Manufacturers - 2018 Guardian article: Video games and violence are linked – but not the way Trump thinks - EA will no longer pay gun makers for the right to depict weapons in games - Episode 20 on Violence in Video Games - Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games is Wrong - LOOT +++++++ About +7 Intelligence +7 Intelligence is the podcast about how games impact people. Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work. +++++++ Listen to the show: Apple Podcasts | Android | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Radiopublic RSS feed Find the show online: +7 Intelligence Website On Twitter: @7_Intelligence On Facebook: @plus7intelligence +7 Intelligence is a member of the Podglomerate network. +++++++ Music by Creo Epilogue by Creo is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.

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• I speak with Jupiter Hadley about the phenomenon of game jams and the world of indie games
• Game Jams
• How to get involved in making games
• Awesome places to find indie games, like itch.io
• How she has played more indie video games than anyone – but the Guinness World Book of Records won’t give her credit for it
• How indie games can explore topics that AAA games can’t

Links

• Jupiter’s Youtube Channel
• Jupiter’s Patreon Page
• Find ALL THE GAME JAMS
• Play indie games at itch.io

• LOOT

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About +7 Intelligence

+7 Intelligence is the podcast about how games impact people.
Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.
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Listen to the show:

Apple Podcasts | Android | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Radiopublic

RSS feed

Find the show online:

+7 Intelligence Website

On Twitter: @7_Intelligence

On Facebook: @plus7intelligence

+7 Intelligence is a member of the Podglomerate network.
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Music by Creo

Epilogue by Creo is licensed under a Attri...

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The series on Games + Social Change rides back in on Sept 3rd!

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