This week, we have our final full interview for this batch of episodes, with Dr. Carly Kocurek. We had the chance to learn more about the interplay between humour, game technologies and moral panics.

Another week, another episode. This time around, we have our full interview with Karina Popp. Tune in to learn more about how humour in games crosses over with capitalism, irony and dolphins.

This week, we’ve got our interview with Dr. Aaron Trammell!

We had the chance to hear more about the differences between digital and analog games, the challenges of humor in tabletop and the power dynamics in those spaces.

Today we chat with Jamie MacDonald about Nordic Larp, Feminist Comedy Clubs, and Type 2 Fun!

This week, we have our full interview with Dr. Jaakko Stenros on Nordic Larp and the role of humour in dark or transgressive play.

This week, building on last week’s foundation, we take a look at how the form and impacts of humour can shift as games themselves can change. From digital to analog technologies, individual to group play, and the market considerations that can impact those changes.

Humour and Games is back with a new season!

This time around, we turn to the serious and silly uses of humour in social activism and pedagogy.

In this special episode of the podcast, we talk with Allison Kyran Cole & Dora Rogers about their upcoming game Alchemistresses!

Allison and Dora discuss the game’s design, as well as the ins and out of the specific kinds of laughs that come from self-discovery, feelings and the wacky scenarios that come from reincarnating as a magical-girl who might need to pose just right to get that special move off.

After a long break, we’re back with the final episode of season one. Audio issues won’t stop us from delivering. In this season finale, we’ve got our full interview with Osama Dorias!

Osama is a Senior Partner Relations Manager at Unity. He's also a game design teacher at Dawson College and a co-host of the Habibis podcast. Osama loves to empower people in expressing themselves through game making.

In this penultimate episode of the season, we’re thrilled to bring your our interview with Dr. Ida Toft!

Ida is a media artist who works with games and game-like sculptures, especially games that cater for not-quite-human and cross-species environments.

This week, we have the privilege of featuring our interview with Dr. Kishonna Gray!

Dr. Gray is an interdisciplinary, intersectional, digital media scholar whose areas of research include identity, performance and online environments, embodied deviance, cultural production, video games, and Black Cyberfeminism

Back for another episode! This week, we have an interview with Eva Toker!

Eva is the Chief Creative Officer at Rogue Harbour Game Studio. She has over a decade of experience in the entertainment industry and is a lifelong enthusiast for video games, art, and storytelling.

This week, we have someone close to the Concordia University community! It’s Dr. Pippin Barr!

Pippin Barr is a videogame maker, educator, and critic who lives and works in Montréal. He is an Assistant Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University and the Associate Director of the Technoculture, Art, and Games (TAG) Research Centre.

Episode 11, up now! Listen to our full interview with Montreal-based game maker narF.

narF is a game designer by day and a podcaster by night. Interested in the decentralized web, planning the demise of the internet giants and making weird sounds with virtual synths on a Raspberry Pi.

Welcome back for another interview! Up to bat this week is Kyler Kelly-Tan from Cleaver Endeavor, the studio responsible for Ultimate Chicken Horse and many evenings of raucous laughter.

He grew up wanting to be a physicist, but discovered 3D animation in his teens, which led him to study art and animation in university

This week, we have another episode with a games studies academic, who is also a game designer and comedy aficionado. It’s Dr. Dan Staines!

Dr. Dan Staines is a game scholar and critic from Sydney, Australia.

Welcome back for another amazing interview with one of our contributors. This week is the full interview, featured in previous episodes, is with Dietrich Squinkifer.

Dietrich Squinkifer, aka Squinky, is a transgender and neurodivergent new media artist who makes weird videogames about feelings while somehow continuing to survive in a late capitalist cyberpunk dystopia.

As mentioned in last week’s episode, we’re switching to full interviews from our collaborators! This week is the full interview, featured in previous episodes, with Dr. Brendan Keogh.

Dr. Brendan Keogh is a Brisbane-based critic, journalist, and academic. He is currently a Research Fellow in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology.

In this episode, we look back on the process of creating this series. Marc, Scott and Andrei reflect on the successes, hopes and challenges of producing podcasts in this format. From content that was left on the cutting room floor, to ethical concerns, to tech issues, nothing is off limits.

In this episode, we focus on how live streaming changes the implementation and reception of humor in games, from AAA to indie design processes. This time around, interviewees share insights on the intricacies of designing with audience interaction in mind, both in streams and during game jams or informal get togethers.