FirstPersonPodcast

First Person Podcast is a subset of First Person Scholar. Our content advocates for a new dynamic, one in which we demonstrates our relevancy through timely, rigorous, and accessible criticism that challenges all players to engage in what Mary Flanagan calls critical play.

The podcasts we produce encourage players—be them developers, scholars, critics, or enthusiasts—to consider alternatives to popular interpretations of games, game play, and games culture. Through this discourse we seek to establish and sustain a critical conversation amongst those producing and playing games, demonstrating in the process that the player is a figure capable of enriching and challenging our understanding of games and what they are capable of.

First Person Podcast is produced by Giuseppe Femia with support from The Games Institute at the University of Waterloo. You can find us @FPSWeekly, or start a conversation using the #FirstPersonPodcast on Twitter.

FirstPersonPodcast’s tracks

• First Person Podcast Episode 56 - Nostalgia And Capitalism In Gaming by FirstPersonPodcast
• First Person Podcast Episode 55: RPG Actual Play With Mariah E. Marsden And Kelsey Paige Mason by FirstPersonPodcast
• First Person Podcast Episode 54: The Social Functions Of RPGs by FirstPersonPodcast
• First Person Podcast Episode 53 – Video Game Preservation Part 2: Return of the Pirates by FirstPersonPodcast
• First Person Podcast Episode 52: Video Game Preservation by FirstPersonPodcast
• First Person Podcast Episode 51: Best Games Of 2021 by FirstPersonPodcast
• First Person Podcast Episode 50: State of Game Studies by FirstPersonPodcast
• First Person Podcast Episode 49: Game Work And Unions by FirstPersonPodcast
• First Person Podcast Episode 48: Disco Elysium The Final Cut by FirstPersonPodcast
• First Person Podcast Episode 47: Queer Representation In Gaming by FirstPersonPodcast