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  • Ludology: Ludology 343 It’s Alive!

    Ludology: Ludology 343 It’s Alive!


    Welcome!

    Welcome to Ludology, an analytical discussion of the hows and whys of the world of board games. Rather than news and reviews, Ludology explores a variety of topics about games from a wider lens, as well as discuss game history, game design and game players.

    We post a new Ludology episode every other week. In these episodes, hosts Erica Bouyouris and Sen-Foong Lim deep-dive into a single topic within game design, often with a well-regarded guest from the game industry. We generally focus on tabletop game design (mainly board games and RPGs), but we often pull in experts from all forms of games, from video games to escape rooms to slot machines.

    On weeks where there is no flagship Ludology episode, we will alternate between two smaller mini-sodes. Erica and Sen are happy to announce that Sarah Shipp of Shippboard Games and Stephanie Campbell of TTRPGKids will be joining us for the next year, providing additional content between our longer episodes.

    Sarah’s segment, Thinking Beyond Mechanisms, is a monthly feature that dives deeper into the other aspects of games beyond the dice and cards we’re all familiar with.

    Stephanie’s segment, TTRPGKids, explores how parents and teachers can use role playing games with children in the home and in the classroom.

    We hope you enjoy the additional content!

    Our History

    We aim for most Ludology episodes to be timeless, so you are welcome to explore our entire catalog. Most of it should age quite well. The podcast was started in 2011 by Geoff Engelstein and Ryan Sturm, with Mike Fitzgerald taking over for Ryan in 2015. Gil and Scott joined the show in 2017 when Mike stepped aside, and Emma joined in 2019 when Geoff ended his tenure as host. Emma left in 2021, and Erica and Sen joined us. Since then, Scott stepped down in 2022 and Gil will be hanging up his mic in 2023, leaving Erica and Sen to carry on this amazing legacy.

    Erica and Sen are working to bring new voices to Ludology and have some great things to announce as gaming expands to include even more people!

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    Have your own thoughts about our topics? We encourage you to visit us at our guild on Boardgamegeek to get involved in a continuing discussion.

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  • Todd Howard acknowledges The Elder Scrolls 6 is actually still alive, despite the year-long radio silence since we last heard about it

    Todd Howard acknowledges The Elder Scrolls 6 is actually still alive, despite the year-long radio silence since we last heard about it


    While all the old and busted Elder Scrolls fans (all my coworkers) are excited and popping bottles around today’s The Elder Scrolls Oblivion Remake stream and shadow drop, those with an eye for the future may be happy to learn that Todd Howard took time to acknowledge that The Elder Scrolls 6 still exists! He was even so bold as to state that the team was working on it.

    The full quote, stated ahead of a plentiful feast of Oblivion Remaster news and footage, is as follows: “obviously we’re working on the 6th chapter here”.

    Wow. Fantastic. This is the biggest info drop we’ve had for The Elder Scrolls 6 since March 2024, when Bethesda confirmed that early builds of ES6 were out in the wild for testers to mess around with. They were even so generous as to hint at the game being fun, which y’know, you’d certainly hope so.

    Before that, of course, we had the scorching update courtesy of a former Skyrim designer, who said that we shouldn’t expect an update on ES6 until six months before release. That was in October 2023. Only a month before that Phil Spencer said that he believed ES6 was within five years of it’s release date! This sounded a touch comical at the time, but lo and behold, we’re nearing two years since he said it and there’s still precious little to go on.

    It’s worth noting that in terms of actual, concrete updates from Bethesda, there’s been crickets for years. Back in August 2023, the company confirmed development had started, roughly five years after the announcement during E3. I may be going out on a limb here, and feel free to call me nuts for suggesting as much, but do you reckon they may have announced the game a touch too early?

    Listen, all joking and snark aside, it’s good to see at least a faint sign of life from Elder Scrolls 6. It’s been so long. I was still at school when Elder Scrolls 6 was announced, and now I’m an adult with bills and bad habits and dating apps on my phone. Bethesda, probably still the most acclaimed first person RPG developer out there, I’m sure will do a cracking job at it. Just like, release some art or something? Liam Neeson had more concrete proof his daughter was alive in Taken than Elder Scrolls fans have for this game being real.

    Let us know below if you feel anything anymore, and how much student loan debt I’ll have by the time Elder Scrolls 6 comes out!





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