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About Rudolf Thomas Inderst
Rudolf Thomas Inderst (*1978) enjoys video games since 1985. He received a master’s degree in political science, American cultural studies as well as contemporary and recent history from Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich and holds two PhDs in game studies (LMU & University of Passau). Currently, he's teaching as a professor for game design at the IU International University for Applied Science and holds the position as lead editor at the Suisse online journal Nahaufnahmen.ch for the game section.Rudolf Inderst is a professor of Game Design at the IU International University of Applied Science.
NBN Episodes hosted by Rudolf Thomas:
May 8, 2024
(Not) In the Game
How do games represent history, and how do we make sense of the history of games? The industry regularly uses history to sell products, while processe…
May 4, 2024
The Rule Book
How games are built on the foundations of rules, and how rules—of which there are only five kinds—really work. Board games to sports, digital games t…
March 15, 2024
Run and Jump
How abstract design decisions in 2D platform games create rich worlds of meaning for players.Since the 1980s, 2D platform games have captivated their …
March 2, 2024
Posthuman Gaming
Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities (Routledge, 2023) explores the relationship between avatar and gamer in the massively …
January 24, 2024
The Clouds
On a slow autumn afternoon, an atmospheric physicist working at the Malta Weather Station receives a surprising email from a colleague working in the …
January 19, 2024
Understanding Interactive Digital Narrative
This remarkably clearly written and timely critical evaluation of core issues in the study and application of interactive digital narrative (IDN) unta…
January 15, 2024
Mainstreaming and Game Journalism
Why games are still niche and not mainstream, and how journalism can help them gain cultural credibility. Mainstreaming and Game Journalism (MIT Pres…
December 20, 2023
The Child in Videogames
Drawing across Games Studies, Childhood Studies, and Children’s Literature Studies, Emma Reay's book The Child in Videogames: From the Meek, to the Mi…
December 7, 2023
Playing the Middle Ages
The Middle Ages have provided rich source material for physical and digital games from Dungeons and Dragons to Assassin's Creed. Playing the Middle Ag…
November 9, 2023
Playing Place
An essay collection exploring the board game's relationship to the built environment, revealing the unexpected ways that play reflects perceptions of …
November 6, 2023
Computer Games As Landscape Art
Peter Nelson's book Computer Games As Landscape Art (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) proposes that computer games are the paradigmatic form of contemporary …
September 23, 2023
Time and Space in Video Games
Video games are temporal artifacts: They change with time as players interact with them in accordance with rules. In Time and Space in Video Games: A …
September 7, 2023
Open World Structures
What role do algorithms play in the construction of images and the representation of the world and weather in computer games? How does the design of r…
August 23, 2023
Pixelated Madness
The relationship between madness and video games has been notoriously tense. In an abundance of titles, stereotypes and stigmatisations can be found—n…
July 31, 2023
Games and Gamification in Market Research
Games are the most engaging medium of all time: they harness storytelling and heuristics, drive emotion and push the evolution of technology in a way …
July 19, 2023
50 Years of Text Games
50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon is an extensively researched book chronicling the first half-century of interactive fiction:…
June 22, 2023
The Pop Theology of Videogames
Young people in the West are more likely to encounter religion in videogames than in places of worship like churches, mosques or temples. Lars de Wild…
June 11, 2023
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist
The videogame industry, we're invariably told, is a multibillion-dollar, high-tech business conducted by large corporations in certain North American,…
May 11, 2023
We the Gamers
Ethics and civics have always mattered, but perhaps they matter now more than ever before. Recently, with the rise of online teaching and movements li…
May 7, 2023
The World of Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VII altered the course of video game history when it was released in 1997 on Sony's PlayStation system. It converted the Japanese role-p…
March 26, 2023
Virtual Realities
Today I talked to Felix Zimmermann about his book Virtual Realities: Atmospheric Experience of the Past in Digital Games (Virtuelle Wirklichkeiten: At…
March 12, 2023
Fictional Games
What role do imaginary games have in story-telling? Why do fiction authors outline the rules of a game that the reader will never watch or play? Com…
March 8, 2023
Playing Software
The play element at the heart of our interactions with computers—and how it drives the best and the worst manifestations of the information age. Whet…
February 19, 2023
Video Games
Let's plays are among the most popular genres on YouTube. The visual worlds of video games shape the worldviews of millions. Gaming is a hobby and a m…