Every Game in This City

For Season 2 of EveryGameInThis.City eight game designers, researchers, journalists, and curators met up in Shanghai to try and watch every match of the International Dota 2 Championship! Find us on the @IdleThumbs Network where we'll be releasing episodes every Friday!

No episode of EveryGameInThis.City this week! We're taking a bit of a holiday break (while working on translating an hour long Chinese interview for Episode 208!) The final episodes of our story will air in the new year!🎄🧧❄️

We're back with EveryGameInThis.City 207! From cheers and jeers during PSG.LGD vs OG inside the stadium 🙊 to bartering for blind boxes and swag bags outside the stadium 🙈, in this episode @ybika helps us make sense of some serious monkey business 🙉 idlethumbs.net/everygame/epis…

In three hours at 8PM EST / 5PM PST / 9AM HKT @chouxsalad and I will be keynoting Chinese DiGRA 2021! #ChineseDiGRA21 🇨🇳🕹 If you're interested in games, money, and China please drop by in person at Hong Kong Baptist University or remote at chinesedigra2021.wixsite.com/conference

And if you ARE caught up with Season 2...in the previous season we went to Kuala Lumpur to try and play every escape room! 1️⃣ SEASON 1 1️⃣ everygameinthis.city/apple everygameinthis.city/spotify everygameinthis.city/soundcloud

Hi everyone! No EveryGameInThis.City episode this week but we'll be back to our regularly scheduled program on December 3! In the meantime if you're not all caught up... 2️⃣ SEASON 2 2️⃣ everygameinthis.city/apple2 everygameinthis.city/spotify2 everygameinthis.city/soundcloud2

We are not messing around with these references

There's a new episode of EveryGameInThis.City where we ask the perennial question: is #Dota an ⚔️ARTS⚔️ or an 🎨art🎨? Outside The International #TI9, we encounter esports as art and art as esports at the UN Art Center and How Art Museum in Shanghai! idlethumbs.net/everygame/epis…

@JohnnyPanadol Hey thanks for the heads up—fixed! (Though it might take a second to populate.)

🎙NEW EVERYGAMEINTHIS.CITY🎙 The whole cast is back in one room to talk about how we each played at #TI9—from arenas and arcades to malls and night cafes! AND in the back half, @Kipspul joins us to talk about her work as a #Dota2 analyst and coach! idlethumbs.net/everygame/epis…

As one of our experts on escape rooms, it's a real treat to hear how @LeeShangLun navigates something like #Dota2 for the first time. His leap from watching esports to interviewing people around Dota to making trivia/bar games (soon™) is so inspirational to me as a designer.

@LeeShangLun @dchameleon @TrentPax @SirActionSlacks @IceFrog This...is a wild one 🍕👖

It's time for 🎙Shang Lun's Late Game🎙, the episode of EveryGameInThis.City where @LeeShangLun finds his way onto a #Dota2 talkshow at #TI9 and interviews a slew of cast and crew—from @dchameleon and @TrentPax to @SirActionSlacks and @IceFrog??? idlethumbs.net/everygame/epis…

@GhostTownGoldie @MrChad And I love this moment where @william_partin and @UpperCaveMan000 are almost "Hoodwinked" by @LeeShangLun's ad hoc escape room puzzle!

Still get a good laugh every time I watch @GhostTownGoldie muse about "Dark Pattern" (to @MrChad's chagrin)!

Did you miss our Melbourne International Games Week panel when it was on Steam last week? No worries! You can watch the whole thing on YouTube! #MIGW21 youtube.com/watch?v=D7SzNR…