Recap / Extra Credits

A recap page for Extra Credits.

Season 1

1. "Bad Writing"
2. 'The Future of MMOs'
3. 'Innovation'
4. 'Where Did Survival Horror Go?'
5. "No Redeeming Value"
6. 'Free Speech'
7. 'Enriching Lives'
8. ''Gamer''
9. 'Video Game Music'
10. 'Project Ten Dollar'
11. 'Kinect and Move'
12. 'Diversity'
13. 'Mailbag #1'
14. 'Symbolism 101'
15. 'Facing Controversy'
16. "So You Want to be a Game Designer"
17. 'Easy Games'
18. 'The Skinner Box'
19. 'Sex in Games'
20. 'Sexual Diversity'
21. 'Narrative Mechanics'
22. 'A Season of Hope'
23. 'Choice and Conflict'
24. 'Mailbag #2'
25. 'Non-Combat Gaming'

Season 2

1. 'Piracy'
2. 'Amnesia and Story Structure'
3. 'Playing Like a Designer (pt. 1)'
4. 'Playing Like a Designer (pt. 2)'
5. "Achievements"
6. 'An Open Letter to EA Marketing'
7. 'Ludus Florentis'
8. 'True Female Characters'
9. "Tutorials 101"
10. 'Tangential Learning'
11. 'Gamification'
12. 'Metrics'
13. 'Consoles Are the New Coin-Op'
14. "Games You Might Not Have Tried (Or Heard Of)"
15. 'Learning from Other M'
16. 'Gamifying Education'
17. 'Graphics vs. Aesthetics'
18. 'The Myth of the Gun'
19. 'NOT a Security Episode'
20. 'Anonymous'
21. 'Our Oscars'
22. 'The Role of the Player'
23. "Game Reviews"
24. 'Race in Games'
25. 'Sharing Our Medium'

Season 3

1. 'Microtransactions'
2. 'S.978 and Operation Rainfall'
3. 'The Pre-Production Problem'
4. ''Art' is Not the Opposite of Fun'
5. 'The MMORTS'
6. "Game Addiction, Pt. 1"
7. 'Game Addiction, Pt. 2'
8. 'Let's Talk About Publishing'
9. 'Pacing'
10. 'Cutscenes'
11. 'Pro Gaming'
12. "Games You Might Not Have Tried #2"
13. 'So You Want to be a Producer'
14. 'Propaganda Games'
15. 'Call of Juarez: The Cartel'
16. 'Zombies'
17. 'Working Conditions'
18. 'The Uncanny Valley'
19. 'The Diablo III Marketplace'
20. 'Deus Ex: Human Revolution'
21. 'The Singularity'
22. 'Technobabble'
23. "Playtesting"
24. 'Puzzle Games'
25. 'Skyrim's Opening'

Season 4

1. 'SOPA & PIPA'
2. 'Mailbag #3'
3. 'Mailbag #4'
4. 'So You Want to be a Developer, Part 1'
5. 'So You Want to be a Developer, Part 2'
6. 'Western & Japanese RPGs, Part 1'
7. 'Western & Japanese RPGs, Part 2'
8. 'Western & Japanese RPGs, Part 3'
9. 'Mass Effect 3 DLC'
10. 'TransGaming'
11. "Games You Might Not Have Tried #3"
12. 'Kinect Disconnect'
13. 'Crowdfunding'
14. 'Harassment'
15. 'ARGs (Part 1)'
16. 'ARGs (Part 2)'
17. 'EC Fund Update'
18. 'Spectrum Crunch'
19. 'Hard-Boiled'
20. 'Politics'
21. "Games You Might Not Have Tried #4"
22. 'Power Creep'
23. 'The Hero's Journey (Part 1)'
24. 'The Hero's Journey (Part 2)'
25. 'Perfect Imbalance'

Season 5

1. "Games You Might Not Have Tried: 16-bit"
2. 'Digital Resale'
3. 'Mechanics as Metaphor (Part 1)'
4. 'Mechanics as Metaphor (Part 2)'
5. Spec Ops: The line (Part 1)
6. Spec Ops: The line (Part 2)
7. On Game Schools
8. Energy systems
9. How the First Five Minutes Draw Players In
10. Digital Rentals and the Online Arcade
11. Mailbag #5
12. Why Games Need to Be More than Fun
13. Aesthetics of Play - Redefining Genres in Gaming
14. Demo Daze
15. Horror Protagonist
16. My Name Is Ozymandias...
17. Making Multiplayer Fun For The Opponent
18. Combining Games
19. Balancing for Skill - The Link from Optimal Power to Strategy
20. Religion in Games - I: Mechanics, Lore, and Heart
21. Religion In Games (Part 2)
22. God Does Not Play Dice
23. Depth vs Complexity
24. How To Start Your Game Narrative
25. The Beast Macabre

Season 6

1. Global Games: Brazil
2. Funding XCOM (Part 1)
3. Funding XCOM (Part 2)
4. More Than Exposition - Building Worlds without Info Dumps
5. Word Choice
6. Intrinsic vs Extrinsic
7. Why Console Specs Don't Matter
8. Differences in Scale vs Differences in Kind
9. How Walking Dead Revived Adventure Games
10. For Whom the Bell Tolls
11. Minority
12. Games You Might Not Have Tried #5
13. What Makes a Good Stealth Game
14. Global Games - Mexico, Argentina & Chile
15. The J.C. Penney's Effect
16. Toxicity - Why Players Rage and How to Defuse It
17. Dansky
18. Moving Forward
19. In Service to the Brand
20. Challenging vs. Punishing Games
21. Not a Babysitter - Why Parents Should Play Games with their Kids
22. Used Games
23. Designing for a Touch Screen
24. A Little Bit of Yesterday
25. Game Compulsion (Part 3)

Season 7

1. So You Want To Be an Indie
2. Games in Education
3. A Case for Board Games
4. Myers Briggs and Character Creation
5. Games You Might Not Have Tried #6
6. The Feeling of Agency
7. The Illusion Of Choice