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Welcome back to Game Studies Study Buddies, your one-stop shop for everything you might want to know about the academic

field of game studies, or at least the parts that we've read.

I'm Cameron, and with me as always is Bouncing Michael.

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Hi everyone, and welcome back to New Books in Game Studies, a podcast channel on the New Books Network.

On this channel, we explore new scholarship that helps us understand games as cultural, historical, artistic, socioeconomic, and technological artifacts.

I'm your host, Rudolf Inders, professor for game studies at the University of Applied Sciences Neu-Ulm, Germany.

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Before we continue, a quick note for our listeners.

And I want to talk about the map.

And I have a Game Studies reference, but I first just want to talk about the map of Black Worm because the map does something that used to be pretty common, but it's quite uncommon now, which is that instead of having hexes or squares or whatever kind of sort of like tiles or whatever, instead, the map just has a thing in the corner that says scale one inch equals one half mile.

And so the way that you would run this adventure is you'd print out this piece of paper, and you would get your ruler out, and you would just arrange it such that, you know, every two inches is a mile.

And now you can measure distances with your ruler.