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  • Honoring Ty Isbell

    By  Take This · Dec 3, 2021 · Announcements, Events

    Content Warning: This post discusses suicide. Each year in November we remember Matt Hughes, whose death was the founding impetus for Take This. This year around the same time, Dave…

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  • Giving Tuesday is November 30!

    By  Take This · Nov 24, 2021 · Events

    The pandemic has been hard on everyone, but Take This has the tools, resources, and training to help people recover. In order to do that, we need to expand! Help…

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  • Changes to Take This Talks Streams

    By  Take This · Nov 22, 2021 · Announcements, Events, Video Games

    Take This started streaming in January of this year (thanks, pandemic!), and we’ve been having quite a lot of fun with Take This Plays, Take This Talks: Dev Day, and…

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  • Academic Ramblings: Avatar Identification

    By  Rachel Kowert, PhD · Oct 13, 2021 · Research

    If you’ve ever played an RPG or really any game that allows you to customize your character you’ve likely shared a similar experience: you go through the sliders and try…

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  • Jargon Schmargon: Self Determination Theory

    By  Rachel Kowert, PhD · Oct 7, 2021 · Research

    In this episode of Jargon Schmargon, we discuss Self-Determination Theory in the context of video game play motivations. Self Determination Theory, or SDT, is something I have talked about in…

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  • Video Games in a Post-COVID 19 World

    By  Rachel Kowert, PhD · Sep 28, 2021 · COVID, Research, Video Games

    In the months since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the general discourse about video games in the public and media seems to have shifted in relation to the uses and effects…

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  • Games for Change Student Challenge Partnership

    By  Eve Crevoshay · Sep 10, 2021 · Announcements

    In 2021, Take This was invited by Games for Change to create a theme on resilience for its annual Student Challenge. We are proud to partner with this fantastic organization…

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  • Academic Ramblings: Uses, Gratifications, & Motivations of Game Play

    By  Rachel Kowert, PhD · Sep 8, 2021 · Research

    This month’s Jargon Schmargon was about game motivations, which is intimately tied to a theory we use quite a bit in game studies called uses and gratifications. Uses and gratifications…

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