Honoring Ty Isbell
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!
Read MoreThe 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
Read MoreTake 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
Read MoreIf 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
Read MoreIn 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
Read MoreIn 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
Read MoreIn 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
Read MoreThis 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…