University Challenge

The Incredible Playable Podcast

Alistair turns his spyglass of playfulness towards TV quiz show University Challenge: a show whose main gimmick is that the questions are really really hard.

He explores the emergent design of these super-difficult questions, and his own experience trying to re-interpret the show as a playful video challenge. Then, he points his ludolicious lens towards games in the art world, to see how artists have approached the same idea: using games to generate art.

Follow Alistair on Twitch for unusual audience-led performances or take a look at his past experiments: https://www.twitch.tv/agaitcheson/videos?filter=highlights&sort=time

My own work cited:

Getting a Perfect Score in University Challenge (YouTube video) https://youtu.be/PHtcKsAy2gQ

The co-operative Sonic the Hedgehog controller: https://www.alistairaitcheson.com/games/megacooperator.html

Links from the episode:

Exquisite Corpse(Wikipedia entry) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse

ioq3aPaint - Julian Oliver: https://julianoliver.com/output/ioq3aPaint.html

Super Mario Clouds - Cory Arcangel: https://coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/2002-001-super-mario-clouds

Beat the Champ - Cory Arcangel: https://coryarcangel.com/shows/beat-the-champ/

SOD - JODI: https://www.leonardo.info/gallery/gallery351/jodi.html

Works of Game by John Sharp: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/works-game

Music credits:

Kevin McCloud: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler (Creative Commons Attribution licence)

Kai Engel: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/ (Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial licence)

Lee Maddeford: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Maddeford/Instrumentals_1/ (Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial licence)