Meeting the Challenge: Inclusion in Tabletop Game Spaces

Thank you to Paul Booth, Tanya Pobuda, and Aaron Trammell for sharing their insights and expertise at this recent online event exploring inclusion in board - and hobby - game spaces. You can watch the full event here, or click through to our YouTube Channel to see this, and other recent recordings.

In this video Paul Booth shares his thoughts on the research process of Board Games as Media, considering how the situation of the researcher constructs the communities being investigated. Aaron Trammell takes a historical view of hobby gaming, tracing its roots in white supremacy. Tanya Pobuda shares her ethnographic and participatory research on player experiences of exclusion, and makes the provocation that the games industry is only willing to consider these issues through the lens of profit, rather than engaging in empathy. There was rich discussion following the talks and we thank everyone who turned out to listen and comment. The video ends rather abruptly before we thank our speakers — so I’ll thank them again here!

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