HeyJaredGaming with Science
The Gaming with Science Podcast looks at the intersection of science and tabletop board games, with the occasional dip into video games, RPGs, game theory, or whatever else the dice roll up.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 6
- Latest publication
- Sep 16, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 8, 2026
Latest episodes
S3E07.1 - Elizabeth Hargrave (bonus interview) (opens the original)
Read excerpt
#Wingspan #ElizabethHargrave #Interview #Designer #BoardGames #Science Summary After 3 years of comparing every game to Wingspan, we finally get to talk with the designer herself, Elizabeht Hargrave! We talk about her design process, favorite games and memories as a designer, current and future projects, and all sort of other fun stuff. And about birds, of course. (And butterflies, foxes, seashells, and other wonderful things.) So if you, like us, have been waiting years for this moment, please
S3E07 - The Fox Experiment (Dog Domestication) (opens the original)
Read excerpt
#Domestication #TheFoxExperiment #ElizabethHargrave #Dogs #Evolution #BoardGames #Science Summary Foxes, wolves, and corn, oh my! We're talking domestication today, all revolving around The Fox Experiment and two Russian scientists' attempt to understand how we turned wolves into dogs. We're joined by Dr. Angela Perri, an expert in dog domestication, and cover what domestication is, how wolves became dogs, how that probably kickstarted a lot of other domestication, how much a domestic fox costs,
S3E06.1 - Endangered Rescue (bonus interview) (opens the original)
Read excerpt
#EndangeredRescue #EndangeredSpecies #PuzzleGame #GenCon #BoardGames #Science Summary In this special just-in-time-for-GenCon bonus episode, we sit down with Marc Specter and Ace Ellett to talk about their "Endangered Rescue" puzzle game series, including both the Lemur Leaf Frog (which we played) and Chambered Nautilus (which is coming out as this drops). We talk about this series's origins as the hybrid of a traditional board game and one person's annual holiday gift, the challenges of meshing
S3E06 - The Royal Game of Ur (Ancient Games) (opens the original)
Read excerpt
#Archaeology #AncientGames #Ur #Senet #Mehen #BoardGames #Science Summary We're looking deep into history today as we talk about the oldest board game with a known ruleset: the Royal Game of Ur. Joining us is Dr. Walter Crist, an archaeologist and expert in ancient games. We cover ancient dice sets, the meanings of games, centuries-old games made with graffiti, how Walter and colleagues are using AI to decipher now-lost rulesets, and why you should play some ancient games. In addition to Ur, we
S3E05.6 - Microcosm Creator Interview (bonus) (opens the original)
Read excerpt
#Microcosm #Micobiology #MicrobialEcology #NutrientCycling #BoardGames #Science Summary As the last(?) entry in our surprisingly large amount of content in our summer "break", we have a short and sweet creator interview with Dr. Fatima Foflonker about her newly released game, Microcosm. This interview was grabbed by Brian at Momocon (Atlanta), and covers a quick introduction to nutrient cycling, the importance of microbes, and how she brought this pet pandemic project to reality. So settle in fo
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Not enough subject data for this period yet.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.