On a special milestone episode of Ludology, Gil Hova and Scott Rogers say goodbye to our beloved Emma Larkins, as she departs as a co-host after 50 amazing episodes. Geoff Engelstein drops by to check in on us. And we're also joined by new co-hosts Erica Bouyouris and Sen-Foong Lim!

SHOW NOTES

05m02s: Emma has earned quite a few awards for her game Abandon All Artichokes: the Golden Geek Light Game of the Year, the American Tabletop Award for Early Gamers, and yes, the Parent's Choice Silver Award.

07m25s: Here are Emma's favorite episodes:

• Ludology 247 - Orc-kay Computer with James Mendez Hodes
• Ludology 244 - Games Brought to Life with Jeeyon Shim (her Kickstarter for her new game The Shape of Shadows that Emma mentioned will be running for another week)
• Ludology 240 - Are You Receiving Me? with Adrienne Smith (a slight correction: Adrienne has won IFAF gold medals in international competitions, but has yet to win the Super Bowl)
• Ludology 233 - A Sporting Chance with Omari Akil
• Ludology 231 - STEAM Engine with Chidi Paige
• Ludology 228 - The Roles We Play with Banana Chan
• Ludology 214 - Escape From Reality with Hayley E.R. Cooper and Cameron Cooper of Strange Bird Immersive
• Ludology 212 - Inventing Play with Kim Vandenbrouke
• Ludology 203 - Winging It with Elizabeth Hargrave
• Ludology 209 - The 6 Zones of Play, a roundtable episode with Emma, Gil, and Scott.

15m06s: The two books Geoff mentions are Achievement Relocked: Loss Aversion and Game Design, and Game Production: Prototyping and Producing Your Board Game.

16m30s: More information about the Zenobia Award.

19m56s: Here's the most recent episode we did with Sen, Ludology 236 - Role With It.

20m38s: More information about the Meeple Syrup Show.

21m59s: "Jay" is Sen's longtime co-designer Jay Cormier. Jay joined Mike and Geoff in Ludology 134 - There's No "I" In Team. "Jessey" is game designer, developer, and Meeple Syrup co-host Jessey Wright. "Helaina" is Helaina Cappel, who runs publishing companies Burnt Island Games and Kids' Table Board Gaming. 

26m13s: "Daryl" is prolific game designer and former Meeple Syrup host Daryl Andrews. (The shout you hear in the background is one of Sen's sons playing Magic.)

31m41s: Here's Emma's streaming co-host Javion Smith.

32m10s: Here's Emma's list of games:

• Board Games
  • 7 Summits
  • One Deck Dungeon
  • War Chest
  • The Duke
  • Dune: Imperium
• Video Games
  • Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
  • Roundguard
  • Pawnbarian
  • Return of the Obra Dinn
  • Outside In
  • What the Golf?

41m06s: Renys is very much a Maine thing.

43m20s: Sue Grafton wrote the "alphabet mystery series" of detective novels featuring investigator Kinsey Millhone, starting with A is for Alibi and ending with Y is for Yesterday. She sadly never got to the last letter, passing away in 2017. Her daughter grafton-dies-best-selling-mystery-author.html"> said since Grafton never finished what was to be the final book in the series, Z is for Zero, and they did not wish to hire a ghostwriter, "as far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends at Y."

44m59s: Emma’s pen of choice, the Pilot Precise V5 Rollerball Extra Fine.

46m18s: Sen recommends jetpens.com for all your writing needs.

47m13s: Here's what we're all working on!

• Sen
  • My Singing Monsters: The Board Game
• Erica
  • Rat Queens: To the Slaughter
• Scott
  • Alien: Fate of the Nostromo
• Gil
  • The Rival Networks
  • Weird Stories (which now has a cover!)
  • rise-the-ultraplastic-edition.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders"> High Rise: Ultraplastic
• Geoff
  • Triumvir
  • Super-Skill Pinball: Ramp it Up
  • Nova League 
• Emma
  • Abandon All Artichokes on Tabletopia
  • Tea & Me

50m03s: Emma's Twitter, Twitch, and web site.