Choose Your Character (exploring Identity Through Video Games)

The mobile game mini-season concludes with Emily’s pick, the fast-paced cooking game Cooking Craze. Beth, Emily, and Ash discuss the game and how it related to the satisfying sensation of “efficiency porn”; the statisfaction one experiences when seeing a task being done with efficiency, grace and speed. In this second season, the ladies discuss some […]

Beth, Emily & Ash discuss the affects of instant gratification in their new lives in the bucolic splendor that is Stardew Valley. Is patience virtue, and if so does it matter? In this second season, the ladies discuss some of their favorite mobile games. Check out the episodes from the first sseason! Choose Your Character […]

We kick off our mini season on mobile games with Beth’s favorite, Choices: Stories You Play; where Beth, Emily and Ash learn that one choice can change everything. Check out the episodes from our first sseason! Choose Your Character is produced by Beth Casey, Emily Asaro, Ashtyn Davis & Kent M. Wilhelm and is part […]

On the finale of our inagural season, Beth, Emily & Ashtyn take a look at the enormously popular sequel Red Dead Redemption 2 from Rockstar Games through the lens of the Asch Paradigm, a series of studies that explored if and how people agree with or defy the majority of their group. Thank you all […]

Human experience is inevitable filled with anxiety, pain, loss, and destruction as is the experience of playing through The Last of Us. Beth, Emily & Ashtyn discuss the poignant journey of Joel and Ellie accross a post-apocalyptic United States. Season 1 Episode 7 Follow Choose Your Character on Twitter Follow Choose Your Character on Instagram […]

Beth, Emily & Ash discuss “The Trolley Problem” and it’s place in the Square Enix graphic adventure Life Is Strange as well as the game’s effective emphasis on the reality of adolescent life. With fate in your hands, who do you save? The many or the few? We found out it depends who the few […]

Beth, Emily & Ash explore psychological inheritance and how it pertains to What Remains of Edith Finch. They discuss what gets passed down through their families and the role it plays in their lives now. They also talk about what is fate and what is the curse that plagues the game’s family. Season 1 Episode […]

Beth, Emily & Ash choose their own adventure in the butterfly effect, horror, adventure game, Until Dawn. With voices by stars like Hayden Panettiere and the Oscar winning Rami Malek your hosts discuss the choices they made and how it affected their gameplay. Also, Emily shares a reading of a tasty Until Dawn fan-fic. Season […]

Beth, Emily and Ash load up the choice reliant, android having world of Detroit: Become Human (2017). Season 1 Episode 3 Follow Choose Your Character on Twitter Follow Choose Your Character on Instagram Help support our independent podcast network by shopping on Amazon using our referral link or make a donation. Support independent media!

Beth, Emily & Ash get into the long running fight franchise, Soulcalibur. The gals discuss wanting to be good at something, being good at it and wanting people to see you be good at it. With the series being Emily’s favorite, she takes the opportunity to really peacock sharing her “hate blanket” and “pocket of […]

In the inagural episode of Choose Your Character Beth, Emily & Ashtyn discuss the long-running, playing god franchise The SIMS. Follow Choose Your Character on Twitter Follow Choose Your Character on Instagram

Choose Your Character is a podcast that explores identity through video games. Each episode, hosts Beth Casey, Emily Asaro and Ashtyn Davis explore a different video game and discuss what the characters and choices reveal about themselves. Subscribe now!