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Pixel Therapy Pod

Pixel Therapy Pod is a monthly podcast and Let's Play YouTube Channel queering and transcending video games for all kinds of gamers. We believe that games can serve as tools for understanding ourselves, each other, and the world around us— and we want to celebrate gaming in its many contexts: as a hobby; as an art form; as therapy.

Learn more on https://www.pixeltherapypod.com/

Leisure Games Documentary Video Games Society & Culture
Update frequency
every 16 days
Average duration
89 minutes
Episodes
94
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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Embedding Values into AI and Finding Focus in Gaming with Wells Santo

Embedding Values into AI and Finding Focus in Gaming with Wells Santo

Welcome to our 50th episode! Whaaaaat? Thanks for spending two years and countless hours talking games and being gay with us. This week, Spencer and Jamie dive into the delightfully devilish Cult of …

01:21:36  |   Tue 30 Aug 2022
Indigenous Cyber Noir in Hill Agency: PURITYdecay with Achimostawinan Games

Indigenous Cyber Noir in Hill Agency: PURITYdecay with Achimostawinan Games

Hey gamers! This week, Spencer and Jamie play everyone's favorite kitty cat game -- BlueTwelve and Annapurrna Interactive's blockbuster cat adventure platformer, STRAY! Also, because she's an overach…

01:47:36  |   Tue 09 Aug 2022
Stories as Safe Havens and Jet Set Radio Future with YA Thriller Author K. Ancrum

Stories as Safe Havens and Jet Set Radio Future with YA Thriller Author K. Ancrum

Hey gamers! It's grab the Nintendo Switch and flop on the bed by the air conditioner weather, and we're ready to get in our feelings! After 90+ hours with just ONE storyline in Fire Emblem: Three Hou…

01:39:47  |   Tue 19 Jul 2022
Thirsty Sword Lesbians and Creating an Aesthetic of Emotion with April Kit Walsh

Thirsty Sword Lesbians and Creating an Aesthetic of Emotion with April Kit Walsh

Sup y'all, we're clinging to spots of joy in this burning world! This week, Spencer hosts tea parties and finds their footing as a magical warrior professor in Intelligent Systems and Koei Tecmo's Fi…

01:33:44  |   Tue 28 Jun 2022
The Strategic Satisfaction of FPS and Games as Connection with Ace aka A_TypicalQueer

The Strategic Satisfaction of FPS and Games as Connection with Ace aka A_TypicalQueer

'Sup, gaymers and theymers? This week, Spencer and Jamie dust off their Nintendo Switches and kick off Wrath Month! Join us as we explore Spencer's extremely late arrival to Sid Meier's Civilization …

01:29:11  |   Tue 14 Jun 2022
Unmasking Autism and Embracing Your Inner Alien Prince with Devon Price

Unmasking Autism and Embracing Your Inner Alien Prince with Devon Price

This week, Spencer toils in a mine for fun and lives to tell the tale - and rolls merrily along in Lovable Hat Cult's Journey of the Broken Circle. Then Jamie shares her experiences with Lego Builder…

01:33:04  |   Tue 24 May 2022
How Citizen Sleeper Sows Hope at the Edge of Space and Knowing Your Nos with Kortney Terry

How Citizen Sleeper Sows Hope at the Edge of Space and Knowing Your Nos with Kortney Terry

It's time to find your place in space and join the big, beautiful, worker-owned rotating city in the sky! We're talking about developer Jump Over the Age's Citizen Sleeper of course, a cyberpunk narr…

01:31:38  |   Tue 10 May 2022
Space Lesbians: The Horizon Forbidden West Spoilercast

Space Lesbians: The Horizon Forbidden West Spoilercast

Welcome to the first official Pixel Therapy Spoilercast! Join us as we dive into every aspect of Horizon Forbidden West that we didn't or couldn't cover in our normal episodes!

0:54 - Intro

10:12 - St…

01:15:05  |   Fri 22 Apr 2022
NORCO's Beautiful F-You to the Universe and the Optional Queer Content Problem with Vaneet Mehta

NORCO's Beautiful F-You to the Universe and the Optional Queer Content Problem with Vaneet Mehta

NORCO: It's the game you can smell! Join us as we wade into the murky waters of Geography of Robots' completely singular Southern Gothic sci-fi point-and-click detective adventure, set among the bill…

01:49:41  |   Tue 19 Apr 2022
Elden Ring's Siren Song and Creating for Panic's Playdate with Rokashi

Elden Ring's Siren Song and Creating for Panic's Playdate with Rokashi

Rise, ye tarnished! This week, Spencer and Jamie explore the game that seems to have sucked in everyone and their grandma (if their grandma is a badass) -- Hidetaka Miyazaki and From Software's ELDE…

01:51:12  |   Tue 05 Apr 2022
Thirsty NPCs in Horizon Forbidden West and Sensory-Friendly Streaming with Queerlybee

Thirsty NPCs in Horizon Forbidden West and Sensory-Friendly Streaming with Queerlybee

This week, a game so nice we had to cover it twice: Horizon Forbidden West! Now that your cohosts have each had 60+ hours with Aloy, join us as we take a closer look at human and machine battle mecha…

01:49:59  |   Tue 22 Mar 2022
Keeping Empathy at the Core of Gaming Spaces with Community/DEI Director Raccine Malcolm

Keeping Empathy at the Core of Gaming Spaces with Community/DEI Director Raccine Malcolm

Note: Spoilers for A Musical Story from 57:51 - 1:09:37!

It's March, and ALL OF THE GAMES are out. Spencer and Jamie have barely scratched the surface of Horizon Forbidden West's truly epic proportion…

01:58:28  |   Tue 08 Mar 2022
How a Real-Life Celeste is Reaching New Heights for Trans Rights with Erin Parisi

How a Real-Life Celeste is Reaching New Heights for Trans Rights with Erin Parisi

Happy Tuesday, and thanks for tearing yourself away from Horizon Forbidden West long enough to get cozy and chat games with us! This week Spencer and Jamie kick things off with GoodbyeWorld Games' Be…

01:26:57  |   Tue 22 Feb 2022
On 'Into the Spine' and Persona 5 with Fanbyte's Diego Argüello

On 'Into the Spine' and Persona 5 with Fanbyte's Diego Argüello

Happy love month, Gamentines! That works, right? No? Well, moving on. This week Spencer is super late to the party - Night School Studio's 2019 Afterparty, to be specific: a neon-soaked bar hop throu…

01:31:29  |   Tue 08 Feb 2022
The Effectiveness of Spite and the Allure of Vampyr with Uppercut's Ty Galiz-Rowe

The Effectiveness of Spite and the Allure of Vampyr with Uppercut's Ty Galiz-Rowe

Now is the winter of our gaming discontent, it seems, but so many exciting things are happening and will continue to happen, friends! Why, just now Spencer's willingly playing a hack-and-slash dungeo…

01:15:49  |   Tue 25 Jan 2022
We Accidentally Made a Twilight Episode with Rocket Adrift's Lindsay Rollins

We Accidentally Made a Twilight Episode with Rocket Adrift's Lindsay Rollins

We're back from our little winter break and ready to talk games! To kick things off, Spencer shares their begrudging enjoyment of Netflix's The Witcher (in no small part thanks to Henry Cavill's gruf…

01:43:00  |   Tue 11 Jan 2022
Pixel Therapy's Games of the Year 2021

Pixel Therapy's Games of the Year 2021

Thanks for another great year of sharing stories, leveling up, and discovering ourselves in games! Spencer and Jamie cap the year with a new crop of completely unofficial awards, from Jamie's Game Th…

01:22:45  |   Tue 21 Dec 2021
Unpacking a Big Box of Feelings with KO_OP's Community Manager Marcela Huerta

Unpacking a Big Box of Feelings with KO_OP's Community Manager Marcela Huerta

Good...morning? Night? Who knows, it's dark when we wake up and dark before the workday is over. Perfect weather for gaming though, wouldn't you say? Spencer and Jamie kick things off by hopping on o…

01:35:07  |   Tue 07 Dec 2021
Trauma-Informed Gaming and the Divine Collective Dream of Hatsune Miku with Aiden Strawhun

Trauma-Informed Gaming and the Divine Collective Dream of Hatsune Miku with Aiden Strawhun

29:11 - SPOILERS for Inscryption start

47:53 - End SPOILERS for Inscryption

We foolishly thought this year in gaming was winding to a close. We were boarding up our Xboxes, winterizing our PCs, putting…

01:38:47  |   Tue 23 Nov 2021
Reclaiming Narratives and Centering Community in Never Alone with Charitie Ropati

Reclaiming Narratives and Centering Community in Never Alone with Charitie Ropati

Mix up your mulled cider and grab a fuzzy blanket - it's time to get cozy and grab your bi-weekly dose of Pixel Therapy! This week, Spencer takes their maiden voyage with their new gaming computer an…

01:29:14  |   Tue 09 Nov 2021
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