Deep Listens: Playing DOTA 2 Like a Girl and E-Sports

Deep Listens is a gaming podcast series I'm recording with a few of my friends. Every two weeks we pick and play a new game and then discuss it from a literary, philosophical, and game design perspective. Its kind of like a book club for videogames. We try to dig as deep as we can on an individual game every episode so check it out!

In this episode the Deep crew are joined by Elise "Hyasiance" Stevenson to talk about DOTA 2 and her awesome play like a girl experiment! Each of the regular podcast members discuss their experiences playing DOTA 2 while visibly and audibly female. Hya also explains the larger findings of her experiment and her own positive and negative experiences with the DOTA 2 community. We also discuss the e-sports community, DOTA 2's steep learning curve, and how DOTA 2 functions like a game of pickup basketball.

You can contribute to and read about Hya's play like a girl experiment here: http://altochicka.wix.com/playlikeagirl#!Read-about-Play-Like-a-Girl-phase-one/cjtn/83808D7A-6CD5-4B97-B549-6D1677127E49

http://deeplistens.libsyn.com/episode-9-playing-dota-2-like-a-girl-and-e-sports