{"podcast":{"title":"Paper Labyrinths","slug":"paper-labyrinths-7233051","podcast_index_feed_id":7233051,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/568595/rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/568595","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/7/0/8/f/708f553557359dc3d959afa2a1bf1c87/paper-cover.png","author":"Brendan McLeod","episode_count":18,"summary":"Paper Labyrinths is a podcast about overlapping disciplines of game design. Join Nic Tringali and Brendan McLeod as they have conversations with designers, artists, critics, and others whose work exists at the intersections of video games, analog games, and other forms of media.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-02T02:20:24.507425+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/paper-labyrinths-7233051"},"episode":{"title":"Non-Breaking Space on Artifacts & History","slug":"non-breaking-space-on-artifacts-history","published_at":"2026-01-01T13:48:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/paper-labyrinths-7233051/non-breaking-space-on-artifacts-history","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/paper-labyrinths-7233051","url":"https://9e037446-7433-497a-8be8-36a1ebb621d7.libsyn.com/non-breaking-space-on-artifacts-history","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/9e037446-7433-497a-8be8-36a1ebb621d7/labyrinth-011.mp3?dest-id=4918790","summary":"We talk with Non-Breaking Space about expressive play, mechanics of scale, hidden information, and librarians. Non-Breaking Space ( https://www.nbsp1618.games/ ) is the designer of Cross Bronx Expressway ( https://www.gmtgames.com/p-953-cross-bronx-expressway.aspx ), a competitive city-builder that simulates urban and societal development in the South Bronx between the years 1940 and 2000. He is also the designer of The Archivist's Dream ( www.nbsp1618.games/session/the-archivists-dream ), a hybrid RPG-megagame adaptation of Wehrlegig's John Company , a game about the rise and fall of the British East India company.) Listen to the episode of End Notes that Brendan mentions here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/endnotes-cross-bronx-expressway/id1840058034?i=1000726985016 --- Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali ( https://blog.enceledean.com/ ) and Brendan McLeod ( https://brendanmcleod.dev ) Our theme music is by Megan Carnes ( https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/ ) https://paperlabyrinths.com","meta_description":"We talk with Non-Breaking Space about expressive play, mechanics of scale, hidden information, and librarians. Non-Breaking Space ( https://www.nbsp1618.g…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3970,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/paper-labyrinths-7233051/episodes/non-breaking-space-on-artifacts-history/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/paper-labyrinths-7233051/non-breaking-space-on-artifacts-history.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}