Dr. Evan Torner | The Sandbox.Space Weekly #119 (September 9th, 2026)
A hybrid episode featuring both Tom Allenbaugh and Evan Torner, covering a wide variety of topics from mobile app store policy, to how we define expectations around game genres.
Evan Torner (https://researchdirectory.uc.edu/p/torneren) is the Director of the Game Lab at the University of Cincinnati and an Associate Professor of German Studies, Film and Media Studies (with a focus on German Science Fiction), and Program Coordinator for Games and Animation. He's a passionate roleplayer and LARPer, as well as being one of the founding editors of the Analog Game Studies journal (https://escholarship.org/uc/analoggamestudies) and a long-time editor for the International Journal of Role-Playing (https://journals.uu.se/ijrp). You can find him most actively on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/guyintheblackhat.bsky.social)
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