Game developer and academic Ian Bogost sees infinite potential in games. To him, they hold the ability to convey artistry or experiential learning beyond base-level enjoyment. His titles like Jetset (you’re a swamped TSA security worker!) or Disaffected! (a Kinko’s employee battling customers you can’t satisfy!) definitely fit the vision.
Cow Clicker was no different.
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DIY nuclear reactors, facial recognition technology for chimps and interviews with Monty Python actors, all in half an hour
On a jam-packed show this week, we’ll go behind-the-scenes of the BBC’s 1986 Domesday Project and speak to the man who led the project 25 years ago.
Liv and Nate also discuss the important and weird stories on Wired.co.uk this week, including Foxconn’s anti-suicide worker contracts, the new efforts to get university graduates into British start-ups and the man who built a five-inch stylus to strap to his face to help him use his iPhone more easily in the bath.
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On this episode of the Game|Life podcast, we discuss a pair of stories that point towards the brave new world of selling videogames.
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