See Games Differently
See Games Differently
Ian Bogost
Briefly: “Victory and defeat are just lies told out of two sides of the same mouth. This is the Blue Shell of collapse, the Blue Shell of financial crisis, the Blue Shell of the New Gilded Age.” That’s game designer/academic Ian Bogost on the most hated and feared pick-up in…
What do you think about when you think about poetry? Does a 1950s beatnik stereotype come into your head? Do you think of a smoky café where open-mike slams happen every Saturday night? Are memories of Pole Position summoned when you think of free verse?
You may have already read Leigh Alexander’s damn-near definitive recounting of Ian Bogost’s satirical Facebook game Cow Clicker right here at Kotaku. But all the same, the world could use another piece about the man and his work, especially if that piece is as clever as the one that Wired…
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