Interview: Jesse Schell on gaming, the social sciences, identity loss and behavioural shaping.

Grill — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:25:27 +0000

Previously Creative Director of the Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio, Jesse Schell thinks hard about the future of games; he's worked on Toontown Online and teaches game design at Carnegie Mellon university. You can see his amazing DICE talk on the future of gaming here. This interview was conducted for a PC Gamer piece on Social Gaming about a year ago. [more...]

The Money Farm

Grill — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:15:49 +0000

To the tune of: Money, Money – Cabaret

The Money Farm

Buy a PC Gamer-approved product every day this week and you get reward points. You’ve levelled up, now you’re a PCG Ambassador, so you get a PCG fan kit. Meanwhile, your health insurance is incentivising you to walk as it’s worried about your heart rate, and a tobacco firm is incentivising you not to read The Guardian because of its coverage of cancer risk. You get an achievement from the local council for not giving money to a tramp, and your eyetracking device is giving you bonus points for reading every line of an advert (but not the small print). It’s a nightmare and [more...]

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Interview: Jesse Schell on gaming, the social sciences, identity loss and behavioural shaping.

The Money Farm