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Week 4 Guest Speaker: Ian Verchere of Roadhouse Interactive

Ian Verchere who is co-founder and the Chief Creative of Roadhouse Interactive, a 50-person production and development company shaping the future of mobile, tablet and online games will be our guest next class.  Ian will share his views of  ongoing dialectic between creating and the law.Ian has been a great friend of the course, providing […]

Videogames and the Spirit of Capitalism

Videogames and the Spirit of Capitalism

This is a terrific talk Paolo Pedercini of Carnegie Mellon University gave remotely to Indicade East 2014. It is hugely thought provoking in its interpretation of games as rationalizations of capitalism. I don’t agree, hewing to Jung’s view of games (see Talk 1) as a way of being in touch with our instinctive self. Of […]