games
I make videogames commercially, as well as in other contexts: pleasure, art, exhibition, or research.

Persuasive Games
The game studio I co-founded. We make games about social and political issues.

Cow Clicker
A Facebook Game about Facebook Games

A Slow Year
A chapbook of game poems for Atari VCS, PC, and Mac

Water Cooler Games
Videogames with an Agenda - website archive

Guru Meditation
A medititation game for Atari VCS and iPhone

A Television Simulator
CRT Emulation for the Atari VCS

Honorarium
An art game for EA's Sims Carnival

Cruel 2 B Kind
A big public game of benevolent assasination. Created with Jane McGonigal.

Sweaty Palms
A first date simulator. Distributed in vol 1 of the Independent Games Collection.

Selene
A game about lunar geology funded by NASA and created by my students

Student Atari Games
Games created for Atari VCS by students in my university classes

Videogames with an Agenda
An exhibition of political games

Horde of Directors
A game about corporate connectedness. Created with T. Michael Keesey.

Water Cooler Games
A news website about videogames with an agenda.
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Academic Professional Job Opening
Slashdot Q&A
The Bulldog and the Pegasus
Speculative Realism Aggregator Update
On Technical Agency and Procedural Rhetoric
Comments
Hipolito M. Wiseman on What is a Sports Videogame?
Gamification101 on Gamification is Bullshit
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What is a Game Bundle?
The Curse of Cow Clicker
Beyond the Elbow-Patched Playground
Low-Earth Lamentation
Shit Crayons
Aerotropolis
Against Aca-Fandom
There are no Blown Calls in Football
We Think in Public
What is Object-Oriented Ontology?
The Metaphysics Videogame
Cascading Failure
Top Ten Reasons I Returned My Kindle
Carrying On Over Carry-Ons
Reading Online Sucks
The Curse of Cow Clicker
Beyond the Elbow-Patched Playground
Low-Earth Lamentation
Shit Crayons
Aerotropolis
Against Aca-Fandom
There are no Blown Calls in Football
We Think in Public
What is Object-Oriented Ontology?
The Metaphysics Videogame
Cascading Failure
Top Ten Reasons I Returned My Kindle
Carrying On Over Carry-Ons
Reading Online Sucks







