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Fishpong to Break the Ice
by Ian Bogost November 20, 2004
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Social Games
Those wacky MIT Media Lab folks are at it again with Fishpong. It's a tabletop installation that responds to magnetically tagged cups to allow you to bounce fish around in a simulated aquarium. The purpose of the game is "stimulate informal computer-supported cooperative play (CSCP) in public spaces such as coffeehouses and cafés." For those of you who don't speak Abstractese, that means it's an "icebreaker game."
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