Water Cooler Games served as the web's primary forum for "videogames with an agenda" — coverage of the uses of video games in advertising, politics, education, and other everyday activities, outside the sphere of entertainment.
The site was maintained at watercoolergames.org from 2003-2009, where it was edited by myself and Gonzalo Frasca. It is now archived here in full.
Last month, Steven Johnson was arguing in Slate that what was missing in the current US Presidential campaign was a videogame. The article was published during one of those sleepless days when Ian and myself, along with a terrific team of collaborators, where cranking out the Dean for Iowa game. I remember exchanging smileys through AIM with Ian, because the article came right on time (of course, back in those days, our game was still top secret and was not completed until a few weeks later). Certainly, Steven Johnson was right on track -and I think he still is, because there should be plenty more political games out there. This time it is the turn for Clive Thompson to continue Slate's coverage on this gamish Iowa campaign, by taking a closer look at our game.
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