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Legislative Design
by Ian Bogost February 9, 2004

Wired reports on virtual world game designers helping design the new eRegulations government project on legislation crafting. From the article, "the government and the gaming industry both rely on a similar method of soliciting comments." This collaboration apparently came out of an offshoot of the State of Play conference at NYU late last year.