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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.
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Workshop on video game rhetoric
by Gonzalo Frasca October 23, 2003
categories: Game Design

As part of the Level Up conference in Utrecht, Holland, I will be hosting a workshop entitled “Games with strong opinions” on November 4, at 10.30 am. The workshop will deal with design techniques for conveying ideas with games (and videogames) as well as providing a set of theoretical tools for better understanding how we can use games to persuade, manipulate and communicate.