Tag: Ian Bogost

  • Corrupt SJW Games Media Illuminati Bookclub 2017

    Corrupt SJW Games Media Illuminati Bookclub 2017

    As we all know, literature is the enemy. Real games journalists can’t read, fool. Real games journalists scream at you to smash that marshallow-fellating like button until your mouse clicking finger dissolves in a haze of sizzling hot takes about how games companies – get this – occasionally make decisions based on their profitability. Boom. Corruption…

  • Universal Paperclips: Can Manipulative Mechanics Succeed As Commentary?

    Universal Paperclips: Can Manipulative Mechanics Succeed As Commentary?

    “Use neuro-resonant frequencies to influence consumer behaviour” I can’t tell you exactly how long I’d been clicking away at Frank Lantz’s browser-based stationery synthesis simulator Universal Paperclips when this box popped up. What had begun as a fairly benign experience suddenly went all Skynet, offering a hint of something infinity+1 more sinister than the minimalist monochrome…