Game Design at Indiana

A promo about the Game Design program.

An Experiment with 575,000 Subjects

In a massive experiment on money, a virtual society seems to act like a real one.

Infiniverse Advisory Board

I was honored to join the Advisory Board of Infiniverse, an alternate-reality startup….

Why Do Games Have Gods?

“Why God?” is often asked about the real world. It seems like a hangover from our goat-herding days. How odd, then, that Gods are everywhere in fantasy worlds. Why?

Nonagon Games Advisory Board

I was honored to join the advisory board of Nonagon Games, a new…

10 Souls: A Theodicy Engine

If you created your own world, would you allow evil? Here’s a game that lets you try.

Games and the Future of Low-Skill Work

Within a generation, millions of low-income people will support themselves by playing games.

What is game design doing on campus?

Game design belongs at universities.

Games and Cancer

I was invited to introduce the film Thank You For Playing, a documentary…

Know Your Games

If you work on games, you ought to know them well. Tip: Play Dungeons and Dragons

Jane Austen

Strategies of husband-hunting in Regency England.

Climate Policy

Simulating policy responses to global warming.

The Game Design Major

Undergraduates at Indiana University can receive a Bachelor of Science degree in Game Design.

Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis

A primer in building and running your own digital economy. With Vili Lehdonvirta.

Wildcat Currency

Anybody can launch their own money.

Election 2012

Transforming a 1960 Kennedy-Nixon game into 2012 Obama-Romney.

Be a Gamer

A TED talk.

Online Behavior is Real

“Virtual economic behavior follows real-world patterns.”

Exodus

How migrations to online life will affect us all.

Big Games, Big Research

“While we might believe that society operates a certain way, and we might have small-scale experiments that support our beliefs, it has generally not been possible to observe whole societies under controlled conditions. Now, however…”