Best Practices For Game Economy Design: GDC ’23

Best Practices for Game Economy Design Targeted to people with a little experience in in economy design who are looking for best practices before diving deeper.

2040: An American Insurgency

This game simulates an American civil war in the year 2040. There is also a free version suitable for classroom exercises.

Echoes of Purgatory in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands

I just published a paper in Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture (vol. 25, no. 4, Fall 2022). Sadly, it is behind a paywall. As religious ideas are increasingly marginalized in the real world, why do they keep showing up in video games?

Videogames and Violence: A Nothingburger

18 months of research finds no evidence that violent games cause social violence.

An Experiment with 575,000 Subjects

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