Words and Games

Books

The business and culture of online games.

Best Practices For Game Economy Design: GDC ’23

April 2023
Economics and Attention

April 2023
Academic Freedom Alliance

March 2023
2040: An American Insurgency

February 2023
Now Available: The Game About AA

December 2022
Echoes of Purgatory in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands

October 2022
Webinar on Virtual Economy Design

October 2022
Resist the urge to drop money on virtual real estate

April 2022
Wile E. Coyote and the Computationally Simulated Roadrunner

March 2022
Game of Life: Who Wins?

March 2022
Crypto Faces Large Political Risk

February 2022
Religion and Gaming

January 2022
Life is a Squid Game

October 2021
NINA Makes NFTs Valuable

September 2021
Why Gamification Fails: A Parable

March 2021
Life is a Game

September 2020
Announcing VIRUS: A Pandemic Disaster Response Simulation for 36-108 Players

April 2020
Videogames and Violence: A Nothingburger

December 2019
Past Glory

April 2019
The Future of Gaming: Your Data, Your Wallet

November 2018