Entries from Open the Future tagged with 'Serious Games'
Melancholia, the Game
Plague, Inc., by Ndemic Creations, is an iDevice game* with a simple story: you're a plague, and your goal is to wipe out the human race. As you spread, you accumulate "DNA" points allowing you to mutate, taking on traits...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on September 24, 2012 2:44 PM
Tuesday Topsight, June 5, 2007
My month of travel is over, and I look forward to sleeping in my own bed. • Vote Early, Vote Often: I recorded my KQED Perspectives piece earlier today, and once again was told that I have a voice for...
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Posted by Jamais Cascio on June 5, 2007 8:36 PM
Rehearsing the Future
Never underestimate the power of a "do-over." Video gamers know exactly what I'm talking about: the ability to face a challenge over and over again, in most cases with a "reset" of the environment to the initial conditions of the...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on March 27, 2007 3:34 PM
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