games
I make videogames commercially, as well as in other contexts: pleasure, art, exhibition, or research.

Persuasive Games
The game studio I co-founded. We make games about social and political issues.

Cow Clicker
A Facebook Game about Facebook Games

A Slow Year
A chapbook of game poems for Atari VCS, PC, and Mac

Water Cooler Games
Videogames with an Agenda - website archive

Guru Meditation
A medititation game for Atari VCS and iPhone

A Television Simulator
CRT Emulation for the Atari VCS

Honorarium
An art game for EA's Sims Carnival

Cruel 2 B Kind
A big public game of benevolent assasination. Created with Jane McGonigal.

Sweaty Palms
A first date simulator. Distributed in vol 1 of the Independent Games Collection.

Selene
A game about lunar geology funded by NASA and created by my students

Student Atari Games
Games created for Atari VCS by students in my university classes

Videogames with an Agenda
An exhibition of political games

Horde of Directors
A game about corporate connectedness. Created with T. Michael Keesey.

Water Cooler Games
A news website about videogames with an agenda.
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Writing and Blog Posts
Art History of Games on YouTube
It's This for That
Two Books, One Summer
Persuasive Games in Paperback
Art History of Games: Video
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Jesse Fuchs on It's This for That
Mark Sample on Academic Mumblespeak
Ernest Adams on Academic Mumblespeak
Ernest Adams on Two Books, One Summer
Mark Mullen on Academic Mumblespeak
Art History of Games on YouTube
It's This for That
Two Books, One Summer
Persuasive Games in Paperback
Art History of Games: Video
Comments
Jesse Fuchs on It's This for That
Mark Sample on Academic Mumblespeak
Ernest Adams on Academic Mumblespeak
Ernest Adams on Two Books, One Summer
Mark Mullen on Academic Mumblespeak
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Cascading Failure
Top Ten Reasons I Returned My Kindle
Carrying On Over Carry-Ons
The Geek's Chihuahua
Reading Online Sucks
Chumby and the Rhetoric of Openness
A Professor's Impressions of Facebook
My Appearance on The Colbert Report
Bloomsday on Twitter
The Metaphysics Videogame
Cascading Failure
Top Ten Reasons I Returned My Kindle
Carrying On Over Carry-Ons
The Geek's Chihuahua
Reading Online Sucks
Chumby and the Rhetoric of Openness
A Professor's Impressions of Facebook
My Appearance on The Colbert Report
Bloomsday on Twitter






