Game On

I just finished listening to the podcast of CBC Radio's Spark, show # 108, from April 4th. The main feature was an interview with Jesse Schell about the current state of video (and other) games and the future of games. I found the interview very interesting and would recommend anyone even remotely curious about the topic of games to have a listen. You can hear the full interview by following a link here.

Jesse had a lot to say about various types of games, especially the ones many play on Facebook. He also had some comments about how businesses could make (or are already making) use of gaming psychology in their advertising.

I have to confess that I've never been much of a computer or video game aficionado. In fact, the only game I can recall playing much of was years ago on old Apple II computers, something called Loderunner. It had a joystick. Wow, eh?

The full interview is rather lengthy but it's worth having a listen, even if you do suffer from ADD. Try to focus for the 45 minutes that it takes ;-)