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Ian Bogost
Bogost with an Atari VCS joystick
Occupation(s)
Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, co-founder of Persuasive Games
Website
www.bogost.com
Ian Bogost is an American academic and video game designer, most known for the game Cow Clicker. He holds a joint professorship at Washington University as director and professor of the Film and Media Studies program in Arts & Sciences and the McKelvey School of Engineering. He previously held a joint professorship in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and in Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Chair in Media Studies.
He is the author of Alien Phenomenology or What It's Like to be a Thing and Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism and Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames and the co-author of Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System and Newsgames: Journalism at Play. His Atari 2600 game, A Slow Year, won two awards, Vanguard and Virtuoso, at IndieCade 2010.[1] Bogost has released many other games, including Cow Clicker, a satire and critique of the influx of social network games. He is a frequent contributor to The Atlantic.[2]
^"IndieCade Award Winners". IndieCade. March 2013. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
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earlier versions of the AmigaOS operating system. In homage to this, IanBogost, founder of video game developer Persuasive Games, has developed the video...
games. For many years, Frasca also co-published Watercoolergames with IanBogost, a blog about serious games. Frasca was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, where...
Thompson, Hal Halpin, Doug Lowenstein, Jason Della Rocca, Jenova Chen, IanBogost, Tracy Fullerton, Brian Flemming, and the hosts of Free Talk Live. Arguments...
Media, and Communication) on April 23, 2010. This symposium was hosted by IanBogost and included Levi Bryant, Graham Harmon, Steven Shaviro, Hugh Crawford...
Best-Selling Atari 2600 Games". IGN. Retrieved March 25, 2017. Nick Montfort; IanBogost (January 9, 2009). Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System. MIT...
Dathon at El-Adrel". In examining this structure as a language basis, IanBogost wrote in The Atlantic that the language had been criticized as unsuited...
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experiencing the situation firsthand. According to newsgame developers IanBogost, Simon Ferrari and Bobby Schweizer, newsgames are a "body of work produced...
Retrieved 2008-08-17. "Genre information". MobyGames. Retrieved 2008-08-17. IanBogost (2007). Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames. MIT Press...
needed] An idle game in Facebook platform, called Cow Clicker (2010, by IanBogost), which according to the author is, "a satire and playable theory of social...
games is not equal to those in other forms. Writing for The Atlantic, IanBogost criticizes the environmental storytelling approach to narrative used in...
finalists, including individuals such as Jason Rohrer, Paolo Pedercini, IanBogost, and Daniel Benmergui. In the fourteen years since the award's debut,...
software. ... Besides that, a strong hobbyist platform would be amazing". IanBogost stated "the potential for improved educational game design is simply not...
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own story.". Moreover, according to academic and video game designer IanBogost video games can be much more than narrative media, by putting together...
the 49th coolest video game villain of all time. Game-studies scholar IanBogost described Nook as central to Animal Crossing's effective depiction of...
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