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Episode 66 - Procedural Rhetoric

Psychology of Video Games Podcast

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The SimCity Effect

The game is based on a Boroditsky study looking at language that people use around crime. The goal was to create different sort of mechanical incentives that would then lead to, oh, this is obviously a version of this game where enforcement is the right move. It's basically trying to take that one little interaction from a game like SimCity or like the board game pandemic and try to isolate it as much as possible.

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