Games matter (E)
Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
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The Power of Feeling Lucky
Inventing the first generation of graphic adventure games on the computer meant that we had to teach people how to play these games. The slot machines are optimized to keep each individual going just to the point where they're ready to quit. After I left Spinnaker, I invented a game for an online service called Prodigy, which was the web before there was the web.
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