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76. Is Gaming Good for You?

People I (Mostly) Admire

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How Did You Make Games a Career?

How did you make games a career? A question that i feel lucky to be able to ask myself every day. When i showed up at u c berkeley in two thousand one to start a page d programme, i was actually planning to study how scientists communicate their research to the public. The first scientific journal, four game studies, was founded that year. So it was really a kind of freefor all wild west moment omlyhow can we study games? What should we be looking at? And i was really the first person to put my hand up and say, well, i want to study how playing games changes our sense of who we are,. what capable of and what challenges we

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