behavioral design
Labubus, Loot Boxes and the Gamblification of Everything
From Labubus to loot boxes, gambling mechanics have escaped video games to colonize daily life—turning every transaction into a chance for excitement.
macroeconomics
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At last, a city-building game that allows for meaningful economic experimentation
We are all low-poly before God and the free market. Polynomics is about the latter case, though the distinction is far from precise. Slated for an initial release in early 2016, Polynomics is an economic simulator. You play as the federal government of an unnamed area, issuing a currency, collecting
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Paul Krugman delivers punches and ripostes in an arcade-style news game
In light of the recent imposition of capital controls in Greece and the looming prospect of a Grexit, now seems like as good a time as any to talk about economists punching one another. He has the mien of a vituperative hobgoblin Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, New York Times colum
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Steam’s economist now sits atop a steaming pile of Greek debt
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A brief introduction to dreidel hacking
Religious games sometimes call for intervention from the central bank.