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the game economy

Posted on November 19, 2020November 20, 2020 By sethgiddings

Video of my keynote talk ‘The game economy: designing for, and playing with, the digital era’, for ICOFEP 4: Economics, Finance and Management in…

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moments of voluptuous release

Posted on May 10, 2018May 10, 2018 By sethgiddings

[In early critical texts (mid to late 1980s) on the cultural economy of computer games] Fiske & Watts and Bernstein make reference to Roland…

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game tokens

Posted on November 16, 2016January 11, 2018 By sethgiddings

  Drawing after a photograph in a New Scientist article about the archaeological discovery in Turkey of game tokens from the early Bronze Age,…

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