In recent weeks, Facebook has been sending emails imploring me to complete a survey about how they might improve their development platform. I'd been deleting the messages, but after the third request or so, I decided to click through.
Game designer Peter Molyneux is launching a series of video game experiments. The first one is called "Curiosity", and it has players chip away at a black cube to see the "truly amazing, absolutely unique" object inside. Molyneux is even offering a US$77,000 downloadable tool to help chip away at the cube.
Every day, more evidence that Ian Bogost's satirical game-turned-real-game-turned-ironic sensation Cow Clicker has become a bona fide sensation. Take the case of the startup "Wander," which has no real product or service… at all… and yet has registered over 10,000 users.
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You may have already read Leigh Alexander's damn-near definitive recounting of Ian Bogost's satirical Facebook game Cow Clicker right here at Kotaku. But all the same, the world could use another piece about the man and his work, especially if that piece is as clever as the one that Wired just ran.
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The past year has been one of the strangest ever in the life of game designer, lecturer and author Ian Bogost. It started with the launch of the most successful game he's ever developed, and ended with him bringing it to a strange, cathartic end.
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The Cow Clicker-ing community has been sent on a mission; discover the secrets of Cow ClickARG before the secrets discover you.
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Cow Clicker, the send-up of social gaming absurdity, has expanded its parody of all things Facebook with an application platform that offers "seamless bovine integration." Cow Clicker Blitz is a proof-of-concept of the robust leverages it can architect. Or something.
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Ian Bogost - video game academic, designer and one-time Kotaku guest editor - has just released the Shaun of the Dead of Facebook games.
