What Is a Game?
What is a game, really?
Host Jason Michael Perry sits down with Frank J. Lee, Professor of Digital Media at Drexel University and the founding director of the Entrepreneurial Game Studio, to take that question seriously. Lee is the cognitive psychologist who turned a 29-story Philadelphia skyscraper into the world’s largest video game, playing Pong in 2013 and Tetris in 2014.
He spent the last twenty years arguing that games are an art form, a story form, and one of the most underrated tools we have for understanding ourselves and the cities we live in.
Podcast Notes & Links:
- Drexel University — Frank J. Lee Faculty Page
- Drexel ExCITe Center — Entrepreneurial Game Studio
- Drexel News — Video Game Design Reaches New Heights in Skyscraper Games
- Technical.ly — Drexel’s Open Data Game Wants to Make You Understand Philly’s Neighborhoods
- Fortune — Netflix’s Competition Isn’t Sleep Anymore
- Interesting Engineering — Humanoid Robot Kicks Child in Stomach During Public Demo in China
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Thanks to the team at WHYY in Philadelphia, our on-site audio engineer Diana Martinez, WYPR’s Shania Mapson, and Myrna Martinez, Head of Operations and Marketing at PerryLabs.