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I'm a game designer, author, and former CEO and founder of Six to Start. While at Six to Start, I co-created Zombies, Run! (the world's bestselling smartphone fitness game, with over ten million players), designed Marvel Move, won Best of Show at SXSW, and worked on multiple projects with Disney Imagineering.

My latest book is You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All, which The New York Times called "illuminating and persuasive". I also wrote the sci-fi novel A History of the Future in 100 Objects, which Stewart Brand called "the right way to think about the future".

My next book is The Age of Immersion: Make-Believe Worlds from Medieval Cathedrals to the Las Vegas Sphere.

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	You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All 3.75 avg rating — 311 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Just tremendous, easily the equal of Le Guin's Always Coming Home or Calvino's Invisible Cities or anything from Stanislaw Lem – as incisive and imaginative and funny and caring as stories can be, and so touching I cried. ...more
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It seems to be that Rebecca Perry's very good MAY WE FEED THE KING is as duplicitous as its scheming courtiers. While Perry suggests her modern-day curator doesn't want to "create a definitive story" of a historical king through immersive set design, ...more
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