Persuasive Games

Persuasive Games is a video game developer founded by Ian Bogost, a professor at Georgia Tech, and Gerard LaFond in 2003. The company focuses on making advergames with strong opinions. Their first game, Howard Dean for Iowa is about trying to get Howard Dean to win the Iowa caucuses. They have also created the first computer game to be included as part of a newspaper's editorial, Food Import Folly for the New York Times. Other notable games are Disinfected!, a satire about a copy store, and Airport Security, a game about airport contraband.[1]

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References

  1. Ian Bogost on Persuasive Games
  2. Swine flu inspires online games
  3. Recession is latest focus of games for change