Tag Archives: Ian Bogost

Reviewing Reality is Broken, Jane McGonigal's manifesto of gaming for a better world, Ian Bogost realizes that he likes the messy, repellent, stunning reality we've got.

"App" isn't just a shortened word and a new slang term; it's a word for a shortened, slang application, says game designer and critic Ian Bogost. It's breaking the dominance of applications suites of old�and perhaps shattering the aesthetics of computing along the way.

Ian Bogost's retrofuturist art game A Slow Year explores the traditions and aesthetic possibilities of the medium.