Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 35 minutes ago
Adrian Hon, creator of award-winning alternate reality games such as Perplex City and We Tell Stories as well as the smash-hit running game Zombies, Run visited the NYU Game Center to talk about his latest book, You’ve Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All. If that title reminds you of a dystopian TV show like Black Mirror, you’re not far off—except that it’s non-fiction, looking into how tech companies, ride-sharing apps, warehouse employers, governments and schools are increasingly using scores, leaderboards, badges and other game-like tools to create incentives for behavior and punishments for falling short. Come hear Adrian discuss his “scathing indictment of a tech-driven world that wants to convince us that misery is fun, and a call to arms for anyone who hopes to preserve their dignity and autonomy” in conversation with Professor Eric Zimmerman.
This talk was streamed live at twitch.tv/NYUGameCenter on Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Splash music is Solace by Qix provided to us by Martin Nayeri qixx.bandcamp.com/releases
Adrian Hon, creator of award-winning alternate reality games such as Perplex City and We Tell Stories as well as the smash-hit running game Zombies, Run visited the NYU Game Center to talk about his latest book, You’ve Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All. If that title reminds you of a dystopian TV show like Black Mirror, you’re not far off—except that it’s non-fiction, looking into how tech companies, ride-sharing apps, warehouse employers, governments and schools are increasingly using scores, leaderboards, badges and other game-like tools to create incentives for behavior and punishments for falling short. Come hear Adrian discuss his “scathing indictment of a tech-driven world that wants to convince us that misery is fun, and a call to arms for anyone who hopes to preserve their dignity and autonomy” in conversation with Professor Eric Zimmerman.
This talk was streamed live at twitch.tv/NYUGameCenter on Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Splash music is Solace by Qix provided to us by Martin Nayeri qixx.bandcamp.com/releases
