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Ian Bogost
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Ian Bogost is an American academic and video game designer, director and professor at Washington University and author of books on games and media.
Biography
Ian Bogost is an American academic and video game designer. He holds a joint professorship at Washington University as director and professor of the Film and Media Studies program in Arts & Sciences and the McKelvey School of Engineering. He previously held a joint professorship in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and in Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Chair in Media Studies.
Bogost is the author of Alien Phenomenology or What It's Like to be a Thing; Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism; and Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames, and he co-authored Racing the Beam and Newsgames. His Atari 2600 game A Slow Year won Vanguard and Virtuoso awards at IndieCade 2010. He has released other games including Cow Clicker and is a frequent contributor to The Atlantic.
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Books by Ian Bogost
Play anything
Play Anything argues that ordinary life can be transformed into playful experience by discovering that games appeal because they set limitations. Bogost shows that accepting constraints, narrowing focus, and treating everyday tasks as opportunities for attention and devotion can produce meaning and joy.