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February 2, 2012 10:12 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Dns_HkYWwpA/ian-bogost-the-sarcastic-game.html
Ian Bogost: the sarcastic game dev and academic who gave us Cow Clicker
In Wired, Jason Tanz tells the bizarre, incredible tale of how Ian Bogost's satirical Facebook game "Cow Clicker" became an actual, successful game, despite being designed to show how incredibly stupid and pointless the FarmVille-style Facebook games of the day were. Cow Clicker stripped the FarmVille model to its barest bones: it presented you with [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Dns_HkYWwpA/ian-bogost-the-sarcastic-game.html
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