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**Plus 7 Intelligence | How Games Impact People**

What happens when an entire generation of gamers enter the workforce, academia, and government? The world is undergoing an experiment. The implications are growing steadily and invisibly. +7 Intelligence is here to shed light on how the virtual and real worlds collide.

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Hurricane Week Check-in (Irma) Sep 09, 2017

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No new episode this week.

Hurricane Irma has required my full attention this week.

Just a brief check-in.

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Indie Games and Game Jams + Jupiter Hadley + 012 Sep 04, 2017

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I speak with Jupiter Hadley about the phenomenon of game jams and the world of indie games
Game Jams
How to get involved in making games
Awesome places to find indie games, like itch.io
How she has played more indie video games than anyone – but the Guinness World Book of Records won’t give her credit for it
How indie games can explore topics that AAA games can’t

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+7 Intelligence is the podcast about how games impact people.
Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.
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From Mass Effect to Dragon’s Den + Gretta + Kim Hansen and Kelly Wright + 011 Aug 28, 2017

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I speak with Kim Hansen and Kelly Wright, former game designers who have created a tech startup known as Gretta
How games are slightly more fun than computational linguistics
Their experience working on the Mass Effect series
Working on educational games
Why Myst is not the best model for a kids game
Working on UX for Eon Altar – which fuses tabletop role-playing with a couch co-op. Also smartphones.
Robot Round Robin – the gamified survey they use to test their speech-to-text algorithms
How games give inspiration and motivation for real life

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@MeetGretta on Twitter
Gretta
Robots Round Robin
A prototype of how Gretta will power up podcasts

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+7 Intelligence is the podcast about how games impact people.
Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.
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Apple Podcasts | Android | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Radiopublic

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The Journey of a Twitch Streamer + Shanna Zwart a.k.a ShannaNina + 010 Aug 21, 2017

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I speak with Shanna Zwart, also known as the Twitch Streamer Shannanina
We talk about her video game and music streaming career
Shanna’s history with video games
The personal connection that Shanna has about games and how they helped her through a difficult period of her life
How playing games online can either improve or hurt your friendships
Shannanina’s tough love advice for how to be a successful streamer
How Shanna’s experience going to school for game design (and dropping out) gave her a respect for indie game developers (Stardew valley)

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Shannanina’s Twitch Channel
@Shannanina on Twitter and Instagram
Shanna’s TEDx Talk

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Bonus Level! + Turn Life into a Game Part 2 + Habitica + Leslie + 009 Aug 17, 2017

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I speak with Leslie – one of the current operators of Habitica – the app that turns your life into a game
We talk about how Habitica has been helping people with everything from flossing to getting through med school
How we wish that we would spend as much time on ourselves as we do on our avatar
How games hold the key to so many productivity efforts: motivation
How Pokémon (aka Pokemon) and Dungeons & Dragons influenced the design of Habitica
How Habitica toes the line between being a game and being some that helps people be productive
The summer of Pokémon Go
How Habitica mixed the excitement of gaming and the open-source community with the goals of launching a successful and effective tool

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Turn Life into a Game + Habitica + Tyler Renelle + 008 Aug 14, 2017

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Tyler Renelle is the creator and co-founder of Habitica, an app that turns your everyday tasks and habits into a video gameWe talk about the road from an idea to the successful Kickstarter of HabiticaHabitica is very complex, but uses strategies form games to ease users into creating new habitsMany people claimed to hold the secret to effective habit-forming, but Habitica sampled from many different games to create something that fits a variety of peopleTyler turns a bad World of Warcraft habit into the catalyst for self-improvementGoogle Deepmind and the curious way that games play a role in human progressLinks

Habitica Google DeepMind How games spurred the invention of probability theory

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Games for Charity + Child’s Play + Travis Eriksen + 007 Aug 07, 2017

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+7 Talks with Travis Eriksen of the Gamer-founded charity, Child’s PlayWe talk about how Child’s Play was founded by gamers of Penny Arcade wanting to counter negative press with positive actionHow the most uninteresting game of all time is used to raise moneyChild’s Play donates games because the positive effects on mood, morale, confidence, and even because it reduces the need for pain medicationPlease consider donating to Child’s Play – if that’s not something you can do, then spread the word around.Links

Child’s Play Charity Home Page The Therapeutic Game Guide Donate to Child’s Play Snow World – pain reduction in VRDesert Bus-the most inoffensive video game of all time from Penn & TellerTiltify Penny Arcade EEDAR – the videogame database

Quora Session with Ches – taking questions until Wednesday 8/9, 4pm Eastern. That is when you will get to start seeing my responses. You can submit questions about the show and anything else you see fit!

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The Psychology of Games + Dr. Jamie Madigan + 006 Jul 31, 2017

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Dr. Jamie Madigan spreads awareness of what psychology can tell us about video games.How psychology plays a role in designing video games.How a study about memory explains the “one . . . more . . . turn . . . ” phenomenonHow the psychology of arousal might explain why you play games through the night.

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Designing Meaningful Games + Serenity Forge + Z Yang + 005 Jul 24, 2017

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Zhenghua Yang tells how video games helped him through a truly frightening part of his life – and now he creates them to bring meaning to people.Z talks about his first video game created at the age of 10, and now, his studio: Serenity Forge.5 areas where video games are transforming the future.The diverse ways that video games can bring meaning

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Serenity ForgeZ’s TEDx Talk: Video Games Saved my Life and How They Will Save Yours Mystic Melee Gone Home Luna’s Wandering Stars+++++++

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