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Kathleen Hansen

Playing the News Project Moving Forward

We haven't posted much until now because we've been busy getting the "beta" version of our game engine off the drawing board. We now have an initial build that Nora will demo at the ONA conference in a few days. After some serious brainstorming sessions with game designers, news professionals and people who actually play games, we have a good idea about the type of game environment we will be prototyping. We have some questions and comments for the others in the group who are also working on games and news applications and I'm sure we will have much more...

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Media companies been trying to use technology to build new audiences and business models for ages now. Feels like too little, too late.

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