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Paul Grabowicz

When Will Video Games Become Easy to Create?

When will we have a software program that makes it as easy to create a video game as iMovie makes creating a video? That's a question I've been asking myself a lot, as we prepare to launch our Remembering 7th Street video game project, something we've been working on for nearly three years. We hope that our re-creation of Oakland's old blues and jazz club scene might inspire local media companies to produce their own virtual world replications of aspects of a community's heritage. But to create a video game like ours would require several game programmers and a budget...

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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.

Hiroko Tabuchi
Journalism, Technology Starting to Add Up

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