From Mass Effect to Dragon’s Den + Gretta + Kim Hansen and Kelly Wright + 011 Plus 7 Intelligence | How Games Impact People

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 


Links

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


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About +7 Intelligence

+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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