Podcast: Podcast

A Very Special Guest…

Andrew, a father of two and lifelong gamer, teams up with Brandon, a consumer psychologist and ex-pro video game coach, to cover video games, the way they are designed and how these design decisions impact the children that play them.

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Snapchat : Addictive and Dangerous

Andrew, a father of two and lifelong gamer, teams up with Brandon, a consumer psychologist and ex-pro video game coach, to cover video games, the way they are designed and how these design decisions impact the children that play them.

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Future of The Dopamine Slot Machine – and two requests!

Andrew, a father of two and lifelong gamer, teams up with Brandon, a consumer psychologist and ex-pro video game coach, to cover video games, the way they are designed and how these design decisions impact the children that play them. https://www.change.org/p/we-ask-our-prime-minister-to-request-an-urgent-review-of-mobile-phones-in-schools-guidance https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czdv3jq1pnyo

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What Regulators and Politicians Misunderstand about Video Games

Andrew, a father of two and lifelong gamer, teams up with Brandon, a consumer psychologist and ex-pro video game coach, to cover video games, the way they are designed and how these design decisions impact the children that play them. https://www.polygon.com/features/602800/gambling-video-games-balatro-luck-be-a-landlord

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Pokemon GO, a healthy mobile game?

Andrew, a father of two and lifelong gamer, teams up with Brandon, a consumer psychologist and ex-pro video game coach, to cover video games, the way they are designed and how these design decisions impact the children that play them..

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FIFA – Could it ‘kick’ start a Gambling Addiction?

Andrew, a father of two and lifelong gamer, teams up with Brandon, a consumer psychologist and ex-pro video game coach, to cover video games, the way they are designed and how these design decisions impact the children that play them. ‘The kids emptied our bank account playing Fifa’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48908766 Loot boxes: I blew my university…

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Games Your Kids Will Love (That You Will Too)

Andrew, a father of two and lifelong gamer, teams up with Brandon, a consumer psychologist and ex-pro video game coach, to cover video games, the way they are designed and how these design decisions impact the children that play them. In this solo episode, Andrew goes over a handful of positive examples of games, and…

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Digital Literacy Decoded

Andrew, a father of two and lifelong gamer, teams up with Brandon, a consumer psychologist and ex-pro video game coach, to cover video games, the way they are designed and how these design decisions impact the children that play them. In this solo episode, Andrew gives his view on the “digital literacy” argument that opponents…

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EdTech: Teaching Kids, or Training Users?

Andrew, a father of two and lifelong gamer, teams up with Brandon, a consumer psychologist and ex-pro video game coach, to cover video games, the way they are designed and how these design decisions impact the children that play them.

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