A Thankful Post

While we are not recording a show this week, it is the U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving this week, we do want to take a minute to say thank you to all of our listeners and guests. Without each of you, this podcast would not be possible (well technically we could sit in a room or on Skype and record a conversation). Your input, feedback and support mean a lot to us. Each week that we hear from you via email, twitter, Facebook or even on this site, let’s us know that this podcast is worth while. it is in that spirit that we will be expanding our format to include more tech topics. While we still are big supports and fans of gamefication technology – it has become apparent that this may be too narrow of a niche. What do you think? Drop us a note and let us know.

Episode 128 – The Slow Grind


Uber announces their new credit card profiles, giving business users a reason to rejoice. An open source project tries to convert Civilizations to a budgeting game. And the Michael’s try their hands at a slow strategy game. All this and more are on this week’s episode of GamesAtWork.Biz!

Show Links:
Uber Duber
Civilized Budgets
Chore Wars
Plant Watering
SecurityNow – Episode 534
Auralux – The ultimate slow grind!
Charlie Brown – The Coasters

Episode 127 – Codin’ Games

The Michael’s look at some cool games we’ve found this week… CodinGames gets a big investment to help you learn how to program in many different languages. Plant Nanny helps you keep track how much water you are drinking. A new fingernail printer hopes to get more young girls interested in coding and the maker movement. And finally the MST3K team is back with a kickstarter to create new episodes.

Show Links:
Codin’ Game
Plant Nanny
Finger Nail printer
MST3K Kickstarter

Games we are playing:
Star Wars Uprising
Shooty Skies

Follow-up Links:
Download AppleTV Screen Saver for your Mac
ePredator’s Reconfigure Book

Episode 126 – Reconfigure

This week Michael R. is really excited to have long time friend and friend of the show Ian Hughes on the show. We talk about his new book “Reconfigure” – A techno-thriller about Roisin Kincade, a talented full stack programmer, who enters a brave new world after accidentally tweeting out a command… and the Twitterverse responds! This is a very fast paced read that addresses many of the thoughts and concepts we talk about here at Games At Work… And we’d love to hear your thoughts about it. Also, don’t forget to follow Ian on twitter at @epredator

Show Links:
Reconfigure
The Martian
Terminator Genisys
Amazon’s Physical Book Store