Episode 162 – Seeing is Believing

Michael and Michael are excited that it is that special time of year again, the one where you can buy Thin Mints, and Caramel deLites, and all manner of Girl Scout cookies.  And they are even more excited about the kickstarter game being developed by the Girl Scouts where the cookies take center stage, and the scouts learn all about the various development platforms: MIT’s Scratch, iOS & Android to create the game.  Nice touch, by the way, that the Kickstarter video uses virtual audio reality with positional sound. Turning from the savory to the visual, Michael and Michael discuss … Continue reading

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 http://media.blubrry.com/gamesatwork/gamesatwork.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Episode-128-Slow-Grind.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:38 — 16.4MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Podcast Index | Email … Continue reading

Episode 25 – Social Reciprocity

As the the day are getting shorter, and our day jobs are getting busier, the Michael’s have a lot of fun talking about the latest tech news and how it ties back to playing games at work. Michael R even gushes a bit about the possibilities of Microsoft’s Surface RT, and how well they presented it to the market on Thursday. While there was no Oprah moment at the announcement, there were multiple people who walked away with one. Links: Windows RT Announcement Apple’s iPad Kickstand Data Visualization Widgets Windows 8 is NOT Metro Bean Traders Awesome Coffee Visualization LinkedIn … Continue reading