From Mass Effect to Dragon’s Den + Gretta + Kim Hansen and Kelly Wright + 011

• 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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