What Is a Game?

Host Jason Michael Perry sits down with Frank J. Lee, Professor of Digital Media at Drexel University and the founding director of the Entrepreneurial Game Studio, to take a deceptively simple question seriously: what is a game? Frank is the cognitive psychologist who turned a 29-story Philadelphia skyscraper into the world's largest video game — Pong in 2013, Tetris in 2014, both Guinness World Records — and who has spent the last twenty years arguing that games are an art form, a story form, and one of the most underrated tools we have for understanding ourselves and the cities we live in. Podcast Notes & Links Drexel University — Frank J. Lee Faculty Page Drexel ExCITe Center — Entrepreneurial Game Studio Drexel News — Video Game Design Reaches New Heights in Skyscraper Games Technical.ly — Drexel's Open Data Game Wants to Make You Understand Philly's Neighborhoods Fortune — Netflix's Competition Isn't Sleep Anymore Interesting Engineering — Humanoid Robot Kicks Child in Stomach During Public Demo in China Subscribe & Contact Subscribe to the Thoughts on Tech & Things newsletter: jasonmperry.com/newsletter Send feedback, questions, or guest suggestions: jasonmperry.com/contact Credits Thanks to the team at WHYY in Philadelphia, our on-site audio engineer Diana Martinez, WYPR's Shania Mapson, and Myrna Martinez, Head of Operations and Marketing at PerryLabs.