On today’s edition of BBC Radio 4’s Start The Week, Adam Rutherford looks at how video games now occupy a significant place in our daily lives, whether we acknowledge their importance and impact or not.
Today’s guests
Architect Sandra Youkhana co-authors Videogame Atlas in which she examines the real-world architectural theory that underpins games’ fantasy worlds, and their influence on concrete designs today.
Journalist Louise Blain hosts BBC Radio 3’s monthly Sound of Gaming, where she showcases the latest and best gaming soundtracks. Here. she explores how composers help create a game’s atmosphere and how music is integral to the game’s structure and design.
Adrian Hon, co-creator of the hit game Zombies and author of You’ve Been Played, is disillusioned with the way corporations, governments and schools use gamification to monitor and control behaviour and how game playing is used for profit and coercion.