Author:
Adrian Hon
Almost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create accountThe perfect last-minute gift
Audiobook credit bundles can be delivered instantly, given worldwide, and support local bookstores!
Start giftingLimited-time offer
Get two free audiobooks!
Now’s a great time to shop indie. When you start a new one credit per month membership supporting local bookstores with promo code SWITCH, we’ll give you two bonus audiobook credits at sign-up.
Sign up todayYou've Been Played
This audiobook uses AI narration.
We’re taking steps to make sure AI narration is transparent.
Learn moreHow games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation—and what we can do about it
Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber presents exhausted drivers with challenges to keep them driving. China scores its citizens so they behave well, and games with in-app purchases use achievements to empty your wallet.
Points, badges, and leaderboards are creeping into every aspect of modern life. In You’ve Been Played, game designer Adrian Hon delivers a blistering takedown of how corporations, schools, and governments use games and gamification as tools for profit and coercion. These are games that we often have no choice but to play, where losing has heavy penalties. You’ve Been Played is a scathing indictment of a tech-driven world that wants to convince us that misery is fun, and a call to arms for anyone who hopes to preserve their dignity and autonomy.
Adrian Hon is the CEO and founder of independent games developer Six to Start and the co-creator of Zombies, Run! He previously studied neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, and the University of California, San Diego. He lives in Edinburgh, UK.
Audiobook details
Narrator:
Damian Lynch
ISBN:
9781668611760
Length:
9 hours 49 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hachette Audio
Publication date:
September 20, 2022
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#39,052 Overall
Genre rank:
#1,525 in Business
Reviews
"You’ve Been Played is the urgent wake-up call we need to the dangers of the gamification run amok, where manipulation masquerades as fun and politics and profit are the only real winners. Essential reading for lovers of games, human freedom, and anyone who still believes that playing should be fun."—David Sax, bestselling author of The Revenge of Analog Expand reviews