Slate Money - Money Talks: How to Make the Next Wordle
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🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
For this Money Talks, it’s all fun and games…and lots and lots of money. The Puzzmo game designer speaks with Felix Salmon about how to make addicting, viral pastimes that turn a profit. They discuss what made Wordle such a breakout hit, how to make games for both bad and good players, and the strained relationship between art and profit.
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| 0:15.4 | Hello and welcome to Money Talks from Slate Money. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios and this is the show |
| 0:18.8 | where I just talk to the most interesting people I know |
| 0:21.2 | and learn amazing, interesting things and kind of the most |
| 0:26.9 | interesting fun amazing person I know is that gauge. Zach welcome. Thank you. |
| 0:33.0 | It's very exciting to be on here. |
| 0:35.0 | It's super exciting and just introduce yourself because you are a |
| 0:40.0 | polymath of many amazingnesses, but just broadly speaking, who are you? |
| 0:45.4 | Ah, all right, I'm Jack Gage. I'm an artist and a game designer. I'm currently a co-founder of Pusmo which is sort of puzzle internet game company and I've been doing art and games and trying to help people become better problem solvers for like almost 15 years |
| 1:05.8 | now professionally and that's I guess me. |
| 1:09.0 | And you have designed some of the greatest games that I've ever played. We're going to talk about game |
| 1:14.5 | design and also the whole idea of games as a thing that you can actually be a |
| 1:19.2 | professional game designer and how the economics of games works. It's going to be awesome and |
| 1:24.5 | it's all coming up on money talks. |
| 1:30.3 | AI might be the most important innovation ever. It's storming every |
| 1:36.6 | industry with literally billions being invested, so buckle up. The problem is |
| 1:41.2 | that AI needs the right data and a lot of speed and processing power. |
| 1:45.0 | So how do you compete without costs spiraling out of control? |
| 1:48.0 | Time to upgrade to the next generation of the And Oracle Sovereign Cloud helps you address your requirements for location, access and data residency. |
| 2:05.8 | OCI provides blazing fast speeds for AI's demanding workloads and in the cloud when you pay by the minute, |
| 2:11.8 | speed matters. And of course, |
| 2:13.7 | course nobody does data better than Oracle. |
| 2:16.1 | If you want OCI to help you do more and spend less like Uber, |
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