"You get a cow. You can click on it. In six hours, you can click it again. Clicking earns you clicks." Such is the basic description of Cow Clicker, a new Facebook game that definitely delivers what ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Ian Bogost about data collected from Facebook-connected apps. In 2010, Bogost launched Cow Clicker, a parody game that inadvertently collected a lot of user information.

And I'm Melissa Block. Zynga is the company behind popular Facebook games like Farmville and Cityville. Over 200 million people play Zynga games each month. And before the end of the year, the company ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Cow Clicker, the send-up of social gaming absurdity, has expanded its parody of all things Facebook with an application platform that offers "seamless ...

The past year has been one of the strangest ever in the life of game designer, lecturer and author Ian Bogost. It started with the launch of the most successful game he’s ever developed, and ended ...

https://downloads.wired.com/podcasts/assets/Storyboard/Storyboard_072.mp3 Absurd? Sure, but the craziest thing about Cow Clicker was the user-response. Fifty-six ...

It is reasonable to assume that the most ironically successful sardonic game of 2010 is getting a sequel, and probably soon. If you make your way over to the official website for Cow Clicker, a game ...

Famed game scholar and designer (and satirist) Ian Bogost has taken the next logical step with the Cow Clicker franchise and released the Cow Clicker API. According to Bogost, developers can now use ...

A Facebook game about Facebook games was inevitable; Hence “Cow Clicker,” a spoof Facebook app created by game theorist Ian Bogost in an attempt to distill the appeal of Zynga games like FarmVille, ...

For a spell during 2010 and 2011, I was a virtual rancher of clickable cattle on Facebook. It feels like a long time ago. Obama was serving his first term as president. Google+ hadn’t arrived, let ...