Ian Bogost is a
professor of game theory at Georgia Tech, a game designer, a
prolific writer, an entrepreneur, and a bit of a prankster. These roles which sometimes overlap, notably in his surprise success satirical Facebook game
Cow Clicker, which you can think of as the Anti-Zynga. Wired has a
fresh article up about Bogost (which cleverly embeds a sort of micro version of
Cow Clicker). It also mentions another game — my favorite of his projects — that should be on the mind of every TSA employee, the 2009 release
Jetset. Ask Ian about clicking cows, being an academic provocateur as well as a participant in the world of gaming, and breaking into the world of social gaming. (Please
break unrelated questions into multiple comments.)