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Question: When is a game not a “game”?
Answer: When it is a training ground for economics.
Last month saw the launch of Victoria 3.
Paradox Interactive’s latest grand strategy game is a sandbox economy builder with elements of diplomacy and war. You control a nation’s entire economy from production chains to taxation and trade.
Jake from Game Academy
Predicting zombie behaviour in Seven Days to Die, embracing the game mechanics of Age of Empires or refining decision-making in COD Warzone, these are all in a day’s work for London-based financial technology entrepreneur Juan Andrade.
“You need to let the world see what you’re capable of,” says Matthew Ricci, CEO of Zentech Corporation, a retail commerce company in Toronto, Canada. “And I think that by hiding it is the the worst thing ever.”
Matthew is a veteran player of EVE Online, the legendary space-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
Jake from Game Academy
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Part of my day-to-day work involves marketing. I, along with my bosses, come up with plans and strategies to grow our reach and spread the name of Game Academy.
Some of the best preparation I’ve had for this role comes from playing Crusader Kings 3.
Jake from Game Academy
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