Bio x Games: Is a Fun, Therapeutic Game Possible?
It’s a Bio+Health fund x Games fund crossover! Bio+Health general partner Vijay Pande discusses the overlap between games and bio with Games general partner Jon Lai.
Raising Health · Vijay Pande, Jon Lai, Olivia Webb
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Show Notes
Can a game be both fun and therapeutic? Vijay Pande, the first employee at Naughty Dog Software and a current Bio+Health general partner at a16z, joins Jon Lai, a Games general partner, and Olivia Webb, the editorial lead for Bio+Health at a16z, to discuss this question. We talk about what constitutes a game, how games and bio can intersect, and what we called the “healthy dessert” problem — the challenge of building a game that’s both fun and therapeutic.
Additional reading discussed during the episode:
- a16z general partner Chris Dixon’s essay “Strong and weak technologies”
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