![]() The Financial Times’ interest in games is part of a resurgence in the popularity and development of newsgames. While newsgames have been around since as early as 2001, the development of these games themselves is still far from becoming a mainstay of journalistic storytelling. ![]() ![]() Newsgames are a branch of “serious games,” or games that are built with purposes other than pure entertainment. The Uber Game was so successful that the Financial Times built a second newsgame, Dodging Trump’s Tariffs, earlier this year. David Blood, the game’s lead developer, said that the average time spent on the page was about 20 minutes, which was substantially longer than what most Financial Times interactives tend to receive, according to Blood. ![]() When the Financial Times released The Uber Game in 2017, the game immediately gained widespread popularity with more than 360,000 visits, rising up the ranks as the paper’s most popular interactive piece of the year. ![]()
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