In this recurring column, Leigh Alexander visits exciting new creative frontiers in the video game space, which is seeing a period of incredible growth and diversification, attracting new talent, and demonstrating intriguing innovation. Here she'll cover emerging artists, trends, and so much more.There are countless games about simulating careers. In a fascinating twist, simulating work—building, management, buying and selling—is among our favorite ways to play, when it comes to games. The distractionware era brought on by our idle-time second screens, Facebook and smartphone platforms have given rise to uncountable management sims: Build a town from scratch, run a restaurant, manage an apartment building, a hotel.
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