Seven Questions for Nicolas Massi

Think games are fun? Think again. Such is the disclaimer-cum-slogan of Atlanta-based Persuasive Games, the four-year-old company behind such videogames as Points of Entry (in which players compete to award green cards under the merit-based evaluation system included in legislation recently debated in Congress) and Food Import Folly (in which players work as FDA inspectors to protect the country from contaminants in foreign food imports using extremely limited resources). Launching later this month is a game about the politics of nutrition (“Fit or Fat? Live or Die? You Decide.”)