Jason Rohrer

[7] In 2005 Jason Rohrer worked on a local currency, called North Country Notes (NCN), for Potsdam, New York.

[11] Rohrer has placed most of his creative work, like video games' source code and assets, into the public domain as he is a supporter of a copyright-less free distribution economy.

With this in mind he created a Minecraft mod, Chain World, that was put on a single USB flash drive, which he then passed to an audience member.

It refers to a diverse set of cultural influences ranging from the fiction of Borges to Black Magic; at the same time, it also engages pressing emotional, intellectual, philosophical, and social issues.

Rohrer's substantial recognition, which has included feature coverage in Wired, Esquire and The Wall Street Journal, as well as inclusion in MoMA's initial videogame acquisition, has been built on a singularly fascinating body of games.

Representing himself, he successfully argued that natural landscaping had environmental benefits, and that the mowing ordinance was being enforced on them "in a manner that violates the free speech, equal protection, and due process clauses of the United States and New York constitutions."

North Country Notes, a local currency proposed by Jason Rohrer (2005)
Jason Rohrer at the 2011 Game Developers Conference
"Diamond Trust of London" a crowdfunded Nintendo DS game by Jason Rohrer (2012)