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\nGames should be able to do what all art does; help us understand ourselves and explore what it means to be human. <\/p>\n
\nGames should be able to do what all art does; help us understand ourselves and explore what it means to be human. <\/p>\n
Katherine Isbister<\/a> writes (in her wonderful primer, “How Games Move Us<\/a>“) that the uniquely interactive nature of games can act as a catalyst for generating complex emotions and that her goal as game developer and academic is “to grow the emotional palette of games as we know them”<\/em>. <\/p>\n As a design education it is our pleasure to give students the tools to express ideas through games, but how can we expand that emotional palette in practice<\/em>? Last year<\/a> we started a conversation about maturity in games and looked at a number of topics, including the difficulties in making emotional games within the constraints of the medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n This year we want to continue that conversation. We want to focus on concepts like emotional intelligence, empathy, social interaction, identity and all sorts of personal- and human interaction. How can we design for nuanced and deeper emotional experiences? Can interface- and input design form a shortcut to different emotional states? Elizabeth Sampat<\/a> has looked at games as engines of empathy<\/a>, we want to see what kinds of experience we can use them for.<\/p>\n So come and take part in this conversation. We want it to shape the games we can make tomorrow, and we\u2019d like you to be part of that! <\/p>\n Register your conference passes on our ti.to page!<\/a><\/p>\n * * *<\/strong><\/p>\n