{"id":152,"date":"2009-03-28T15:40:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T19:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2009-03-28T15:40:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T19:40:20","slug":"gdc09-post-mcgonigal-reflections-and-graduate-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/28\/gdc09-post-mcgonigal-reflections-and-graduate-students\/","title":{"rendered":"GDC09: Post-McGonigal Reflections and Graduate Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jordan Lynn<\/a>, my graduate student and IGDA GDC Scholarship recipient<\/a>, and I were chatting after todays sessions. I had just come from Jane McGonigal’s GDC Education Summit keynote, where a question that Celia\u00a0Pearce asked had stuck with me. That question was, why haven’t developers made revolutionary designs that challenge, change, and shift human experience towards happiness? This is a 30 year old industry that is only now beginning to find its revolutionary and humanist side. What took so long if we are so cool?<\/p>\n

Jordan suggested, and it seemed to strike a chord, that the 30 year lag has something to do with that a generation of gamers are only now reaching points in their lives that they are capable of making games and have a drive or desire to change the world. There is certainly something to that argument. But even children’s books seek to change the world, so I only buy that half way. The other piece of this might be that because, at least traditionally, games require a fair number of people to make, that this can shift significantly the messages trying to be delivered. I don’t doubt that, but that hasn’t stopped Hollywood. So, I think the question still does stand, where are the Mark Twains of videogames?<\/p>\n

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More stuff…<\/p>\n

Learning to Make Your Own Reality – IGDA Education Keynote 2009<\/a><\/object>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
View more presentations<\/a> from avantgame<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jordan Lynn, my graduate student and IGDA GDC Scholarship recipient, and I were chatting after todays sessions. I had just come from Jane McGonigal’s GDC Education Summit keynote, where a question that Celia\u00a0Pearce asked had stuck with me. That question was, why haven’t developers made revolutionary designs that challenge, change, and shift human experience towards […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[90,111],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discontinutity","tag-gdc09","tag-igda-edu-sig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}