Serious Games Panel with area/code at MLS2009

This was first posted on the event site, infoneeds.org. Find more video and previous posts there. The event continues until this afternoon.

Last night, Kati London and Kevin Slavin of the serious game development firm area/code talked about how games can change how we live in the real world.

Kevin talked about the “fundamental cognitive shift” games have produced:

He also talked about the role of games in culture in response to an audience question:

and making games social:

Katie presented three projects addressing specific information needs, including this one, called “Ant City”:

And Kevin reminded everyone that games have to be fun:

What did you think about the panel?