Serious Games

[dr_tectonic]

Here I am in Washington D.C., attending the Serious Games Summit, and I can actually check my email *and* update my blog pretty easily. (Hi Monkey! Love you!)

The conference is AWESOME. Travel here was only enh, but the conference is GREAT. I have seen a bunch of fantastic talks, and met a bunch of interesting people, and have lots of neat ideas about projects and games, and stuff.

It's both strange and super-cool to be at a professional meeting where I know that everyone thinks games are a worthwhile endeavor. Most (American) adults think of games as being just for kids. Every single person here thinks they're cool and useful. There was a woman, fashionably dressed and attractive, playing her sleek black gameboy during a talk this morning. During discussions about work topics, people will also randomly recommend a new console title. Everyone recognizes names like James Ernest, GTA, and Neverwinter Nights.

This. ROCKS.

Comments

[kung-fu-monkey.livejournal.com]

Hi! Miss you! Be safe! Don't worry about me cause I'm not bitter that you are in an environment that has people taking games creation seriously and want to do more than just earn a paycheck all the while spreading good feelings to those that will receive the fruits of your labor though some of us didn't have nearly that experience actually working in the games industry under a certain company that sunk like a stone and caused me more bitterness than my working several years as management at a McDonalds under really sucky conditions because my boss didn't like me though I'm totally over that and now thinking happy thoughts and hoping you have fun while you're out there in gaming paradise and don't get hit by a truck on the way home.

Love!