6. “ Games are not just toys. If you look at how music, television and films have made sense of the complex issues of their times, it makes sense to do that with videogames.” - Peter Tamte, Atomic Games President CANCELLED
Our panel was tasked with answering the question: “How can companies, creative producers and developers prepare for a digital economy?” My answer is – with video games. This talk is about games in two ways. First, it’s about games as content – new things we can do in digital media, that we couldn’t do before the digital era. Games should be a major component of that. It’s also about games as content management. In the era of the fat data pipe – ubiquitous 100mbps connections, or fiber optic direct to your home – there will be a LOT of data floating around. I polled the room – of about 100 people in the audience, about 20 were tweeting, blogging, or taking digital pictures that they intended to post online. That’s a lot of information. And massively multiplayer games have some lessons for managing that information. But first, games as content.