Game Systems and Causes: Can We Create Change thru Role Playing Games?
#1 Thing You Need to Learn from This Post:
Game systems are moving from fantasy scenarios to real-life integration. This can change the game for cause leaders.
A More Detailed Exploration:
Seeing the forest from the trees is one thing leaders and innovators need to do. Watch this excerpt of the presentation made at the DICE 2010 conference by Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell.
He helps bring the geometric curve of change together in a presentation that explains how current game systems (think Farmville, Foursquare, and Nintendo Wii) and emerging technologies (Project Natal) have the potential for creating social change:
To paraphrase his closing statement:
The technology is there to influence people’s behavior in ways never before possible. Why can’t we use it to help improve people’s lives and better humanity? Who in this space will lead us to get there?
