
SGC18: Rich Metson - Data is your most powerful weapon
How can a moddable hacking game can be a tool for digital activism?
Rich Metson explores how videogames are the perfect medium for authentically exploring a political issue *with* your audience, and how you can build tools to facilitate this dialogue. After all, players who seek out games that are ‘about something’ are fairly likely to have something important to say about the subject themselves.
About Rich Metson:
Rich is co-founder of Semaeopus, a small but mighty, award winning indie games studio, named one of the CE50 Top 50 creative and innovative companies in England. Rich has a diverse background, having started out welding sculpture for world renowned artists he went on to work as a technical artist in Film and TV, as a freelance animator and Unity developer, and an assistant producer at BBC Worldwide Games. Rich has guest lectured at two of the UK’s top creative universities, Central Saint Martins and the National Film and Television School. His writing and commentary on politics, art and the future of videogames is published in the Computer Games Journal.
Video recording from Sweden Game Conference 2018, October 17-19, Arena Skövde
Organized by Sweden Game Arena
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