How Games Mean

Games are becoming more and more ambitious, influential and important. They are expanding their reach to a broader, mainstream audience and becoming more sophisticated technically and creatively. As a result, there’s a lot of interest among designers, critics, gamers, and the public at large in the question of whether, and how, games can be meaningful.

Can games games elevate us? Can they contribute something of genuine value to our lives? Can they speak to us about the world? And if so, do they do it in a way that is similar to that of other cultural forms such as music, theater, and literature, or do they do it in some unique way? In this talk Frank Lantz will examine some different ways of looking at this question in an attempt to better understand what games are and where they are going.

What:

How Games Mean

Where:

92YTribeca

200 Hudson St.

New York, NY 10013

When:

Friday, March 20th 2009, 8:00pm

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