Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 about Community and Gaming

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Tuesday 13th March 2012

• Gaming Tools Kids Want to Use

  by Alexander Repenning, David Gerding, Tamara Hudgins, Virginia Mcarthur and Ward Tisdale

  Limited choices exist when kids seek to author, not just play, their own video games. If video games are on track to topple film as the last big media mammoth, how can we build a video game workforce that we need? Instead of reinforcing the divide between artists and programmers, can we get more kids interested in learning the complex work that game development involves, and foster a really great game development community? What kids like to use for game development may surprise you. Come hear what they like, why the like it, and how new tools need to be built to meet the demands of future game developers. Join a conversation about authorship, identity, creativity, and the tools kids really use for developing serious and social games. Gain insight on elements of game tools that kids would use--if they existed!

  • Children
  • Community
  • Gaming
  • Identity

  At 9:30am to 10:30am, Tuesday 13th March

  In Classroom 203, AT&T Conference Center

  Coverage slide deck