See you at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco
Aside from meeting up with those we've become friends with since we began filming, we're also looking forward to meeting new people who can explain facets of the gaming culture, technology, and industry we've yet to capture. We have this thing about learning as much as we can, which was the main reason I sat down recently with Nick Yee and Neils Clark to try and sort out the "game addiction" issue. We scoured the DSM IV ("psychiatric bible") in the process, but never found the term in there.
At this point I'm eager to meet people involved in so-called "serious" game development. From what I've read there are some really fascinating things going on in VR research, and I'm particularly interested in therapeutic applications of the technology. I recently interviewed James Paul Gee, a linguistics professor who has written three books on the topic of how videogames recruit very powerful learning principles, and I agree with him - if we could figure out how to apply game principles to help motivate and enhance learning in academic settings schools could be transformed.
I don't think anyone would argue with that.
