I’m a passionate advocate of Serious Games. I’m not really keen of the term per se but the meaning and promise it carries matches my beliefs.
It took Lego almost 60 years (when Ole Kirk Christiansen first started creating wooden toys)to become a solid toy company. In 1916 these toys were seen as just vulgar artifacts. Nowadays parents refer to Legos like great tools for constructive learning.
Games also offer a great opportunity for the user to learn. We can’t promise WHAT exactly they will learn [since games deliver a extremely personal experience] but it foster a great deal of brain activity and research has evolved towards the proof of video games stimulating dopamine release.
Chris Brannigan’s Thinking Worlds moves us a step further towards technical independence to Serious Games development. It’s not perfect, yet, but one can already experience some evolution towards independent game production.
http://thinkingworlds.wordpress.com/
