Art Game or Game Art?
Submitted by Steve on October 20, 2011
The latest post from Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer for the San Francisco conference blog covers a session on video game design that featured Alyce Myatt of the NEA and Jonathan Blow, an independent video game developer:
They say the fastest growing population of video game players are women over 60.
“Oh my God I’ll never get there!” a woman in the back of the room was clearly overwhelmed by the thought of disappointing her demographic.
“Well, that’s because you aren’t 60 yet,” Marian Godfrey, one of the organizers of “Don’t Get Pwnd! A Video-Gaming Salon For Grantmakers” held at the Grantmakers In The Arts 2011 Conference, smiled soothingly as we all collegially chuckled, relieved that we all had a little more time to spend with our Playstations. ”We’ll throw you a party in an arcade.