Date: 29 March 2023
Time: 17:00
Venue: Institute of Digital Games - University of Malta
Speaker: Prof. Akito Inoue
The Institute of Digital Games presents an open guest lecture with Prof. Akito Inoue from the Center for Game Studies, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto (Japan).
There are video games and some analog games that can inform us about social mechanisms and serious problems that exist in our society today. In this talk, Prof. Inoue will first discuss some games that have been released in the past decade or so that have triggered people to think about society. In addition, he discusses what is possible and what are the challenges of the game medium. Second, Prof. Inoue will report on games developed by himself. In particular, he will share with you the difficulties in creating games for the purpose of "consideration for society," which is his goal.
About Prof. Akito Inoue
Game researcher. Currently a lecturer at Ritsumeikan University. he worked as an assistant professor at GLOCOM, an international university, and as a specially-appointed associate professor at Kansai University before assuming his current position. He is currently writing a series of articles, "About Games as a Phenomenon without a Center," in which he discusses what the experience of games is all about. He is also involved in projects related to game archives and databases. He is the author of "Gamification" (NHK Publishing, 2012). He has developed several games, including "#denkimeter" (CEDEC AWARD, Game Design Category, Excellence Award), a power-saving game released at the time of the earthquake, and "Tragicomedy of the Commons" (19th Game Society of Japan Grand Prize).
More information about this Public Lecture and Registration is available online.