Will Wright at BAFTA
Will Wright's speeches always leave me feeling equally exhilarated and confused. He manages to both tear down the walls of my current box and stir me to new ways of thinking.
It sounds like his latest speech, at BAFTA, was no different. In it he talks about programming for next generation systems, aka children.
As he points out, the thing developers should really be concerned with is the human experience and how it can be shaped by games.
Game developers are developing for two processors, and the human mind is the one we should be concerned with.
Basically what Wright is saying is that the kids who are growing up now virtually soaking in bandwidth and video games, are going to be much harder to create games for then my generation, which is still easily amused by the process, the idea of gaming.
I look at my 5-year-old son and see a person who finds video games as prevalent and mundane as I found radio and TV. Kinda frightening.
Will Wright Talk @ BAFTA [Functional Autonomy]
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