The State of the Industry at Edinburgh Interactive Fest

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday August 22, 2006 @05:15AM from the conveniently-close-to-scotch dept.

Next Generation is reporting on the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival, with several interesting articles dealing with talks and events. Margaret Robertson (editor of Edge Magazine) discussed the reality of emotion in games, saying that emotion comes from players and not developers. Brain Training was honored with the Edge Award, beating out some tough competition. Finally, EA's worldwide studios executive VP and COO David Gardner had a keynote with seven predictions for the future, discussing the lack of female gamers and the possibilities that user-created content offer.

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Exec at EA by kafka47 · 2006-08-22 06:19 · Score: 2, Insightful

I remember watching a panel debate featuring an EA vice-president-of-something-or-other asking developers things they could do to make games "more humourous".
My first thought was a time in BF1942 getting blown out of the sky, landing in my friend's jeep, surviving, and both of us driving off laughing hysterically.
Games can encourage humour, but the real funny stuff is within us, the players.
/K