[Australia] Panel on Games and War

[Malcolm Ryan]

For those of you who cannot make it to the Workshop next Monday, there will also be a public panel event in the evening. All welcome.

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Warfare, on one scale or another, has long been a common theme of games, from Chess and Go to Call of Duty and Civilisation. War is also common in other media, such as film and literature, yet rarely do we see games which call to question the morality of war in the manner of Apocalypse Now, Slaughterhouse-5 or Catch-22. Why does this gap exist? It is clear that people enjoy ethically challenging works; our struggle with moral ambiguity is what makes these titles great. Our games seem shallow in comparison. How do we change this?

Join us tonight as our panel of academics and professional designers discuss the question of designing meaningful war-games. Our guests include:

** Cory Davis, lead designer of Spec Ops: The Line

** Michał Drozdowski, lead designer of This War of Mine, 

** José Zagal, games scholar and editor of the Videogames Ethics Reader

Registration: $40 standard, $15 students

To register visit our Eventbrite page.
http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ethics-games-and-war-tickets-13861996605

This event is run in collaboration between Macquarie University and The Ethics Centre, and hosted by SAE Sydney.
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