Session Information
| Title | Keynote - Meaningful Leverage: Breaking the System of Ignorance |
| Presenter(s) |
Her video game credits include DragonRealms, Shadowbane: The Lost Kingdom, GoPets: Vacation Island, Kung Fu Panda World, and FrontierVille. She writes for the award-winning online magazine The Escapist, and has had fiction and poetry in Asimov's Science Fiction, Electric Velocipede, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and more. In 2004 her blog on game industry working conditions, "ea_spouse", was covered by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and LA Times, and is now referenced in numerous game history and corporate history studies. Erin's games have won multiple awards and have been played by millions of kids and adults worldwide. She is multiethnic, with family names including Lee, Asakawa (yonsei), and Drake in addition to Hoffman. |
| Time | Thursday, October 16, 4:30p-5:30p |
| Location | Ballroom |
| Format | Keynote |
| Description | Game-literate communities are deeply familiar with mechanical loops and the way that actions in a game combine into systems. MMO gamers frequently discuss combat, crafting, and loot systems at incredible levels of detail, and yet, as a community, gaming has not succeeded in transferring that systems understanding to a meaningful critique and intervention in the systems of the world around us. Erin will discuss the unique leverage that video games have to break a system that is currently swallowing the US: a growing and self-reinforcing system of ignorance. |
Erin Hoffman is an author and video game designer. Erin Hoffman was born in San Diego and now lives in northern California, where she works as Game Design Lead at