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Monday, August 21 • 12:00 - 13:00
From Aesthetics to Ethics - It's not 'Just a Game'

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Description:
When talking about ethics in game design we're not talking violence in games. We're talking about credible and consistent game worlds. The more detailed our game worlds become, the more the choice of aesthetics will create a game world able to form an ethical rule set out of its own inherent design rules: aesthetics create ethics. We as designers have to embrace this dynamic to design more satisfying, consistent and challenging game experiences. The talk will present the audience with a number of examples, where differences in the aesthetic choices created rather different ethical experiences.

Take Away
The audience will get an understanding of the connection and complexity between aesthetical decisions and their ethical consequences for the game world.

Audience Adressed: Designers (mech, gfx, sfx, story)
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Wolfgang Walk

Owner, Walk Game Productions
After a career as a student of many subjects and manager of a discotheque, Wolfgang Walk turned his hobby, computer games, into a profession in the mid-1990s and joined Blue Byte as a story designer and project manager. Since then, he has been trying to grasp what he is working on... Read More →

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avatar for Wolfgang Walk

Wolfgang Walk

Owner, Walk Game Productions
After a career as a student of many subjects and manager of a discotheque, Wolfgang Walk turned his hobby, computer games, into a profession in the mid-1990s and joined Blue Byte as a story designer and project manager. Since then, he has been trying to grasp what he is working on... Read More →

Monday August 21, 2017 12:00 - 13:00 CEST
[RSP] Channel 4 - Haunted House Stage 4th Floor CONGRESS CENTRE EAST Congress-Centrum Ost Koelnmesse Deutz-Mühlheimer Straße 51 D – 50679 Cologne
  Game Design   Story Design