Simon Nelson EIF Keynote, August2007

Slide 1: Public Service Play in a Multi- Platform World Simon Nelson Controller, Portfolio & Multi-Platform, BBC Vision

Slide 2: Past monopolies of attention

Slide 4: TV Consumption as viewers age… (hours per week) 26 Born in the 1960s & 24 1970s 22 20 Born in 18 1985 16 Born in 14 1989 12 10 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Age Source: Digital Homes Project analysis of BARB data, 1995 Q4 to 2006 Q4* (Up to 10 December 2006)

Slide 5: BBC loyalists?

Slide 6: We are not alone…

Slide 7: Games industry loyalists?

Slide 10: Broadening games to play

Slide 11: The BBC’s history in games

Slide 12: Ancient history “At one point Britain was the most computer literate country on Earth, mainly due to the vision of the BBC, the skill of Acorn and the creators of the BBC Micro” British games programmer in an interview for “State of Play”, BBC Internal Research Project 2004

Slide 14: CDX

Slide 18: = now?

Slide 19: Games Smashing Jaffa Orangey Bit Play

Slide 20: Games “Ludic Activity” Play

Slide 21: Frisbees?!?

Slide 22: A new approach: The playful web

Slide 23: The obligatory Facebook mention

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Slide 29: Games BBC-fueled “Ludic Activity” Play

Slide 30: Games from worlds/ Worlds from games

Slide 31: “Narratives are the constitutions of new worlds” - Brenda Laurel

Slide 32: “Any IP I’m involved in, I’m thinking about the gamespace.” - Jesse Alexander (Alias/Lost/Heroes)

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Slide 39: Signs of Life

Slide 40: Adventure Rock

Slide 42: Thank you questions...