The document discusses different perspectives on video games, including whether games should be fun, issues around censoring games versus other mediums, capturing difficult emotions through games, and the meaning and impact of playing and developing games. It also touches on topics like parody, conflict, learning through games, history, emotions, minimalist gaming, and communicating through games.

1. Må spill være gøy?
Linn Søvig

2. Endgame: Syria
Forbudt i Apple App store fordi:
Weviewappsdifferentthanbooks or songs, whichwe do not curate. Ifyouwant to criticize a
religion, write a book. Ifyouwant to describe sex, write a book or a song, or create a
medicalapp. It cangetcomplicated, butwe have decided to not allowcertainkindsofcontent in
theApp Store http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/15/apple-
want-to-criticize-religion-write-a-book-dont-

3. Endgame: Syria
Hvorfor er det ok å ikke sensurere bøker og
musikk, men spill?
Når er det for tidlig å ”leke” nyheter

4. Super ColombineMassacre
RPG

6. Galt, ekkelt eller brilliant?

7. BrendaBrathwaite
Train (or how I dumpedelectricity and learned to
love design)
Everyother medium captures and
expressesdifficultemotions
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1012259/Train-
%28or-How-I-Dumped

8. To play
”A freeactivity standing quiteconsciouslyoutside
”ordinary” life as being ”notserious”, but at the same
time absorbingtheplayerintensely and utterly. It is an
activityconnectedwith no material interest, and no
profitcan be gained by it. It proceedswithinitsown
proper boundatiresof time and spaceaccording to
fixedrules and in an orderlymanner. It
promotestheformationofsocialgroupings, which tend
to surroundthemselveswithsecrecy and to stress
theirdifference from thecommonworld by disguise or
othermeans.”
- Johann Huizinga ”Homo Ludens: A Study ofthe Play Element in
Culture” (1955)

9. Hva betyr det …
å spille?
å utvikle et dataspill?

10. Er dataspill …
en måte å være sosial med teknologi?
en ny form for dialog?
kommunikasjon?

11. Parodi
Jetset – a game for airports

12. Konflikt

13. Problemet med læring og
spill

14. Historie

15. Følelser

16. Minimalist Gaming

17. Hva vil du kommunisere?