Games and digital play has become a major form of past time activity within the modern society. As a dominant cultural phenomenon of the current era, games are also studied from the academic perspective. We know a lot about games, the game playing cultures, players and their motivations, histories of digital play as well as various other topics within the phenomenon. One angle has been under-represented: studying games as created.
What kind of principles game making follow and how should we study that? Game researcher Annakaisa Kultima will discuss her 10-year research on the creative processes of game developers and the changes within a decade of game making.