I recently had the pleasure of being on a panel at Oz Comic-Con in Sydney, discussing ethical game development. The panel was dense with discussion, with a previous post covering the earlier part of the discussion whilst we pick up the latter half of the...
In late September last year, I had the pleasure of being part of a panel at Oz Comic Con Sydney, to discuss building games in an ethical manner - with a focus on positive outcomes. This was spurred on by games getting a particularly bad...
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