Games for Change Festival

1979 Revolution creator and Grand Theft Auto veteran Navid Khonsari discusses the immense potential of connecting people through interaction and choice-making in games. In a digital landscape oversaturated by the messaging of empathy, games should ask people what they think instead of telling them. Using the recent groundbreaking release of 1979 Revolution as a case study, Khonsari unpacks a bold world vision, rewards, and pitfalls of making impact-forward, edgy, real stories into games.