Games for Change Festival

While the universal appeal of games may satisfy our innate desire to play, the powerful dynamics that govern our behavior within them is even more interesting than the play itself. As we broaden our understanding of the subtle mechanisms that govern deep focus and situational learning, how can we apply this knowledge beyond games to other social purpose? Join Christopher Weaver, founder of Bethesda Softworks, who now teaches engineering and computational media at MIT and Wesleyan, as he discusses how games work and why they are such potent tools in areas as disparate as military simulation, childhood education, and medicine.