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Jack Emmert to Keynote Serious Games Summit

by Dhruin, 2006-10-03 22:38:00
News via TickerTech.com that Cryptic's Jack Emmert will keynote the Serious Games Summit:
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Jack Emmert, co-founder of Cryptic Studios and critically acclaimed game designer, will detail specific approaches game creators utilize in the MMO game space to foster collaborative and behavioral patterns in a keynote address at this year's Serious Games Summit D.C. (SGS D.C.). Emmert, currently spearheading development of Marvel Universe Online, the highly-anticipated MMO game based on Marvel Comics' superheroes, has long been a video game and comic book aficionado.

Whether the focus is on collaboration, leadership, or peer-to-peer education, researchers everywhere are documenting and discussing the social phenomenon of online games. Emmert's session, titled "Designing for Behavior in Massive Multiplayer Games," will explore many of the fascinating aspects of these games, including the user behaviors that take place inside hugely social online worlds. Emmert will offer audience members a better understanding of how game designers approach the social aspects of player-to-player interaction and production. He will also provide insight into the potential MMO environments have beyond entertainment, if the best ideas developed in commercial games are applied to the challenges faced in the outside world.

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