Game Changers: Video Games with Purpose

The videogame industry, now larger than the film and music industries combined, has a proven ability to challenge the status quo. Video gaming can put ethical dilemmas in the cross-hairs of philosophical thought. Games raise questions such as how should we be governed, and what does it mean to be a good or dutiful person? Games critic **Marijam Did** and game writier and designer **Daniel Griliopoulos** discuss how videogames can achieve egalitarian goals instead of fuelling hyper-materialist and reactionary agendas, and gaming’s huge influence can be harnessed for good.

**Marijam Did** is a Lithuanian-Tatar games industry critic dissecting the intersection between videogames and IRL politics. Her work has been published by the Guardian, VICE, GamesIndustry.biz, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and others. Marijam was a Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, and is currently a Senior Marketing Executive at a Bafta-winning videogames studio.

**Daniel Cohen Griliopoulos** designs and writes for games. He’s the co-author of Ten Things Videogames Can Teach You (Hachette, 2017.) Games he’s worked on include Nightingale, RimWorld, Total War: Warhammer III, ZEPHON, Endless Dungeon and many more. He writing can be found in The Guardian, The New Statesman, Eurogamer, and Edge.

Presented by Conway Hall.

This is an all ages event. Under 16's must be accompanied by an adult.