Star, Kam (PlayGen), UK

Topic: "Sex, violence and alcohol abuse, tackling serious issues with serious games"
Panel Discussion: "Serious Games - USA meets Europe"

Kam Star is an industry recognised interactive media expert and award winning developer. Producing his first game in 1986, he studied Architecture and is deeply passionate about creating accessible and engaging games and simulations for learning and training.

Summary of presentation

Since 2001 PlayGen has developed serious games across many sectors on a wide range of topics from government policy to violent extremism, sexual behaviour, climate change, innovation management, nanotechnology, drink driving, money laundry, data security and much more. In this presentation Kam Star, PlayGen's founder focuses on a play based approach to tackling socially intractable issues and discusses how to use games to tackle serious subjects.