July 27-29, 2012 • Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel
Preconference Courses: July 26-27, 2012 • Professional Members’ Forum: July 30, 2012
Code Hero: Games Make Humans Make Games
Alex Peake is the creator of Code Hero. He is the founder of Primer Labs and co-founder of HackTheFuture.org, San Francisco, California, USA
Code Hero is a game that teaches us how to make games that will teach everything else. In a world where we can code the games we wish to see, we have the power to make all knowledge playable. Games that teach and inspire can do more than gamify skill acquisition. Inspirational games can also help us role-play new career paths and discover new personal aspirations for ourselves. But there is one more thing that games can do that can shape our collective destiny, and that is to show us our future and how our life choices will shape it, driving us to take bigger risks to make a dent in the universe. The future we create depends on the courage of the questions we ask of ourselves and the roles we play on the world stage. The power to make the games we wish to play is the power to code the change we wish to see.
Participants should bring scenario ideas and/or a laptop and pre-install Unity from http://www.Unity3D.com and Code Hero from http://www.primerlabs.com or team up with others who have it.
Highlights
Participant will leave this session with an understanding of:
• How to write Javascript and make their own video game in Unity3D that explores a future scenario to give players aspirational choices with collective consequences that shape the future in a way that players can act upon, to live up to the outcome they've played.
- About WFS
- Resources
- Interact
- Build

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