What will gaming look like in the future?

2021's spectacular rebranding of Facebook as Meta involves, among other things, the vision of a radically new way of experiencing videogames. Mark Zuckerberg sees a future where all digital play will happen in the Metaverse.

At the same time, new technologies like Blockchain Gaming claim to reinvent play by paying players, or, more precisely, make them shareholders in the games they are playing.

While it is impossible to say if these technologies will fundamentally change videogames, we might ask ourselves how gaming will look 10 years from now.

This lecture presents past developments and current hot topics, to make some predictions about what we can expect from videogames in the future. It touches not only on game design, but on technology, economy, and values of game development, inviting the audience to discuss their visions and predictions.

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