Invited keynote by Federico Fasce at GALA Conference, Bucharest, Romania, July 2nd 2014.

1. BEYOND SE OUS GA S:
THE NEXT GENE ON OF
CU U L AR FA

2. Federico Fasce
Creative director
@kurai

5. Space
Outer Space

6. A GAME IS A SYSTEM
CAPABLE TO GENERATE
EMOTIONS THROUGH AGENCY
IN A RITUAL SPACE.

7. “Playful is the path to happiness.”

8. “With games, learning is the drug.”

9. Play -> Happiness
Game -> Learning

10. I DON’T E
SE OUS S.

11. QUIZZES

12. EDU ONAL NT CK
A NE C

14. CO SI ONS OF A
O SS OR A S LL.

17. PROTEUS, Ed Key, 2012

18. WAL SI R

19. “I didn’t play the game but I can
walk in a frigging forest if I
want to why should I try to it in
a computer game?”

20. ED KEY

22. SI ON.

24. SENS ON.

25. RELIVE, Studio Evil, TBR

26. SO “SE OUS” S,
YBE?

27. VESPER.5, Michael Brough, 2012

28. MICHAEL BROUGH

29. INCREDIPEDE, Colin Northway, 2012

30. COLIN NORTHWAY

31. DYS4IA, Anna Anthropy, 2012

32. ANNA ANTHROPY

33. GAMER MOM, Mordechai Buckman, 2012

34. MORDECHAI BUCKMAN

35. THAT DRAGON, CANCER, Ryan + Amy Green, TBR

36. THE GREEN FAMILY

37. CART LIFE, Richard Hofmeier , 2012

38. RICHARD HOFMEIER

39. LUXURIA SUPERBIA, Tale of Tales , 2013

40. SUNSET, Tale of Tales , TBR

41. MICHAËL SAMYN + AURIEA HARVEY

42. THE ARTIST IS PRESENT, Pippin Barr , 2012

43. PIPPIN BARR

44. PAPO & YO, Minority Media Inc., 2012

45. VANDER CABALLERO

46. PAPERS, PLEASE, Lucas Pope, 2012

47. LUCAS POPE

50. The next step of games for impact
doesn’t lie in some technological
advancement but rather, in
helping people to engage with
the practice of game design.
– Paolo Pedercini

52. MO O E S.

53. MO AR FA .

54. WANT B ER “SE OUS”
S?

55. Processing

56. Stencyl

57. Game Maker Studio

58. Unity

59. ENAB O E
EIR OWN
ONAL .

60. THAN !
http://urustar.net
federico@urustar.net
@kurai