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January 19, 2008
Ken Levine, Stories matter...
Program of the 02/01/2008 session of the NYU Gaming Seminar. Starts at 1:00 pm.
WHO: The speakers are Ken Levine, creator of the game Bioshock and N'Gai Croal, journalist at Newsweek.
WHERE: Skirball Center for New Media, 9th floor, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 721 Broadway.
CONTACT: Jean-Marc Gauthier, jean-marc.gauthier@nyu.edu
Ken Levine, creator of Bioschok, is a founding member of, and creative
director at 2K Boston, formerly known as Irrational Games and now part of Take Two. BioShock one of the top game of 2007, is representative of the new generation of games with a focus on narratives. AP hailed the game "a first-person
shooter turned morality play, a thinking person's action game, a piece of electronic fiction with a soul. Review.
N'Gai Croal, general editor at Newsweek and technology writer, launched a videogame blog for Newsweek called "Level Up" that quickly became an industry must-read.
Posted by jean-marc at January 19, 2008 02:48 PM