Hacks Attends Games For Change Fest

Back in June we produced a couple of workshops at the Games For Change Festival in NYC led by the irrepressible Nick Fortugno, a game designer at Playmatics.

Nick gave an overview of game mechanics and game design and then challenged the filmmakers attending the workshop to create their own game prototypes using analogue tools like paper, dice and packs of cards. Lots of lightbulbs went off as everyone realized – the hard way - how games tell stories very differently to films and how hard it is to create a good game. Nick tried to make everyone feel better as they tried to explain the rules of the games they had created in just one hour: "Your first game prototypes will suck. But that's ok." 

Check out the above video to see how the workshops went.