Game On 2007: come and sit down and listen to…

You shan’t be considering a trip to the museum to be as boring as watching paint dry. Especially if the exhibit in question happens to be about the history and culture of videogaming, as the London Science Museum’s Game On Exhibition so proudly demonstrates (Well, those eggheads certainly got their heads in the game).

You might want to clear your schedules on these days, though, because the Science Museum will host these four wonderful people who will go on and talk about nothing but video games. The history of video games, the future of video games, making a video game, playing a video game. Not to mention all those playable demos of video games from the classics to the cutting-edge.

Yeah, and this writer thought his college lectures were always as exciting as watching paint dry. Here are the dates and the speakers for each outing, courtesy of the Science Museum’s press department – excusez moi while I go and reserve a couple of tickets to Heathrow…

16 January, 7:00pm-8:00pm
Why We Play Games?
Margaret Robertson, Edge magazine

Forty years ago, video games were played on large laboratory computers by a few scientists. Today they are a multi-billion-pound industry with millions of players worldwide. But what effects are games having on society and us? Join the editor of Edge magazine, Margaret Robertson, as she looks at this question and how the design of video games makes them such a popular and compulsive medium.

Okay, the schedules of the three other gaming eggheads are at the full article.

You shan’t be considering a trip to the museum to be as boring as watching paint dry. Especially if the exhibit in question happens to be about the history and culture of videogaming, as the London Science Museum’s Game On Exhibition so proudly demonstrates (Well, those eggheads certainly got their heads in the game).

You might want to clear your schedules on these days, though, because the Science Museum will host these four wonderful people who will go on and talk about nothing but video games. The history of video games, the future of video games, making a video game, playing a video game. Not to mention all those playable demos of video games from the classics to the cutting-edge.

Yeah, and this writer thought his college lectures were always as exciting as watching paint dry. Here are the dates and the speakers for each outing, courtesy of the Science Museum’s press department – excusez moi while I go and reserve a couple of tickets to Heathrow…

16 January, 7:00pm-8:00pm
Why We Play Games?
Margaret Robertson, Edge magazine

Forty years ago, video games were played on large laboratory computers by a few scientists. Today they are a multi-billion-pound industry with millions of players worldwide. But what effects are games having on society and us? Join the editor of Edge magazine, Margaret Robertson, as she looks at this question and how the design of video games makes them such a popular and compulsive medium.

22 January, 7:00pm-8:00pm
Video Games: Look of the future
Dr Chris Doran, Geomerics

Our computers and consoles have an amazing amount of processing power, creating realistic lighting, textures and characters. How is this done and are there limits to what can be re-created on a screen? Discover, with Dr Chris Doran of Geomerics, what the games of the future will look like.

2 February, 7:00–8:30
Games Gone By: A history of video games

Various Speakers from the International Game Developers Association

Most people think that video gaming starting in the 1970s and 1980s with classic games such as Pong, Space Invaders and Pac-Man, but the real story of video games goes back even further. Come along and discover the machines, the people and true stories behind the birth of the games industry as speakers from the International Game Developers Association delve deep into gaming’s past. (Please note that the Game On exhibition will close at 9:30pm not 9:00pm on this night.)

6 February, 7:00pm-8:00pm
Building a Computer Game
Jonathan Smith, TT Games

Modern video games aren’t made by just one person, but by large teams of artists, programmers and designers. Uncover the true story of their creation as Jonathan Smith of TT Games reveals the process and the people behind the Lego Star Wars series – from concept to shop shelf.