Jordan suggested, and it seemed to strike a chord, that the 30 year lag has something to do with that a generation of gamers are only now reaching points in their lives that they are capable of making games and have a drive or desire to change the world. There is certainly something to that argument. But even children’s books seek to change the world, so I only buy that half way. The other piece of this might be that because, at least traditionally, games require a fair number of people to make, that this can shift significantly the messages trying to be delivered. I don’t doubt that, but that hasn’t stopped Hollywood. So, I think the question still does stand, where are the Mark Twains of videogames?

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Of course this started somewhere, right? There were 6 “Bad” IPs and 6 “Good” IPs listed on a sheet at the front of the room, and tables rolled dice to determine who would design for which IP holder. I did manage to get Tyson Chicken onto the list of “bad” IPs, though I think difficult is a better description. The group with Tyson did manage to do some impressive design work. But, back to AIG. AIG was placed on the list of “bad” IPs for several reasons. This is what we managed to roll. Of course, we could have lampooned AIG, but that wasn’t the point. The point was to consider a difficult IP like AIG and create a game that they would actually want to be made. Out of this came myAIG and the myAIG Lifestyle. I’ll post scanned images of the documents we created and as much of the pitch I can recall next week.