Lecture 33: Ethics in Games

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MIT CMS.608 Game Design, Fall 2010 Instructors: Philip Tan, Jason Begy, Mia Consalvo (Comparative Media Studies) View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/cms-608-game-design-fall-2010/ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61_JVg12Ukxft03EJ7xxdbR Mia Consalvo asks students for examples illustrating how game designers construct ethical systems, how users act within those systems, and the role of community norms. How do players connect behavioral standards inside and outside the game world? Related Resources: Sicart, Miguel. "The Ethics of Game Design." Chapter 7 in The Ethics of Computer Games. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780262012652. Credits: The following content was removed from this lecture due to copyright restrictions. Please see: xCheezbrgr. "Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 – No Russian – Airport Mission Uncut – Veteran – High Quality." November 10, 2009. YouTube. Accessed on May 25, 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXBDkevx5lM License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments.

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