Some trends will come and go and some will dominate the game industry for over a decade. What will be the next topic to discuss and which topics will keep us busy adapting? How do we know about these trends and who should keep an eye on them? In this talk, Annakaisa Kultima will open up the tentative results of the GN! Future Barometer 2023.
Annakaisa Kultima is a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, and an associate professor (Title of Docent) at the University of Lapland. She has been teaching and researching game design and development since 2006 in several universities in Finland and Sweden as well as traveled as a visiting lecturer around the world including universities in the US, China, Denmark, South Korea and Japan. Her research is concentrating on game development cultures, creativity, game industry trends, and game jams. Kultima’s PhD dissertation “Game Design Praxiology” examined the multitude of issues of understanding ‘games as created’ spanning a period of 2006-2016 with an ethnography of hundreds of game professionals. Annakaisa is an active member of the game ecosystem in Finland and internationally: she is working as a judge in several game competitions, consulting game companies and non-profit organizations, running and participating in game jams as well as curating exhibitions on games. She is also a member of the founding team of Dibner-awarded The Finnish Museum of Games and the co-founder of influential non-profit organization Finnish Game Jam. The latest addition to her work is the founding of the world’s first art gallery Kumma Gallery, which is dedicated to art games and all forms of playful and gameful art.