{"id":5020,"date":"2010-11-12T20:29:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T01:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=5020"},"modified":"2010-11-15T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T20:16:10","slug":"bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=5020","title":{"rendered":"BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, at the NEoN Festival<\/a> in Dundee Scotland, I was interviewed by the BBC. The interviewer asked me a question about how the games industry can grow.<\/p>\n

I didn’t think I was prepared for such a question, but answering words seemed to tumble out of my mouth (for better or worse). I told him that the game industry needs to be ready for the emerging internet market, and that this market is increasingly going to mobile devices. I then said that mobile devices are rapidly going global. For example, many kids in Africa, who have no access to computers, nonetheless have cell phones.<\/p>\n

I told him that when those third world cell phones become interestingly powerful — as they soon will, thanks to Moore’s Law — the market for games will grow from mere millions to billions, and whoever is ready to seize that market is going to win big.<\/p>\n

It would be nice if that turns out to be right. Especially if you think games can be effective for education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, at the NEoN Festival in Dundee Scotland, I was interviewed by the BBC. The interviewer asked me a question about how the games industry can grow. I didn’t think I was prepared for such a question, but answering words seemed to tumble out of my mouth (for better or worse). I told him that … Continue reading “BBC”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5037,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions\/5037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}