PAX Prime 2015 – Sports are Games


Gaming livestreams are some of the most popular television programs in the US. There are entire TV networks covering gaming that have existed for decades. Yet, many self-described gamers will eschew football and ice hockey as being somehow distinct from DOTA 2 and CounterStrike. We even like to use the term eSport to separate them from sports. Sports and eSports are fundamentally the same. American football is frighteningly like a distributed turn-based strategy game.

Game Mechanics, Game Design, Spectator Design, the definition of the word Sport, and the future of eSports. Presented at the Penny Arcade Expo – Prime – Monday Aug 31 at 4:00pm in the Sphinx Theatre.

Panelists: Brandon “Rym” DeCoster [Podcaster, Website], Scott “Apreche” Rubin [Podcaster, Website]

Source: GeeknightsRym

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