Games can provide serious business lessons by understanding emotion. Well-designed games require order and effort from players, bring delight through creative play, and foster competition. Additionally, games encourage collaboration and nurture community, which should be considered key goals since people inherently want to feel nurtured. Games reveal how children's play is serious and formative.

1. Beyond fun:
serious lessons from games
for business
@TomChatfield

2. Mainframe computing

3. Personal computing

4. Intimate computing
My childhood…

5. Something for everyone

6. A good game is like a good joke...

7. ...you can’t fool your audience

8. It’s all about understanding
emotion

10. 1. Order & effort

11. 2. Delight & creation

12. 3. Competition
My childhood…

13. 4. Collaboration
My childhood…

14. Nurture is the killer app

15. Nurture is the killer app

16. ...and we all want to be nurtured

17. ...the games of children are not
games, and must be considered
as their most serious actions.
Montaigne

18. Thank you
@TomChatfield