Professor Ramiro Corbetta is a game developer and educator who has worked on games such as Independent Games Festival winner Glow Artisan, Microsoft Solitaire for Windows 8, and Dots. He is best known for the IndieCade Festival winner Sportsfriends.
Before computers, playing games was almost always a form of social interaction, but the rise of digital games in the latter part of the 20th century allowed them to become solitary activities. How have modern videogames helped bring people together? And how can we design games and software as social experiences?