GAMES:EDU

Games:EDU 08 North took place in Manchester yesterday, and you can find our first batch of photos from the event on Flickr.

We're proud of the line up of speakers we put on. They, along with all those in attendance, showed a real evolution of the dialogue that was started in 2006 and continued last July in Brighton.

There's still plenty to be settled in the dichotomy between vocational skills and research, but the way academics and developers are speaking to each other now is much more conciliatory and understanding.

It definitely needs to be pushed further though. While some academics and developers are talking to and listening to each other, there are plenty that aren't. We're looking forward to July, when we'll be putting on the South event with Jonthan Blow, and Mark Morris from Introversion.

Over the next few weeks, we're also going to be putting things from Games:EDU here on the site. We'll be putting up speakers slides, along with posts about the talks and articles from the delegate book.