Episode 11

Tech for Good: Games for Kids in Hospital, with creative director Nikki Stearman

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February 21st, 2025

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We've got BAFTA winning Creative Director Nikki Stearman, talking about tech for good. She shares her experience designing and crafting experiences for children who are about to go to hospital, to help them understand what the environment and procedure will be like.

  • Michael's office refurb continues, as he trades signed music memorabilia for music speakers
  • The great rebrand is in the works
  • Lenny steals a lunch
  • Nikki shows off her BAFTA

Quickfire Questions

  1. Mac or PC?
  2. Greatest gaming console ever?
  3. Greatest game ever?
  4. Most addictive game on your phone?
  5. Yorkshire or East Anglia?
  6. Morris Ring, Morris Foundation, or Open Morris?
  7. Spend a day doing Freelance work, or a day doing your permanent job?
  8. Do you version control your code?
  9. Is big tech fundamentally evil?
  10. Death of Flash – sad or not sad?

Breaking prod?

Well that won't earn you a BAFTA! Nikki does her homework.

Big Topic: Tech for good, making games for kids

  • Tech for good – conscious choice or something you walked in to?
  • Do you worry about screen time?
  • Would you / have you ever taken a role you feel morally ambiguous about?
  • How close do you get to the end user of your product?
  • What’s a kid’s first interaction like with the games your company makes?
  • Does it show demonstrable results in treatment?
  • Do you make any games in your spare time?

Research from Dylan Yamada-Rice on Exploring Children's attitides towards notions fo the digital good through hybrid arts

News

  1. Are noise cancelling headphones causing health problems?
  2. Children’s views on AI will form the manifesto for world leaders
  3. AI to help us understand animal’s emotions
  4. Sri Lankan grid taken out by monkeys

Recommendations

Music

This is Classic Club playlist, dance anthems (apple music)
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Fear is on our Side album, Alternative (apple music)
Saafi Brothers - Mystic Cigarettes album, electronic (apple music)

Podcasts

Cloud Dialogues podcast from our guest on episode 7, Georgia Smith

Books

The Power of Bad and How to Overcome it

TV

Am I being unreasonable? (BBC iPlayer)

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