Jennifer deWinter
- Dean, Lewis College of Science and Letters
鈥淭his is the problem with any form of self-policing, is that people will only police to the edge of where it starts really affecting profit,鈥 said Jennifer deWinter, dean of Lewis College of Science and Letters. 鈥淪o if we actually want social media to have a meaningful role in this sort of self-policing, it needs to come from the government first.鈥
鈥淭he core experience of Mario is playgrounds,鈥 says Jennifer deWinter, dean of Lewis College of Science and Letters and author of 鈥淪higeru Miyamoto: Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda.鈥 鈥淚t鈥檚 climbing and jumping and sliding and exploration. Look at that original movie, the core experience is the conflict. (The game has) never been about the conflict, it鈥檚 about the experience. How do you translate this experience?鈥
鈥淭here鈥檚 no such thing as a perfect game,鈥 said Jennifer deWinter, dean of Lewis College of Science and Letters. 鈥淏ut if I had to ponder the brilliance of Tetris 鈥 and I think that is a fun thing to ponder 鈥 Tetris provides a pattern-based abstraction that allows people to go into a flow state, readily.鈥