Dan Fiden, GM of North America for EA-Playfish, gave a great talk today about the emotion and art within social games, and afterwards we had a chance to chat about the importance of art within the social and casual games industries. Standing on the third floor balcony overlooking the entire conference, we discussed the importance of putting art and emotion into games, and how the modern day casual and social games industries are doing just that. I thought I’d post a few thoughts I had after our conversation.
