Game Changers Promotes Play, Education And Canada

By: Nick Liard

Game Changers at Science North features 17 playable games including Super Mario Bros, Tetris, Pac-Man and more.

The new travelling exhibit made by the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa is playable but dives behind the scenes of how games are made.

More specifically where they are made, as Assistant Curator with the Ottawa Museum, Sean Tudor says, it’s often forgotten just how many games are made in Canada.

Games like Assassin’s Creed, Dead Rising 4, Mass Effect, NHL and more are made in Canada.

Many of them are featured in the exhibit.

President and CEO of the Science and Tech Museum Corporation,Alex Benay says there are still stigmas with video games, but the exhibit hopes to change some of them.

He says video games are used for education, health care, mining and bomb defusing in the military is done by a remote that looks a lot like an Xbox controller.

Benay says the idea for the exhibit came in conversations with the staff’s kids.

He says his son never grew up with Donkey Kong or Tetris but plays games like Mass Effect, so it’s an experience they can share together.

Game Changers will be on display in Sudbury until January 8th, then it heads to Moosejaw, Saskatoon, into Quebec, then back to Ottawa.