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Advancing Ethics in the Games Industry: A Round Table

Published: 08 August 2024 Publication History

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How can we institute good ethical practice in the games industry, safeguarding the welfare of players and employees alike? Inspired by the code of ethics drafted by the Ethical Games Initiative, this roundtable convenes industry regulators and leaders from Minecraft to Sesame Workshop to discuss these questions. They highlight the importance and difficulty of finding common ground in cultural diversity; the leverage in laws and regulations, positive aspirations, making a business case, and groundswell employee demands; and the need to align scalable systems with contextual player experiences and behavior.

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  • (2024)Ethical Games: Toward Evidence-Based Guidance for Safeguarding Players and DevelopersGames: Research and Practice10.1145/36852072:2(1-11)Online publication date: 19-Aug-2024

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cover image Games: Research and Practice
Games: Research and Practice  Volume 2, Issue 2
June 2024
149 pages
EISSN:2832-5516
DOI:10.1145/3613575
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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 08 August 2024
Accepted: 01 July 2024
Revised: 29 June 2024
Received: 29 June 2024
Published in GAMES Volume 2, Issue 2

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  1. Ethics
  2. video games
  3. games industry
  4. content moderation
  5. harassment
  6. online communities
  7. culturalization

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  • (2024)Ethical Games: Toward Evidence-Based Guidance for Safeguarding Players and DevelopersGames: Research and Practice10.1145/36852072:2(1-11)Online publication date: 19-Aug-2024

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