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Listen to an interview with Chris Skaggs, Founder and Chief Operations Officer of Soma Games and Soma SoulWorks, and Amy and Ryan Green, both award winning video game designers. Recorded in January 2025, they discussed how AI will change the gaming industry in the next few years and how that can affect society. Also, Amy and Ryan Green shared creating video game “That Dragon, Cancer” as a poetic memorial to their son and his fight against terminal brain cancer.
Meet our Speakers
Amy Noel Green creates narrative video games that focus on personal and innovative stories. Her titles with Numinous Games include BAFTA award winning That Dragon, Cancer and Cannes and Venice International Film Festival Nominated AREA MAN LIVES. Amy served on the board of directors for the Christian Game Developer’s Conference for five years and now serves on the advisory counsel of Imladris and as a leader in the Wedgwood Gaming Circle.
Ryan Green is a BAFTA award-winning video game designer, digital interactive artist, and programmer currently focused on the metaverse. Ryan believes that technology should reveal rather than replace our humanity. He also serves as founder and Creative Director of Numinous Games, a studio he co-founded in 2012 with a focus on narrative, VR, serious, and accessible games.
Chris Skaggs is the Founder and Chief Operations Officer of Soma Games and Soma SoulWorks. Created in 2005, Soma Games makes artistically excellent games for people who may never go to church, but find themselves having fun while pondering eternal things. Soma SoulWorks is the ministry side of Soma producing teaching and podcasts for “young creatives”. Chris is an Intel Black Belt recipient and frequent speaker at major mobile and game-developer conferences.
Views and opinions expressed by podcast guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect the view of AI and Faith or any of its leadership.
Production: Pablo Salmones and Penny Yuen
Speakers: Chris Skaggs, Amy Green and Ryan Green
Editing: Isabelle Braconnot
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