FinLit Insights: Advice for Game Developers with Roberto Sedda is a video created for Zoud GameLab. Sedda is a Global Game Jam site organizer, a founder of Thisisnotafunnygame and a former coordinator of local member groups and member representative at Banca Popolare Etica. Sedda is also a member of the Zoud GameLab jam advisory board. This resource is available in both English and Italian.
Summary: Financial literacy is a tool for personal empowerment, and it has a lot in common with player agency in game design: both are about having the understanding to make meaningful choices. Many people are caught in cycles of debt and financial disadvantage, and financial education can help them break free. Roberto Sedda encourages jammers to try unconventional mechanics and to keep real people and the wider community at the center, rather than focusing only on financial tools and techniques.
Big Idea: Financial literacy is about giving people control over their lives, so the best games make players feel the human side of money decisions, not just the math.
Playable Takeaway: Agency is what games do best, so ask what it would feel like for a player to gain real control over a financial situation they started out trapped in.
Watch the full video in English above or on YouTube here.
Watch the full video in Italian below or on YouTube here.