FinLit Insights: Advice for Game Developers with Enki Yan is a video created for Zoud GameLab. Yan is a Global Game Jam regional organizer, a cofounder of indie game ecosystem platform Permafrost Echo and a professor with a PhD in Finance. Sedda is also a member of the Zoud GameLab jam advisory board.
Summary: Financial literacy matters most when people learn it early, and it covers far more than stocks and investing. Banking, insurance, pensions, credit, payments, commodities, and funds all offer ideas for games. Enki Yan encourages jammers to teach through practical experience and to help players understand where risk comes from and how to make informed decisions, instead of avoiding risk altogether.
Big Idea: Financial literacy is much bigger than investing, and the best games help players understand risk and consequences rather than memorize terms.
Playable Takeaway: Finance has far more corners than most people think, so pick an unexpected one and see what game it becomes.