I’ve watched Alistair Aitcheson take Greedy Bankers from an outline idea in the pub to a fully realised, multiplayer iPad game. Along the way, he’s continually had to struggle for exposure and press, against the backdrop of a noisy app store where it’s easy to be drowned out. He’s also just 23 years old, and has done this pretty much straight out of University. As well as showing his game, Alistair will be talking about the process of taking an app from from unknown to well known.

Iain Simons is the director of the magnificent GameCity Festival, and with Professor James Newman also works on the National Videogame Archive. Between the festival and the archive, their work concentrates on plotting the cultural place of games, in terms of both what they are now and what they once were. Recently though, they have come to think that we should let them die.

Discuss.