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Richard Evans Richard Evans , Electronic Arts Date:
Friday, December 4th Time: 11:00am – 12:30pm Location: Engineering...
2 – 180 (Simularium) Hosted By: Professor Marilyn Walker, Dept. of Computer Science “People Simulations” Richard Evans is the Senior ...
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Richard Evans Talk at UCSC
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The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) has just announced a site showcasing the Deena Larsen Collection, which Deena gave to MITH in 2007. Early on, Deena wrote two Eastgate-published pieces, Marble Springs and Samplers, but these are only two of dozens of pieces she has ...
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I got word from Nitin Sawney, founder of Voices Beyond Walls (which conducts storytelling and video production workshops with youth in the West Bank) and the Boston Palestine Film Festival, of a new site that MIT has launched: Jerusalem 2050: Visions for a Place of Peace. On the site, you can ...
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I’m pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the Workshop on Procedural Content Generation in Computer Games is now available. The PC Games workshop is co-located with FDG 2010 this coming June in Monterey, California. Deadline for submissions is February 24, 2010.
From the ...
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At this point, most people should know of Google Wave . Fewer have had an opportunity to start “waving,” as Google Wave is still in a “limited preview” stage. Usually, I’m not the first in line to adopt a new technology, because I always need substantial ...
Gaming
Tonight, Kathe Kollwitz of the Guerrilla Girls joined the variable_d salon to discuss activism in a digital age. Formed in 1985, the artists assumed the names of dead women artists and wore gorilla masks in public, concealing their identities and focusing on the issues rather than their tastes ...
Gaming
Tiltfactor explores human values in games and in the game design process. Some of these values include things like sharing, loyalty, privacy, and cooperation. Often, these values are necessary for altruistic acts to occur. Looking at the evolutionary roots for altruism, however, Dr. Michael ...
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Belatedly, I want to mention a least a bit about the great conference that I participated in two weekends ago in New York: The Internet as Playground and Factory: A Conference on Digital Labor. The gathering was organized by Trebor Scholz and took place at the Eugene Lang College for Liberal ...
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Thriller:
Smooth Criminal:
Something to give thanks for and dance your way into turkey comas. Happy Thanksgiving!
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On Monday (November 30) at 6pm in MIT’s room 14E-310,
The Purple Blurb series of readings and presentations on digital writing will present a talk by
Marina Bers
associate professor at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development and adjunct associate professor in the Computer ...
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That’s an interview with Alan DeNiro now up at Grinding to Valhalla. DeNiro is author of the just-published Total Oblivion, More or Less, in which Minnesota, and then the rest of the US, is invaded by ancient European tribes. DeNiro also wrote and programmed one of the most unusual ...
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Piksel, a festival for free-software-creating and -using artists and developers, has begun in Bergen, Norway. If you can’t drop by, at least visit the festival on the Web and check out the brilliant hackery on display at the main exhibition.
Gaming
Rachel Miller of Virginia Commonwealth University just interviewed me about my electronic literature work – my digital writing, focusing on my interactive fiction. She asked some very good questions. In return, I asked if she’d let me post the interview here, to which she kindly ...
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Andrew Stern’s company Stumptown Game Machine released their Touch Pets Dogs, published by ngmoco for the iPhone. On this social network, everyone knows that you’re a virtual dog. Versions of it are in the top 10 free apps on the iPhone App Store now, and in the top 100 of pay ...
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Call of Duty: Secret Spielberg Level Unlocked
Only with the absurdity of this video can you accurately capture the almost-entirely failed message of Call of Duty.
Choice quote: “My girlfriend has walked in front of the telly again.”
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Call of Duty
While every boy knows that Fighting Fantasy was like, you know, 900 times better , than Choose Your Own Adventure , the level to which Christian Swinheart goes to dissect the CYOA series is nothing short of phenomenal. His visualizations of the story paths, in particular, are beautiful ...
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Distinguished Lecture: Frank Lantz
Interim Director, NYU Game Center and Creative Director, Area/Code
Wednesday, Nov 18th, 2-3:30pm
Engineering 2, room 506
“Innovations in Game Design: Through Practice to Theory”
Frank Lantz is the Creative Director and co-Founder of ...
