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Game Design students at Wits Digital Arts play Dungeon and Dragons in a marathon 6 hour session. August 2012.

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MARCH 27 2019/27 MARZO 2019

18:00 - 19:00

Room 135/Aula 135 (terzo piano)

Università IULM (IULM 1)

Via Carlo Bo, 1

20143 Milan

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PLAYING POLITICS: HEADSHOT!

In this talk, media artist and activist Joseph DeLappe will describe a lineage of creative projects and actions situated at the intersections of computer gaming, art/technology, and interventionist strategies engaging our geopolitical contexts. DeLappe will detail an approach to considering computer gaming environments online as a new type of public space; within which he has conducted a series of interventionist performances and actions, such as the 2006 project dead‐in‐iraq, to type consecutively, all names of America's military casualties from the war in Iraq into the America's Army first-person shooter online recruiting game. More recent projects include Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides (2018), a self-playing mod as a data visualizer of gun homicides in the United States as realized through this popular video game.

Joseph DeLappe is Professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland. Works in online gaming performance, public engagements, participatory sculpture and electromechanical installation have been shown throughout the United States and internationally. He has developed works for venues such as Eyebeam Art and Technology in New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, China and Transitio MX, Mexico City, among others. Creative works and actions have been featured widely in scholarly journals, books and in the popular media. In 2016 he collaborated with the Biome Collective in Dundee to create Killbox, a game about drone warfare that was nominated in 2017 for a BAFTA Scotland in the “Best Computer Game” category. In 2017 he was awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts, one of the top awards for artists, writers and creatives in the United States.

POLITICA IN GIOCO: HEADSHOT!

In questo intervento, il media artist e attivista Joseph DeLappe illustra progetti, interventi e azioni creative che si collocano all’intersezione tra videogioco, arte, tecnologia e ideologia in differenti contesti geopolitici. DeLappe considera i videogiochi online una nuova tipologia di spazio pubblico, un palcoscenico virtuale nel quale dare vita a performance di ogni tipo. Gli interventi di DeLappe includono dead-in-iraq (2006), che prevedeva l’inserimento via chat dei nomi delle vittime militari statunitensi della guerra in Iraq nel videogioco di reclutamento online America’s Army fino al recentissimo Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides (2018), una modifica del popolare action game di Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto V, che visualizza in tempo reale le statistiche sugli omicidi da arma da fuoco negli Stati Uniti.

Joseph DeLappe è Professor of Games and Tactical Media presso l’Abertay University di Dundee, Scozia. La sua pratica privilegia le performance di gioco online e in pubblico, la scultura partecipativa e le installazioni elettromeccaniche sono state esposte negli Stati Uniti e a livello internazionale. Ha creato installazioni site-specific per Eyebeam Art and Technology a New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, Cina e Transitio MX, a Città del Messico, tra gli altri. Le sue opere e performance sono state citate su riviste accademiche, libri e mass media. Nel 2016 ha collaborato con il Biome Collective di Dundee per creare Killbox, un videogioco che tematizza l’uso dei droni finalista dei premi BAFTA 2017 nella categoria Best Computer Game. Nel 2017 ha ottenuto la Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts, uno dei riconoscimenti più prestigiosi per artisti, scrittori e creativi negli Stati Uniti.

This is a scene for a Flash point and click based game which has never actually seen the light. The game was called Hide and Seek and revolved around the story of a group of kids that after entering an old haunted mansion they never made it out. It was up to the oldest lad of the group to rescue his friends and get them safely out of the house.

Taken during the Playing with Rules workshop we ran with Hubbub at Mozilla Festival. Participants were asked to modify the rules of Parcheesi so that it would convey something about a social issue.

The restaurant La Brasserie in the House of Switzerland UK 2012 catered by Mosimann's and featuring a wide range of Swiss culinary specialties from different regions of Switzerland.

© FDFA / Presence Switzerland

Foto credits: Pauline Opmeer, Opmeer Reports

Donderdagavond zijn tijdens een grootse ceremonie de prijzen uitgereikt voor de beste games van Nederlandse makelij. Greed Corp van het Amsterdamse Vanguard won twee van de belangrijkste awards.

Het strategische spel dat dit jaar verscheen voor PlayStation 3 en Xbox 360 won in de categorie Best PC/Console-game. De lezers van het vakblad voor de gamesindustrie, Control, wezen Greed Corp aan als beste overall gamesproductie uit Nederland.

De Dutch Game Awards zijn dit jaar voor de derde keer uitgereikt aan Nederlandse gamesmakers en zijn een initiatief van de Amersfoortse gamesconferentie Game in the City. Tijdens het Control Industry Dinner werden in totaal 13 plexiglazen uilen uitgereikt, de Dutch Game Award.

Game in the City en de Dutch Game Awards zijn initiatieven van Amersfoort Creatieve Stad in samenwerking met partners als Dutch Games Association, NLGD, Dutch Game Garden, Immovator en Control Magazine.

The cell game prototype developed for Spore was so robust that it could be run as its own fully playable board game.

Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/

Computer science students participate in the Global Game Jam from Jan 20-22 at Stamford's Ferguson Library. Sacred Heart University School of Computing Professor Bob McCloud was the on-site development expert for the event. Photo by Mark F. Conrad 1/21/17

Master of Arts in Game Design

IULM University

June 27 2018

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Games User Research: How to avoid the designer's facepalm

Designers have to tell in advance how gamers will comprehend, feel and interact with their games in order to craft successful gaming experiences and avoid frustration, doubts or uncertainty. And since user testing is a powerful tool to verify designers' intents and predictions, Games User Research is a powerful ally. In this workshop, I will show how the science of user testing made your favorite games perfect and I will provide attendees with takeaways they can use to improve their own projects.

Short Bio

Pietro Guardini is an independent Games User Researcher with a PhD in Experimental Psychology and 19 years of research experience. He started doing research on Human-Computer Interaction in 1999 in the academy and later he entered the gaming industry by introducing User Research activity in Milestone – the major videogame studio in Italy – and by supporting Management, Design and Marketing departments with research and testing on 20+ published titles. More recently he founded StopGuessing.it and today he assists several studios in developing their best gaming experience. He had the pleasure to present his work in several publications and talks, including the Game Developers Conference.

For more info:

www.stopguessing.it

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Wish I could have partied down with these cats. Some of my favorites in the world of game design right now. (Stole this image off the Durham 3 podcast website)

Sacred Heart University's School of Computer Science & Engineering participated in the annual Fairfield County Global Game Jam at Stamford's Ferguson Library on January 25-27, 2019. Photo by Mark F. Conrad

Strat-O-Matic allows players to simulate

the core gameplay underlying baseball using real-world player statistics.

Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/

Playtesting a game I designed with Borna, Jenny and Myra for Frank Lantz's Game Design class at ITP.

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Im diesjährigen Weihnachtsworkshop in Wels wurden, gemeinsam mit Schülern des MRG Fadingerstraße Linz, die Grundlagen der Open-Source 3D Modelliersoftware Blender behandelt und fliegende Inseln für das Spiel 'Fragment Planet' modelliert, sowie texturiert.

'Fragment Planet' ist ein Echtzeitstrategiespiel von Simon Stix, in dem die Erde auf der Suche nach einer neuen Energiequelle vernichtet wurde. Die Überlebenden der Katastrophe bewegen sich mithilfe von Fluggeräten zwischen Fragmenten der alten Welt und bauen auf ihnen trostlose Städte und Militärbasen. Der Stil des Spiels ist eine Mischung aus Steam- und Cyberpunk und es verbindet die Elemente klassischer Strategiespiele, mit frei beweglichen, fliegenden Inseln, wodurch ein einzigartig dynamisches Gameplay entsteht.

Workshop-Leitung: Gerolf Nikolay, MSc

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von GMF-Productions www.gmf.com.mx

A spy disguises himself as a member of the enemy team in Team Fortress 2. To players on the opposing team, he appears as the character on his mask.

Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/

Jennifer Argüello, Technology Evangelist, visited The Young Women's Leadership School of Astoria to speak with Globaloria students about her experience growing up as a Latina pursuing a Computer Science degree in university and her career in the technology sector. She encouraged all girls to learn programming and enter the technology field, capping the visit by presenting prizes to the NY winners of the 2014 Globey Game Design Awards and Competitions, and giving the students a chance to try on her Google Glass.

Order game on ICAH.org: www.icah.org/content/talk-the-talk

Sacred Heart University's School of Computer Science & Engineering participated in the annual Fairfield County Global Game Jam at Stamford's Ferguson Library on January 25-27, 2019. Photo by Mark F. Conrad

Computer science students participate in the Global Game Jam from Jan 20-22 at Stamford's Ferguson Library. Sacred Heart University School of Computing Professor Bob McCloud was the on-site development expert for the event. Photo by Mark F. Conrad 1/21/17

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Clay Modeling im ersten Semester, 2012.

Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/

Considering how a game would be designed at opposite ends of a spectrum can spark ideas for design.

Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/

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Globaloria students Brittany Arbogast (Tygarts Valley High School, WV) and Jennifer Carceres (The Young Women's Leadership School of Astoria (TYWLSA), NY) are recipients of the ESA LOFT Video Game Innovation Fellowship for their games created in Globaloria classes. They were given the opportunity to present their games to policy makers, STEM innovators, game designers and media in Washington, D.C. and were awarded innovation grants to continue developing their games. 2013 Recipients from Globaloria, Daniela Leguisamo and Geraldine Agredo (TYWLSA, NY), joined the celebration and events in D.C. as well.

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In Grand Theft Auto IV, crimes are punishable only when the police are around to see them.

Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/

built in second life for my final major project, all textures were painted from scratch using photoshop CS3.

an ankh morpork inspired build, origionally intended to be an RP space

Players in Club Penguin can interact with one another only by selecting canned phrases from a list.

Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/

Imagine Cup 2012 participants are preparing for presentations of the first round of the Game and Software Design competition and Phone.

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Im diesjährigen Weihnachtsworkshop in Wels wurden, gemeinsam mit Schülern des MRG Fadingerstraße Linz, die Grundlagen der Open-Source 3D Modelliersoftware Blender behandelt und fliegende Inseln für das Spiel 'Fragment Planet' modelliert, sowie texturiert.

'Fragment Planet' ist ein Echtzeitstrategiespiel von Simon Stix, in dem die Erde auf der Suche nach einer neuen Energiequelle vernichtet wurde. Die Überlebenden der Katastrophe bewegen sich mithilfe von Fluggeräten zwischen Fragmenten der alten Welt und bauen auf ihnen trostlose Städte und Militärbasen. Der Stil des Spiels ist eine Mischung aus Steam- und Cyberpunk und es verbindet die Elemente klassischer Strategiespiele, mit frei beweglichen, fliegenden Inseln, wodurch ein einzigartig dynamisches Gameplay entsteht.

Workshop-Leitung: Gerolf Nikolay, MSc

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von GMF-Productions www.gmf.com.mx

VFS's Main Theatre.

Find out more about VFS's one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign.

Shots of the prototyping work for Maguro.

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"With Richard Garriott making headlines for his trip to the International Space Station, readers may be interested in learning more about his past. Last Fall, veteran video game executive Warren Spector invited several industry luminaries to come to UT to speak in his video game master class.

Video podcasts of several of the sessions are now available, including the class with Richard Garriott."