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Talk & Play is a free event series organized by and for the local games industry. We strive to create a welcoming atmosphere for the entire community, from students to CEOs, with the intention to gather the entire industry at WERK1 for food, drinks, quality talks, networking and play sessions. Thanks to Games/Bavaria, CipSoft and WERK1 for their support!
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SPEAKER - Jean Leggett
Our first speaker is Jean Leggett, co-founder and CEO of One More Story Games, the developer of StoryStylus, a simplified authoring platform for amateur and professional writers to create, publish and market diverse narrative-based video games. Jean is the lead writer of the Charlaine Harris game adaptation of “Shakespeare’s Landlord” to be published in early 2019 about a woman coming to grips with her PTSD from sexual assault when she discovers a murder close to home.
In her talk "Stories that haunt us and heal us: exploring mental health, abuse and trauma through games narrative” Jean will be speaking about the design of Charlaine Harris’ "Shakespeare's Landlord," a novel-to-game adaptation and how the development team designed narrative choices, events and characters to mindfully explore trauma, PTSD and character progression within the construct of a 2D mystery adventure game.
SPEAKER - Arno Görgen
Our second speaker is Arno Görgen, research associate at the University of the Arts in Bern. Over the past years Arno has worked in various medicine-historic institutes researching topics like "Violence towards Kids" and "Science and Pop Culture". He's currently graduating at the University in Bern with his project „Biohorror in Digital Games“.
His talk "Mental Health in Digital Games. Ethics and Aesthetics of the Unplayable" is going to focus on the depiction of mental illness in video games.
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AGENDA
--- 19:00 Doors Open
--- 19:30 Talks Start
--- 21:15 Pizza & Drinks, sponsored by CipSoft
--- 21:30 Game Showcase & Networking
--- 23:00 The End
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GAMES
If you're interested in showcasing your current project during the event, sign up here: goo.gl/forms/Tvfte4BJsV5KaUc53
We'll be announcing the games on display at Talk & Play in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
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SPONSOR
Talk & Play is kindly sponsored by CipSoft:
CipSoft was founded in 2001 and arose from the success of Tibia, one of the first MMORPG’s of the world. In 2003, the company from Regensburg published TibiaME and with that the first online role-playing game for mobile phones. Panzer League, the first mobile multiplayer online battle arena for tanks, is currently in soft launch. Being one of the oldest German game developers, the company has an approximate annual turnover of 10 million euros and 90 employees. The independence from external investors as well as a continuous income from their online games allows CipSoft a steady growth without waves of redundancies or crunch times. You can find more information about CipSoft on their website: cipsoft.com/index.php/de/
Talk & Play is a format created by Berlingamescene.com, which has been running the event in Berlin every two months since 2013. Visit berlingamescene.com/talkandplay/ for more. This event is run independently and takes inspiration from the original format.
Warrior Brigade and Tropic Lightning Soldiers strive for excellence as they continue their hunt for the Expert Field Medical Badge Aug. 25, 2016 on Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
Not as fun but better for you... We tried our hand at "trashing the hotel room, rock n roll style" but just ended up jumping on the beds like naughty school kids :P
If I had known about this site i would have strived for a better pic!! www.bedjump.com/
4x12 inch mixed media painting on stretched canvas
Striving for Raw & Organic natural designs, my "Art Gem" series has given me some of my most satisfying results. Each one is unique, with patterns that reflect beautiful natural flowing elements.
The technique I use to make these result in paintings that are everything from electric, wild & full of movement to calm surreal dreams. Some have described them as topo maps from a distant colorful planet, and like the outer reaches of another galaxy.
A series of small format abstract paintings. Very raw & organic with unique textures, colorful finishes & vivid imagery.
Made with layers of custom mixed acrylic & pearlescent paints, inks, powders, varnishes.
Modern original abstract painting art gems. Mixed material on canvas.
This series is taking off as people are getting into the idea of making their own custom arrangement by grouping several of these together.
Join the craze! Find them at www.daviniart.com or on eaby. ebay ID is ddartgems.
Affordable smaller paintings created with custom mixed materials & unusual techniques developed by artist Danny Davini.
The sports activities for Mountainfest June 17, 2015 begin with a division run, aimed at building esprit de corps amongst 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) Soldiers at Fort Drum, New York. After the 4 mile trek units participated in several tournaments, including flag football, soccer, volleyball, softball, basketball and combatives. All we're striving to win the coveted 10th Mountain Division (LI) Commander's Cup.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Osama Ayyad, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) Public Affairs Office/Released)
This slide strives to get across two things:
1.) How similar Newton's Law of Gravitation is to Coulomb's Law. They are both inverse square laws that show a force spreading out as you move away from it. The gravitational field g and the electric field E are drawn on the left two pictures, they can be seen as a measure of how much space is warped. The pictures of the fields show where the force of gravity or electricity would be pointing in the various locations, and the strength of the field can be seen in how close together or far apart the arrows are at each location.
2.)Key differences
a.) Gravity is only attractive, things only fall towards earth, never away.
b.) Gravity is about ten billion times ten billion times weaker than electricity (look at the relative values of k and G.)
Quoc Truong, a physical scientist with the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, demonstrates
how “omniphobic,” self-cleaning fabric repels liquids better than regular Army combat uniforms. The
technology has made its way to the commercial market and has a wide variety of uses. Achieving
dominance through technical excellence and innovation is at the heart of BBP 3.0. (Photo by David
Kamm, U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM))
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. www.mixcloud.com/roleatl/strive/
Blocks of townhouses in West Harlem, originally built by the developer David E. King as the King Model Houses (1891-1893). See introductory comments here.
Seen here: the centerpiece set, occupying the entire block between 138th and 139th: a yellow-brick Renaissance dream by Bruce Price & Clarence S. Luce. As they completely wrap the interior carriageway, they really give a sense of how this typology was supposed to work. These could be seen as a last gasp of the sort of genteel, low-rise urbanism that was rapidly being replaced, city-wide, by increasingly bulky and barely-regulated mid-rise tenements. Alternatively, we might see them in parallel with contemporary "model tenements," and later "garden apartment" schemes, which both essentially sought to hybridize the tenement and the courtyard model.
Warriors walked into the third day of IMCOM's first-ever Best Warrior Competition with a 12-mile road march carrying a 35-pound rucksack. Staff Sgt. Jacob A. Brewster, IMCOM Europe NCO of the Year from USAG Stuttgart, crossed the finish line first with a time of two hours and 55 minutes. Soldiers walked into the third day of the IMCOM Best Warrior Competition with a 12-mile road march with a 35-pound rucksack through the rocky terrain of south central Texas Hill Country at Camp Bullis. Staff Sgt. Jacob A. Brewster crossed the finish line first with a time of two hours and 55 minutes.
"We are the Army's Home"
About the U.S. Army Installation Management Community:
IMCOM handles the day-to-day operations of U.S. Army installations around the globe – We are the Army's Home. Army installations are communities that provide many of the same types of services expected from any small city. Fire, police, public works, housing, and child-care are just some of the things IMCOM does in Army communities every day. We endeavor to provide a quality of life for Soldiers, Civilians and Families commensurate with their service. Our professional workforce strives to deliver on the commitments of the Army Family Covenant, honor the sacrifices of military Families, and enable the Army Force Generation cycle.
Our Mission: Our mission is to provide Soldiers, Civilians and their Families with a quality of life commensurate with the quality of their service.
Our Vision: Army installations are the Department of Defense standard for infrastructure quality and are the provider of consistent, quality services that are a force multiplier in supported organizations’ mission accomplishment, and materially enhance Soldier, Civilian and Family well-being and readiness.
Homepage: www.imcom.army.mil/hq
www.facebook.com/InstallationManagementCommunity
www.youtube.com/installationmgt
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Soldiers walked into the third day of the IMCOM Best Warrior Competition with a 12-mile road march with a 35-pound rucksack through the rocky terrain of south central Texas Hill Country at Camp Bullis. Staff Sgt. Jacob A. Brewster crossed the finish line first with a time of two hours and 55 minutes.
"We are the Army's Home"
About the U.S. Army Installation Management Community:
IMCOM handles the day-to-day operations of U.S. Army installations around the globe – We are the Army's Home. Army installations are communities that provide many of the same types of services expected from any small city. Fire, police, public works, housing, and child-care are just some of the things IMCOM does in Army communities every day. We endeavor to provide a quality of life for Soldiers, Civilians and Families commensurate with their service. Our professional workforce strives to deliver on the commitments of the Army Family Covenant, honor the sacrifices of military Families, and enable the Army Force Generation cycle.
Our Mission: Our mission is to provide Soldiers, Civilians and their Families with a quality of life commensurate with the quality of their service.
Our Vision: Army installations are the Department of Defense standard for infrastructure quality and are the provider of consistent, quality services that are a force multiplier in supported organizations’ mission accomplishment, and materially enhance Soldier, Civilian and Family well-being and readiness.
Homepage: www.imcom.army.mil/hq
www.facebook.com/InstallationManagementCommunity
www.youtube.com/installationmgt
(Staff Photos by Rob Mattson/Amherst College, Office of Communications) Amherst Men's Lacrosse players make their way along the 16-mile trail run that will take them from the "Notch" Visitor's Center to over 1,000 feet in elevation atop Bare Mountain, traversing the Holyoke Range on the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail, about 30 minutes past the summit house visitor center, and all the way back down, in Amherst, Mass., Friday afternoon, October 24, 2014. The men's lacrosse team is not running for fun. Instead, they are running for a worthwhile cause, Students Bridging the Information Gap (SBIG), an organization that builds libraries and provides technological resources for underprivileged orphanages in Ghana. Of the 50 scholar athletes participating in the event, more than 20 LAX players will negotiate the entire 16 mile course (the others are presently in class, and will join in the run at various markers along the way).
To view a copy of the Men's Lacrosse, visit www.amherst.edu/system/files/media/SBIG%2520Final%2520201..., or continue reading...
According to the Men's Lacrosse press release:
"This fall, the 50 members of the Amherst Men’s lacrosse team will run up and down the “Seven Sisters,” a mountain range
spanning more than 15 miles, consisting of 14 peaks and more than 4000 ft of vertical climb of rocky terrain, along the Holyoke
Range in western Massachusetts to help raise money and awareness for Students Bridging The Information Gap (SBIG), a
nonprofit organization providing technological and infrastructure resources for students in Ghana. Specifically, our “Sprint for
SBIG” will help SBIG inspire the humanitarian efforts of our extended family and friends network, for students in Africa, helping
to fund learning labs, libraries and educational opportunities for schools and orphanages.
Students Bridging the Information Gap, is a Summit, NJ based 501-(c)(3) charity founded by Matthew Killian ’17, a member of
the Amherst Lacrosse team, along with his family and friends. SBIG’s primary focus is providing computer labs and libraries
along with age-appropriate reading material to less fortunate students and orphans in Africa. Specifically, SBIG utilizes a
detailed Needs Assessment to evaluate the physical plant/infrastructure, access to water and electricity, characteristics of the
students and staff, and reputation of the organization. SBIG’s mission of bringing learning focused aid to the less fortunate in
Africa has inspired the members of the Amherst Lacrosse program to strive to help better the world. We are grateful for our own
education, and hope our efforts pay off. SBIG’s goals are worth passionately pursuing. Education; after all, is forever.
Since its formation in 2008, SBIG and their local team of professionals and volunteers in Ghana have completed four computer
labs and libraries serving over 2,100 children at the Baptist School Complex and Orphanage (2008), Good Shepherd Orphanage
(2009), New Life International Children’s Home (2010), and In My Father’s House (2011). SBIG’s process of global community
engagement is cost-effective and community oriented. With limited overhead (utilizing all volunteer staffing in the U.S), SBIG is
able to efficiently deliver learning-focused aid directly to benefit students. Additionally, SBIG has formed meaningful
relationships with a team of local professionals and volunteers and now has a strong local African presence to help implement
their initiatives.
With a local focus, a community investment, and a global vision, SBIG has inspired a very personal commitment within the
Amherst Lacrosse family. Starting in 2008, the Killian family and other volunteers have traveled to Ghana to help oversee the
building of computer labs and libraries and to deliver donated books. To see just how influential SBIG and their service trips are,
you can copy and paste the following link into your internet browser: www.youtube.com/watch?v=afa1qZNODhU
Amherst lacrosse has shown a commitment to helping create a better local and global community. We passionately pursue the
process of becoming great men, and with that commitment we turn our attention toward transcendent causes. In addition to
ongoing local community engagement projects, our “Climb for Cole” in 2011 helped raise almost $15,000 in support of United
Cerebral Palsy. In 2012 we “Hiked for Helen” raising more than $25,000 for research towards a rare form of pediatric cancer, and
in 2013 we challenged ourselves with our “Student Sponsor Summit” raising more than $40,000 for the educational benefit of atrisk
children in NYC. As a team we are excited to undertake the “Sprint for SBIG” and reach outside our immediate surroundings
to help those who are less fortunate pursue a better life by helping to provide critical educational resources.
One hundred percent of each donation we collect will go directly to Student’s Bridging the Information Gap. As a 501 (c)(3)
organization, all donations to SBIG will be tax-deductable.
To donate online, please visit: www.sbigonline.org and click donate.
To mail a check, please make it out to “Students Bridging The Information Gap.” Checks can be sent directly to:
Jon Thompson
Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach
P.O Box 5000
Amherst, MA 01002"