• The Tiltfactor Laboratory makes screen based computer games as well as street games and table top games like card games and board games. Unlike typical commercial games, our mission is to focus on “critical play.” We make games for children, for adults, for the public, and for particular communities to raise issues, discussion points, or just innovate play in novel ways.

    While our games can be seen as educational, it is important to us that they are fun!

    Our software and playful art fosters rewarding, compelling, and socially-responsible interactions, with a focus on inventive game design for social change.

    • Play Cube

    …a flexible, impromptu, waterproof, mobile public venue to show off local ideas and innovations. Dartmouth’s PLAYCUBE is home for experimental new media work, unique performances, design charrettes, and demos by students, faculty, and visitors.

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    Our unusual exhibition space is flexible, multi-purpose, portable, and used by those from multiple disciplines and schools across campus for myriad functions: guest lecturer events, design studios, student installations, video art, performance, and much more.

    PLAYCUBE is home to:

    • impromptu workshops with guest speakers, designers, and artists
    • robotics competitions
    • new media sculptures and installations
    • 24 hour game-creating “jams”
    • architecture and product design charrettes
    • engineering and product design experiments
    • virtual community exhibitions
    • educational activities involving the community and computer games
    • game design brainstorming sessions
    • programming competitions
    • campus-wide drawing events
    • digital architecture exhibits
    • marathon play sessions and competitions
    • informational talks and video conferencing
    • medical school showcases of emerging technology
    • sound and video installations.
    • visiting artist meetings
    • other events that highlight Dartmouth’s “wired” and innovative nature

    PLAYCUBE as design studio

    PLAYCUBE as a play research studio

    PLAYCUBE as design studio

    PLAYCUBE as design studio