Our entire team has read the research report by the Association of American University Women (AAUW) that offers compelling evidence to help explain what is going on in the US with science, technology, math and science and women. By the way, in 1885, a group...
The Tiltfactor team was busy at DiGRA 2011. Thursday September 15th, I presented (with Jonathan Belman) our paper on the design approach behind POX:SAVE THE PEOPLE. Friday September 16th, Jonathan Belman shared our latest paper on our Grow-A-Game cards, "Grow-A-Game: A Tool for Values Conscious...
Better than ever before, the new series of Grow-A-Game cards are out! Grow-a-Game are colorful, professionally produced brainstorming tools used in top game design programs at major universities, in game design companies, and in high school programs. Version 2.0 now comes in three different...
Dr. Doris Rusch visited Dartmouth today, and offered a compelling discussion of the purposeful use of games. She looked at the ways in which the human condition is expressed through other media such as language, literature, and film, and went on to argue for the...
We need to tag 64,000 photographs with expert data. Thousands of people are going to come and help us, some for hours at a time, and we will attract them through the pleasure of play. How can tagging an archive of old photographs ever be...
Some of the Tiltfactor team members are attending Toyfair this week researching product development and educational toys. We especially enjoyed meeting folks at Rubbing Hands, a small company in Connecticut. They showed us their games including Fred and Capture the Gag, which were very well...
We've got a slew games to design this winter term at Tiltfactor (https://tiltfactor.org), Dartmouth's nonprofit game research lab -- and you can help, if you are up to the challenge! We're asking Dartmouth students to propose to take on one of these five game challenges --...
Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip Fruin, and Mary Flanagan, half of the art-theory collaboration Grand Text Auto, gathered at the Digital Games Research Association's 2009 Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory in Uxbridge, UK. Mateas is speaking on "Operational Logics,"...
Tiltfactor director Mary Flanagan was interviewed in, "Labeling Library Archives Is a Game at Dartmouth College" in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the new NEH project called "Metadata Games." The interview perhaps overplays the "free labour" aspect of the game itself. Using play...