In the summer of 2025 Professor Flanagan's Game Design Studio class partnered with Windham Aging to create games to help older players: age in place, and be more self-determined, fulfilled, and connected....
Tiltfactor founding director Mary Flanagan and Tiltfactor alum Gili Freedman (currently Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at St. Mary's College of Maryland) recently collaborated on an article entitled "The Effect of Embodying a Woman Scientist in Virtual Reality on Men's Gender Biases" for the...
Tiltfactor Lab's very own Mary Flanagan was inspired by the Atari 2600 digital experiences of her childhood to create the artwork [giantJoystick], a 10-foot tall Atari CX40 controller weighing about 3,000 pounds. [giantJoystick] was recently recognized by the Guinness World Records 2022 Book as the largest joystick...
NarraScope is just a cool cool event, and this year it's pay what you can and online. NarraScope 2020: Celebrating Narrative Games May 28 - June 4 2020. On Thursday May 28, we discovered that Matthew Farber is running "Terrifically Awkward: Games To Teach Social...
Years ago we created a board game, POX: Save the People, a game that helped players understand infections diseases, as well as ZOMBIEPOX (stopping the zombie hoard) and POX: Save the Puppies, about vaccinating pets. Watch a video about the project, read an interview, and...
We've just completed data collection on our VR study! Stay tuned for more information as we submit our results for publication...
Grace is a sophomore at Dartmouth College doing game design, development, and research at Tiltfactor There’s a reason computer science majors are stereotyped as being socially awkward. It’s because we are. That’s why when I started working at Tiltfactor, the one part of the job I...
In February, Tiltfactor director Mary Flanagan was honored to be invited to Dubai by the organizers of the World Government Summit and the creative leadership group THNK for the UN/OECD-based Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) In Action workshop at the annual World Government Summit. Mary presented...
This week we lost a true great philosopher-king of play: Bernie DeKoven, who passed away in Indiana on Sunday. Founder of "The Games Preserve," a game retreat center in Pennsylvania, he then went on to become involved in the New Games Movement, a 1970s collective...
We are excited to launch our online adventure game, Crowded Dungeon! Designed by Tiltfactor with development by Producto Studios, Crowded Dungeon at first seems like a traditional ‘dungeon crawl’-style game....