This past Friday was the second annual Dartmouth at Play event and it was a blast! There were great discussions happening all afternoon, and it was enlightening and inspiring to hear alumni panelists talk about games and game design. Topics ranged from the fun, with questions...
DARTMOUTH AT PLAY FRIDAY MAY 17 Loew Auditorium 2 – 5 PM GABRIEL SCHLUMBERGER DISNEY · MIKE MEARLS WIZARDS OF THE COAST · CATE GARY BLIZZARD ENT. · REGINA GLOCKER PRESIDENTIAL GAME · JUSTIN KRETER HASBRO INC · LINDEN VONGSATHORN MICROSOFT Tiltfactor is pleased to announce our second...
Members of the Tiltfactor team attended the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco and presented research on games designed for our BIAS project! Geoff introduced our work by discussing the goals of our lab and the theories behind our BIAS research. We...
This week is the Digital Arts Exhibition at Dartmouth! All week long FAB(rication) Lab has been going on in the Hopkins center with students and visitors learning about programming, animation, and many other subjects that combine art and technology! Tomorrow (Thursday, May 9th) from 7pm to...
The first ever "Different Games" conference in 2013 was a resounding success. What a receptive community and the organizers, presenters, and attendees were all passionate, smart, and offered so much as game designers, writers, and researchers. I've never been to a conference that started off...
The Tiltfactor team is off next week to THREE exciting events! First is our RePlay Health Game at the Society of General Internal Medicine on Friday April 26, 2013, from 3-4:30pm. Our team (Max and Geoff, with special guest star Dr. Pat Lee) will be playing...
The following is the third in a 3-part series of posts by Tiltfactor student interns. Metadata Games is a NEH-funded open source project that uses games to help crowdsource archive and library holding tags. Here, interns Andrea and Viviana briefly describe their prototyping process for...
This week at the annual Game Developer's Conference Education Summit, Tiltfactor Director Mary Flanagan has been called out to a 'Game Design Curriculum Deathmatch,' where leading game design instructors battle it out by revealing secrets to their game design teaching, their design philosophies, and pedagogical quirks. Speakers include...
This past week Tiltfactor sent a few versions of our Handwashing game to Haiti. Late last year, the former Minister of Health of Rwanda, Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, requested that we try and come up with a solution, in the form of a game, to help...
The following is the second in a 3-part series of posts by Tiltfactor student interns. Metadata Games is a NEH-funded open source project that uses games to help crowdsource archive and library holding tags. Below, interns Alannah and Rebecca briefly describe their process for designing...