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...
Heads up from Frank Lantz at Games for Change 2009 for some inspirational examples of games helping us understand social change. Check out the blog Overcoming Bias, by economist Robin Hanson; Intuition Games' Gray game, which has players attempt to get players in a mob...
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="277" caption="massively multiplayer mushu by Tiltfactor"][/caption] June 12-14, 2009 join us to play two Tiltfactor urban games at the Come Out & Play Festival! The festival will transform New York City once again into an urban playground! Opening on Saturday June 13 at 4...
Mary was recently interviewed for a new podcast interview featuring Tiltfactor along with Suzanne Seggerman. The discussion focused on games for change and is part of a cool series over at the Brainy Gamer. Everyone's preparing for the Games for Change festival in NYC --...