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...
Did you know Tiltfactor has a YouTube channel? We have videos on the lab in general, the Playcube events, news coverage of the game LAYOFF, video of Massively Multiplayer Mushu and Massively Multiplayer Soba, and more. ...
In our director Mary Flanagan's home state (coincidentally also home to D&D creator Gary Gygax and GenCon), Dungeons & Dragons is not allowed to be played in prison. In a recent New York Times article, prison officials were noted as saying that Dungeons & Dragons...
Composer Pauline Oliveros joins us in our weekly variable_d salon via the Dialogues. In Dialogues, students and members of the community come with ideas, themes, and questions and engage in a teleconferenced discussion of contemporary issues in the work. Past visitors have included Brenda Laurel, The...
Please join us in Hanover for an upcoming symposium at Dartmouth College, "Activism in the Electronic Age: The impact of technology on political protest" will examine the recent 2009 Iranian elections and other historic moments of activism involving the use of technology. Tuesday, February 9,...
Read about Gaming Angel's The Ten Most Influential Women In Games Of The Past Decade on Kotaku. Featured are Lucy Bradsahw (Sims, Spore), Kim Swift (Portal), and Kellee Santiago (Flower). ...
nick: so, I just have this question about the way you (and someone else) reacted to gender stereotyping in a nightmarish/dystopian/stereotypical game environments nick: you wrote While there are some glaring stereotypes that take away from its freshness and originality (especially in regard to gender; the character's wife is in the kitchen with a frying pan in the morning and tells the character he is late for work; the office execs are all male, etc.) about Every Day the Same Dream [previously on Post Position]
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 --...
Tiltfactor is interested in learning and in our context as an academic-focused research laboratory. The essay "Making College ‘Relevant" by Kate Zernike (Dec 29 2009) offers up an interesting take on "training" students for specific careers and jobs. While students and parents increasingly worry about...