Khevna Joshi, blogger and game designer at Tiltfactor, won this year's Dartmouth Student Employee Contest in the category of academic/professional impact. Below is her essay on how Tiltfactor helped her build skills and knowledge to develop her resume! Upper Valley Senior Center, October 16, 1:00 PM...
Tiltfactor: Hey Nick! Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and the work that you are doing in the Tiltfactor lab? Nick: I am a Dartmouth ‘21 and I have been working at Tiltfactor since fall of this year. Currently, I work as...
Tiltfactor: Hi Spring! Can you tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do at Tiltfactor? Spring: I’m a Dartmouth ‘19, and I have been working at Tiltfactor on and off since my freshman spring. This is my 4th term working...
Although much of our research at Tiltfactor aims to increase the representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), our work also shines a light on the importance of the liberal arts. The students who work at Tiltfactor come from a broad range...
Mary is representing at the World Government Summit this February; it's an annual event held in Dubai, UAE that brings together governmental and thought leaders across the disciplines for dialogue about government, the environment, and technology. Mary will be contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals...
This week our director Mary Flanagan joins leaders from business, government, media, academia, and the arts in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum’s 48th annual meeting. Read more in the Dartmouth News....
We are excited to report that we have a new paper out! Published in Social and Personality Psychology Compass, our paper describes the potential of games as methods in social and personality psychology. We review the ways that games have been used in the past...
Earlier this year we entered a Tiltfactor prototype game, Continental Drift, into the 2017 Board Game Geek Two-Player Print and Play Design Contest. This week we were excited to learn that, out of over 30 entries, Continental Drift was voted: #1 Best New Mechanic #1 Best Use...
Tiltfactor has just started a local game development meet up --the Upper Valley Game Designers Meeting! Yes. First meeting is this Thursday, 6th July 2017, 6:30pkm at the lab, 245 Black Arts in Hanover NH. Mary will be speaking in Delft next week, held jointly by ISAGA (International...
This post is more technical than most of our blog posts. If you’re not making computer games then this probably won’t be of terrible interest to you. This happens all the time at Tiltfactor: we're developing a single player Unity game or Twine story prototype, and...