Thursday 12 November 2009 at Dartmouth College Feeling PLAYFUL this Autumn? Join us anytime 4-7pm this Thursday, 12th of November for a TILTFACTOR OPEN HOUSE! Visit Dartmouth's GAME RESEARCH LABORATORY, Tiltfactor (https://tiltfactor.org). ENCOUNTER our research with the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Values at Play, and the...
Tiltfactor's Mary Flanagan will be speaking with several other internationally recognized social impact game makers on the panel, "Designing For Impact: Where the Talk Meets the Walk," Montreal Games Summit, November 16-17, 2009. "As the medium of games matures and new experimentation and exploration of...
A news piece on Tiltfactor's metadata project aired Sept. 29 on WCAX-Channel 3, Vermont's statewide television station based in Burlington. The piece features project director Mary Flanagan and one of her students, Danielle Arostegui, from Dartmouth. A print story also appears on the station's...
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,"...
Registration is now open for IndieCade 2009: the International Festival of Independent Games, October 1-4, 2009 at multiple locations throughout Downtown Culver City, 15 minutes from Downtown L.A. IndieCade is the only independent gaming festival in the US open to the public. Organizers will...
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...
This blog post seems to be getting much more attention than we had expected. It was originally concocted to be a quick set of notes for an introductory "what is machinima" presentation conducted by students in our class...
the PLAYCUBE is home to a performative sweatshop today as students trace where all of their 'free campus t-shirts' come from; taking place on the Dartmouth College campus, 1-3pm today. Next week, on the 26th of August, we will host a locally produced Machinima show...
It looks like we have a bound book date for Critical Play, Mary Flanagan's new book! The time is now! watch for it. Eric Zimmerman says, "In Critical Play, Flanagan uncovers a secret history of games buried deep inside folk culture, experimental media, and the...
E McNeill, a friend to Tiltfactor and one of Dartmouth's own, constitutes the only one-person game making 'team' at this year's Imagine Cup, the world's premier student technology competition! He's a finalist in the Game and Development competition. He is showcasing his game ALTERNEX in...