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...
Check out local news footage here. Seven people were arrested at a war protest in Northeast Philadelphia this early May at a $12 million military gaming center at a mall which uses simulators (a-la America's Army) to lure in potential soldiers at age 13 and up.
So far the center has recruited twice as efficiently as rival, non-digital centers.
“War is not a game!” "You can't simulate the heat. You can't you know the cries of people who are getting killed. You can't simulate the noise when things are exploding around you," said Jesse Hamilton, an Iraq War Veteran who served in the Army.
The Army Experience Center presents the teenagers with video games in hopes that they might learn about life in the military. At least the Army believes games to be be educational!
In his recent book On Deep History and The Brain, Daniel Lord Smail looks at how humans are tied to pleasure and stress release on a biological level. He uses “psychotropic,” a term usually associated with drugs, to describe social and systematic effects on human...
Jonathan Zittrain visited us at Dartmouth today. He's a Professor at Harvard Law School and Co-Founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He spoke as part of a lecture series of interest to Tiltfactor at ISTS. In "Civic Technologies and the Future of...
Monday April 13th, 2009 4:30 pm "The Ludic Century - In the Future, Everyone Will be a Game Designer" Dartmouth Campus, Hanover NH in the room L01 Carson (attached to the Baker Berry Library) Game designer Eric Zimmerman kicks off our Spring 2009 Lecture series here...
March 12 2009: 'Resident Evil 5' Reignites Debate About Race in Videogames: The latest installment of Capcom's "Resident Evil" franchise pits a white hero against African Zombies" by Jamin Brophy-Warren. Resident Evil 5 is controversial, and our team talks about it. ...
Tiltfactor Mary Flanagan is speaking with fellow Dartmouth Professor Hany Farid in Los Angeles at the DCLA March Seminar, March 13 2009....
Tiltfactor hosts a weekly salon every Tuesday at 4pm during the Fall, Spring, and Summer terms at Dartmouth College. Join us! The Salon is made possible by the Dartmouth Digital Arts and Humanities Initiative. Please Join Us!!!...
https://tiltfactor.org winter 2009 Dartmouth College open hours: monday 10 - 12, 2 - 6 tuesday 10 - 2, 4 - 5:30 SALON wednesday 10 - 6 thursday 10 - 2...