Members of the Tiltfactor team attended the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco and presented research on games designed for our BIAS project! Geoff introduced our work by discussing the goals of our lab and the theories behind our BIAS research. We...
This week is the Digital Arts Exhibition at Dartmouth! All week long FAB(rication) Lab has been going on in the Hopkins center with students and visitors learning about programming, animation, and many other subjects that combine art and technology! Tomorrow (Thursday, May 9th) from 7pm to...
This week at the annual Game Developer's Conference Education Summit, Tiltfactor Director Mary Flanagan has been called out to a 'Game Design Curriculum Deathmatch,' where leading game design instructors battle it out by revealing secrets to their game design teaching, their design philosophies, and pedagogical quirks. Speakers include...
The following is the second in a 3-part series of posts by Tiltfactor student interns. Metadata Games is a NEH-funded open source project that uses games to help crowdsource archive and library holding tags. Below, interns Alannah and Rebecca briefly describe their process for designing...
Carnage is a weekend of tabletop gaming in Fairlee, Vermont. Typically held during the first week in November, now in its 15th year, Carnage is "dedicated to playing the best and newest in games, including board games, card games, miniatures, and role-playing games." If you...
If you're at IndieCade this weekend, you're in for a special Tiltfactor treat: sets are available of our latest game, the riotously fun party card game buffalo. Stop by the Gamer gardens booth behind the registration tent and see what it's about! ...
Today was the official opening of the new Black Family Visual Arts Center at Dartmouth, the new home of Tiltfactor! Thanks to the Black Family, the other donors, and everyone who made "Black Arts" become a reality! Also, a shout out to everyone who stopped...
What a busy summer at the Tiltfactor Laboratory! As we have been preparing for GenCon and working on our games, we also spent some time at the AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH hosting a Gamecrafting Workshop for local youth. We had a wonderful week getting...
For Immediate Release Contact: info @ maryflanagan.com August 1, 2012 (Hanover, NH) - Tiltfactor Laboratory proudly presents two new games: buffalo™ and Awkward Moment™. buffalo is a card game of quick wits and zany combinations that requires players to flex their recollection muscles. In each round, players...
Games for Health was awesome! Two weeks ago I gave a talk and demo at Ludica Medica II: Medical Modeling, Simulation, Learning & Training with Videogames & Videogame Technologies, an all-day event as part of the Games for Health Conference week in Boston. The...