Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) is an interdisciplinary centre for research/ creation in game studies and design, digital culture and interactive art

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‘Atlantis Transcends’, My Educational Minecraft Experience

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The summer is coming and I am drinking in the sweet success of having finished my undergraduate. After four years of attending lecture after lecture, it was a refreshing change to attend ENGL 398E: Video Games and/as Theory in my last semester and do something a bit different. Our Professor Darren Wershler proposed a semester long project in Minecraft building whatever we would like on the unmodded TAG server. Naturally, telling a …

Jamming on Saint Patrick’s Day

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Saint Patrick’s Day weekend is over, and now that everyone has endured the punishing karma from overdrinking that is the hangover, wouldn’t you rather have been making a game that weekend instead? That was what over fifty participants did at the Dawson Game Jam, and over three days of working in the beautiful board room in Dawson College, they kissed the Blarney stone for good luck and came out at the end of the rainbow …

Reflections on Arcade 11

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After three days crammed full of video games, board games, button making, 3-D printing and a whole lot of fun, Arcade 11 has shut its doors and its organizers and volunteers can catch up on some well-deserved rest and recuperation. It was completely mind-boggling that so many people came to see the TAG lab show off the many projects and people that it is involved with, and explore a space where people were able to …