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At long last, some documentary video from Eric Kabisch’s and my Bizarro Game Controllers studio, held at TEI 2011. It looks like a crazy hackathon, but in fact, some people attending had no experience with hardware, and some couldn’t really program — since we convinced people to form groups to work together, each group had a range of skills and were all able to put together something fun and interesting. All this stuff was made …
TAG TALK – FRIDAY MARCH 18 at 12:15pm in the Hexagram Resource Room (EV-11-705)
Jeremy Hunsinger, Applying COTS games in class: The twice hidden curriculum of computer games
I just got back from the conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (the E in TEI apparently exists in a probabilistic state between “embedded” and “embodied”). I’ve always thought this conference had a clear relevance to people interested in innovative game controllers, but this year they had a session entirely around Games and Narrative. I also did a “Bizarro Game Controllers” workshop with another former UCI student, Eric Kabisch. That will go up soon, since I still have some video to deal with from that.
A conference on Tangibles will approach games largely from the angle of doing interesting things with game controllers, and that’s exactly what we saw in three out of four papers. Karen and Josh Tanenbaum’s paper was the last in the session (and one of the best at the conference) and actually dealt elegantly with both tangible objects and narrative, where the two are entirely integral to one another.
Keep reading to get the particulars on: Digital Games for Physical Therapy, Mixed Reality Robot Gaming, an Embodied Puppet Interface, and the interactive narrative of the Reading Glove.
Hope you all had a great holiday. For a hair of the dog, and game play and study, drop by TAG lab at EV11.425. BYOB
This week our ad hoc CFP committee will discuss ideas for the new year. (Who is on the committee? Why you, if you drop in). Afterwards the MRGS is throwing their monthly get together at 7:30.
See you Wednesday, 5 January, 2011 at 5pm.
On November 26th Genviève Lord will be giving a talk titled “Looking for Loot” at 1 PM in the Hexagram Resource Room (EV 11.705). Join us for the last TAG talk of the semester for an engaging and audience involving talk before you head off for winter break!
If life is an RPG, where is the plan, who sets the goals? Diverse thoughts and anecdotes on life in games.
With a programming background complemented by a …
I’d like to thank everyone who came last week, including our guest speaker Ramy Daghstani and his presentation on the CART club and how to get involved. I’d also like to thank everyone who came to Maude’s fantastic talk on Friday, excerpts of the talk will be posted on the blog this week for those who missed it.
Join us this Wednesday for our weekly shenanigans, there will be hair cutting, card game playtesting, and arguments …