Come celebrate the new year with TAG at our first 5a7 Symposium of the semester, next Thursday, January 16, from 5-7pm. Are you curious about TAG and want to know more about what goes on there? Have you been itching to check out that fancy room known as the Hexagram Game Lab? Well this is a great opportunity to do both! You’ll also get to meet some awfully cool people (if I do say so …

For our last 5à7 of 2013  postdoctoral fellow Rob Gallagher will be giving a talk on videogames and their connection to the electronic music genre known as grime. A full description is below:

‘In the spirit of Anglo-Canadian cultural exchange, I wanted to give a brief presentation looking at how videogames figure in grime, a genre of electronic music that emerged out of early ‘00s East London. Various games are sampled by producers and alluded to …

Ask Dr. Mario! The Postdocs (TM) on coping with academic drama

Hot on the heels of her recent blog post, TAG postdoc Jen is teaming up with co-postdoc Thorsten in order to share insights into the many potential frustrations of academia and how to overcome them as a junior scholar. In short, they are going to share their embarrassing mistakes so that you don’t have to make them yourself. (We hope this gives you more time …

Crusader Kings II is a game which suffers from an unusually steep learning curve, a complex, intimidating interface, and a “sandbox” approach lacking clearly-defined goals. Despite this, its unique form of gameplay has attracted a lot of attention recently. This workshop will help the curious overcome initial difficulties in understanding the game, and serve as an introduction to what makes it special.

Crusader Kings II might look like a strategy game, but in some ways it …

First 5à7 at the MLAB!

This week the TAG 5à7 will take place at the shiny new Concordia game lab: the MLAB!
The MLAB is working closely with TAG and this 5à7 will be a way to officially introduce the new space, equipment, and resources to students interested in learning more about it and about the research that gets done there.

The MLAB is located in FB 501, on the 5th floor of the Concordia Faubourg building, 1250 …

This Thursday we’ll be showing off some of the games from last weekend’s jams, The Downtown Trimester Game-Making Adventure (DTGMA) and The Boob Jam, both of which were hosted at Concordia.
Breastfeeding bat: covers themes from both jams!
Some of the games that will be there include:
Mother Gear Solid by Stuart Thiel, Nick Kornick, Edoiard Blanc and Jessica Marcotte
Whack A Head ( temporary title) by Narf, “a multiplayer game where you smash your face on your iPhone …