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This week, we have someone from to the Concordia University community! It’s Dr. Pippin Barr!
As many of you probably know, Pippin Barr is a videogame maker, educator, and critic who lives and works in Montréal. He is an Assistant Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University and the Associate Director of the Technoculture, Art, and Games (TAG) Research Centre. Pippin is a prolific maker of videogames, producing work addressing everything from airplane safety instructions, to …

Welcome back for another episode! This week, we have our chat with Montreal-based game maker narF!
narF is a game designer by day and a podcaster by night. Interested in the decentralized web, planning the demise of the internet giants and making weird sounds with virtual synths on a Raspberry Pi.
As always, available for you to listen at the ConnectingToGame website, on Apple Podcasts, or Spotify.

Episode 10! This time around, we’ve got an interview with local game designer Kyler Kelly-Tan!
Kyler grew up wanting to be a physicist, but discovered 3D animation in his teens, which led him to study art and animation in university. He co-founded Clever Endeavour Games to create Ultimate Chicken Horse. In the past year, they’ve taken on the challenge of coming up with new game ideas and prototypes, and are working on their next game.
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Hard to believe we’re on episode 9 already, but here we are! This week, we have another Milieux/Tag/mLab alum, Dr. Dan Staines.
Dr. Dan Staines is a game scholar and critic from Sydney, Australia. When he is not thinking about new and exciting ways to cram morality into videogames, Dan spends his time teaching game design and nerding out about comedy.
You can contact Dan and find examples of his work at his infrequently updated website: www.danstaines.com
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