This summer I will be presenting my game-related work at Games+Learning+Society, Games for Change, Allied Media Conference, and DiGRA. Please let me know if you’ll be at any of these conferences or have any questions! Games+Learning+Society 9.0 (June 11-14, 2013 at University of Wisconsin-Madison) Tuesday, June 11 at 10:00am Co-leading workshop on “Building a Gameful […]
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Forbes & NPR Support ROC United’s fight for fare wages
We all enjoy eating out. Unfortunately, the workers who cook, prepare, and serve our food suffer from poverty wages, a lack of basic benefits like paid sick days, and often have little or no chance to move up to better positions. When the people who serve us food can’t afford to pay the rent or take […]
Cops & Rubbers Goes Dutch via Hivnieuws
Ejay de Wit, a Dutch reporter, interviewed Rachel Thomas from Open Society Foundation and me at the International AIDS Conference (IAC2012) for an article in Hivnieuws. Thanks to the article Hivnieuws European readers are eager to play Cops & Rubbers. We’re a little behind on launching the game to the public, but stay tuned – we hope to launch […]
Video highlighting The New Challenge Finalists 2012
I feel very fortunate to be among the finalists who received seed money from The New School’s The New Challenge. This video captures the essence of what TNS is achieving by providing its students with this funding opportunity. Most of the clips are from the exhibition and pitch event in April, which was an extremely […]
Pouring on the Queso at www.conque.so
Clay Ewing, my game design partner, has just launched a pilot for his latest project, Queso. I just finished working on a logo that I believe complements the project and will appeal to its target audience: educators and students. About Queso Being an educator and game designer Clay “gamified” (Google gamification if you’re not sure […]
UM launching MFA in Interactive Media in 2013
It’s official, the University of Miami is launching a new MFA in Interactive Media program starting in the 2012-13 academic year. There’s also an Interactive Media minor for undergraduates. I know I’m not alone sharing in the excitement of what’s to come with more interaction courses and projects coming out of the U. To learn […]
Humans vs. Mosquitoes to attack Come Out & Play San Francisco!
Humans vs. Mosquitoes is making its way to a third outdoor games festival this year. After creating quite a commotion at Come Out and Play in New York this summer, HvM will be buzzing about SoMA during the COAP San Francisco festival December 1-2, 2012. One notable difference from the 2 previous games festivals: COAP San […]
Humans vs. Mosquitoes at DCGames
Clay Ewing and I ran Humans vs. Mosquitoes at this year’s DC Games Festival held in West Potomac Park (just south of Lincoln Memorial and west of MLK Memorial). It was a pretty nice backdrop with the Washington Monument peaking out from behind the trees, and we even got a wave from Air Force One (it felt like it […]
Introducing UM’s SoC New Faculty
UM’s School of Communication welcomed 4 new faculty this academic year, and the South Florida Business Journal was kind enough to consider us and our research and creative interests as integral to southern Florida’s economic future. Here’s the full article. Also I love this intro. It would be wonderful if Clay and my serious games […]