For those who have been following my Gaming the Immigration System project and the status of Make a Move (Toma El Paso in Spanish), I’m happy to announce that the game has been translated into Spanish and is now available for purchase! I’ve been working with local immigration experts here in Miami (thank you Americans […]
Category: Games
Vanity 2.0 now available
In Fall 2013 Clay Ewing and I went back and did some tweaking to the original Vanity game. Some of the changes were to make the gameplay more user friendly, like eliminating the moles all together and instead using stackers that move along a numbered column to track your fitness, tan, style, and health risk. […]
Extreme Candy wins Best Game at Global Game Jam!
I teamed up with Clay Ewing (@claytical), Joel Acosta (@LoseTV), and Brian Deltoro in this year’s Global Game Jam from January 24-26. FIU’s Game Developers Guild kindly hosted us and got sponsors to provide food and drinks to fuel all of us through the 48-hour game jam! Our game Extreme Candy Photo Bomb Scavenger Memory […]
Put Yourself in a Sex Worker’s Shoes – and there might just be a condom in it
Now everyone can put themselves in the shoes of a sex worker – just don’t get caught with a condom in your shoe like Naomi here. Cops and Rubbers is now available for free PDF download or you can purchase an official printed version from the Open Society Foundations (OSF)’s website! Check out the OSF Cops […]
Summer 2013 Conference Schedule
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]