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Inventing the Future of Games – Today

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: April 15, 2011

Inventing the Future of Games is a one-day symposium happening today in Silicon Valley. It gathers some of the brightest minds from universities and industry to discuss potential futures of game design and technology. To follow/discuss on Twitter the tag is #IFOG2011, and for updates afterward you can connect with the UC Santa Cruz Center […]

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Interactive Storytelling: Preparing Students to Innovate

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: March 1, 2011

This morning I gave a talk in the GDC Education Summit — Interactive Storytelling: Preparing Students to Innovate — and I’m posting my slides below. As for the topic, my talk description ended up being pretty accurate: We want students to create innovative games, but innovation in interactive storytelling can be hard to imagine for […]

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Job: Game Center Associate Director at UC Santa Cruz

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: November 29, 2010

At UC Santa Cruz we’re looking for someone to help us conceptualize, launch, and run a new “Center for Games and Playable Media.” We’re seeking someone who would be interested in representing Santa Cruz at events, working with the new center’s affiliates (in industry, government, etc), imagining how new game research technologies could be made […]

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What’s Next Thursday: The Future of Gaming and Social Media

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: November 22, 2010

NextSpace in Santa Cruz is ending its 2010 What’s Next lectures with a talk titled “Choose Your Own Adventure: The Future of Gaming and Social Media” — 7 p.m. Thursday, December 2, on the UC Santa Cruz campus. Our own Michael Mateas will be one of the panelists, along with CBS Interactive’s Simon Whitcombe and […]

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Expressive Processing reviews: three perspectives

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: June 1, 2010

The first reviews of Expressive Processing have begun to appear, and the three I’ve seen come from three distinct perspectives: a game development veteran who has become a professor, an industry computer scientist with an AI background, and a public relations intern with a games-focused website. I think the collection of perspectives is interesting, but […]

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Beyond the Screen, Reading Moving Letters, and more!

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: March 26, 2010

I have lots of book news to share. The quick news is that Kotaku’s running an excerpt from Expressive Processing and MIT Press has now published a paperback of Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media — taking the price down to around $15 at online booksellers. The bigger news is two […]

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