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Nick Montfort visits EIS and UCSC

By jmurray | Published: December 30, 2010

Nick Montfort will be joining us on January 10th-12th and will be giving two talks and a presentation of his literary work. Bio: Nick Montfort writes computational and constrained poetry, develops computer games, and is a critic, theorist, and scholar of computational art and media. He is associate professor of digital media in the Program […]

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As I Lay Dying!

By Teale Fristoe | Published: December 7, 2010

I’m pleased to announce the release of my latest game, As I Lay Dying! or, Teale’s Big Hike! It is a challenging puzzle platformer I began writing in the spring of 2010 for Noah Wardrip-Fruin‘s Playable Media course. You can play it free online here. I would love to hear what you think of it! […]

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Call for Papers: Games and Software Engineering Workshop 2011

By Chris Lewis | Published: December 6, 2010

I’ve attached after the jump the Call for Papers for the first ever Games and Software Engineering Workshop (GAS 2011), which will be held at ICSE 2011 in idyllic Honolulu, Hawaii! Jim and I have been working very hard getting everything together on what promises to be a great workshop, and we’re honored to have […]

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From Breakout to Space Invaders, All Over Again

By Adam M. Smith | Published: December 3, 2010

In the past, I’ve written about game design as a new domain for automated discovery, in which one might build discovery systems which uncovered new and interesting knowledge in game design. However, unless you are already familiar with discovery systems, all this might sound too blue-sky to even visualize. So what does it even mean […]

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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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