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Henry Lowood Talk at UCSC

By Gillian Smith | Published: February 14, 2010

“Players are Artists, Too” Henry Lowood, Stanford University Date: Thursday, February 18th Time: 2:00pm Place: Digital Media Theater, UCSC Hosted By: Noah Wardrip-Fruin This lecture is free and open to the public, but visitors should purchase a parking pass from the visitor kiosk at the main entrance. There they can also provide a map showing […]

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Michael Neff Talk at UCSC

By Gillian Smith | Published: February 10, 2010

“Animating the Gesture Style of Particular Individuals” Michael Neff, UC Davis Date: Friday, February 12th Time: 12:00pm Place: Engineering 2, Room 599 Hosted By: Professor Marilyn Walker, Dept. of Computer Science This lecture is free and open to the public, but visitors should purchase a parking pass from the visitor kiosk at the main entrance. […]

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Interactive Storytelling of the Less-Virtual Variety

By Sherol Chen | Published: February 5, 2010

What do American Idol, lonelygirl15, and Invisible Children have in common? They were all instituted to function based off of mass audience interactions and they all deliver strong and dramatically-compelling narratives.  The idea of interactive preexists video games and virtual worlds, and it’s alway refreshing to go back and examine new ways that interactivity plays out in […]

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Playable Fictions MFA deadline nears

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: January 30, 2010

At UC Santa Cruz, the Digital Arts and New Media MFA program is organized around collaborative research groups. For those applying this year (deadline February 15th) I’ll be leading a group on the theme “Playable Fictions.” This is a great way for writers, game designers, and related sorts of digital media artists to get an […]

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Help Us Bring Deeper Characters to Kodu

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: January 27, 2010

EIS PhD student Teale Fristoe spent last summer at Microsoft Research working on Kodu, the exciting new platform for game creation. Now we’re developing a proposal to extend Kodu with support for deeper characters, social situations, and dynamic stories — providing the first high-level computational support for the kinds of games that research shows girls […]

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Global Game Jam Featuring Awesome Speakers

By Teale Fristoe | Published: January 25, 2010

The second annual global game jam at UCSC is coming up, kicking off on Friday, January 29th. But even if you aren’t participating in the jam, you should still come by the Simularium at 4:00 pm on Friday to check out the great speakers we have lined up. This year, you’ll get to hear from: […]

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