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What is a Research Game?

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: March 6, 2012

A number of people asked me to post my introductory slides from the “What is a Research Game” session at the Game Developers Conference yesterday. Here they are with my presenter notes.

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Getting Started with ABL

By Ben Weber | Published: February 24, 2012

While I have been advocating the use of reactive planning for over a year now, there is often a large amount of middleware between a game environment and the reactive planning agent that needs to be defined in order to make use of ABL in games. The goal of this article is to provide a […]

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Prom Week’s “Social Exchanges”

By Mike Treanor | Published: February 21, 2012

To celebrate Prom Week’s release on on Facebook and Kongegrate, we thought we’d share some of the details about what’s going on inside of the heads of Prom Week characters. As we’ve posted before, Prom Week is a game where the player gets to shape the social lives of 18 highschoolers by controlling what social actions they take […]

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Graeme Devine Talk Tomorrow at UCSC

By Peter Mawhorter | Published: February 21, 2012

Local Santa Cruz game developer and perennial guest speaker Graeme Devine is visiting UCSC tomorrow (Wednesday the 22nd) to give a talk titled “Social Games are DEAD!” In his own words: Everyone on the planet is rushing to add a social element to their game, picture app, music app, whatever app. Our widely held view […]

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Emily Short on Playable Narrative Systems

By Aaron A. Reed | Published: February 17, 2012

Interactive story author Emily Short spoke at UC Santa Cruz on Wednesday, as part of the ongoing Inventing the Future of Games speaker series. Emily, best known for her work on groundbreaking interactive fictions such as Galatea and Savoir-Faire, spoke about her recent work with Richard Evans (AI Lead on The Sims 3) developing an […]

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Prom Week Released on Facebook!

By Mike Treanor | Published: February 14, 2012

Delve into all the adolescent angst, drama, and scheming of the week before a high school prom in this online game, which uses a sophisticated artificial intelligence system to enable players to shape the social lives of 18 hapless high school students. Find dates for them, break up and make up, forge new friendships, make […]

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