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Humanities-Based Game Design

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: February 13, 2012

Prom Week is about to be released and Expressive Processing is about to come out in paperback — a confluence that has me thinking about humanities-based game design, something I’ve been more actively mulling since an NSF workshop on the Future of Research in Computer Games and Virtual Worlds that UCI hosted in 2010. Obviously […]

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The future of game dialogue

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: February 9, 2012

Two new pieces of writing this morning have me thinking about the future of game dialogue. Clint Hocking suggests that our cultural expectations of dialogue need to change — dialogue isn’t bad because it’s written as a way of players coming to understand their impact on the game world. He talks about an “evolution of […]

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Prom Week Authoring: Crafting Procedurally-Driven Narratives

By Aaron A. Reed | Published: February 9, 2012

Hello! I’m Aaron A. Reed, lead writer on Prom Week, and I wanted to talk a bit about the challenges the writing team faced bringing eighteen characters to life during the most exciting week of their lives. (So far, at least… I’m pretty sure Lil is going to go on to do great things.) I’ve […]

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Vote Prom Week for the IGF Audience Choice Award!

By Josh McCoy | Published: February 6, 2012

It is our pleasure to present Prom Week’s Audience Choice Special Release! Please enjoy playing this version of Prom Week — we would very much appreciate your vote in the 2012 Independent Games Festival Games: Main Competition Audience Award.

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Cecil Brown on Games Blacks Love to Play

By Chaim Gingold | Published: February 6, 2012

Dr. Cecil Brown began his lecture Games Blacks Love to Play by citing Marshall McLuhan’s 1964 observation that the games people play mirror the surrounding culture. Brown uses this stance—that games teach us about the culture they come from—to explore the history of African Americans, the interplay between black and white play cultures, and the […]

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Prom Week a finalist in Technical Excellence at IGF 2012

By Mike Treanor | Published: January 13, 2012

We are very excited to announce that Prom Week has been nominated as a finalist in Technical Excellence for the 2012 Independent Games Festival! We’ll be posting more info about Prom Week, how it works, and information about our release date soon. Whooo hooooo!!!

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