On Monday, I’ll be flying out to San Francisco to attend my first Game Developers Conference. I’m thrilled to finally have the chance to see the hustle and bustle of this event, and will at the very least, be tweeting about it while there. I’ll be presenting within a quick “blast session” about [...]

Yesterday was the final day of the Global Game Jam here at Miami, and saw each of our five teams working madly (and blearily) toward completion of their games. As the participants — fueled by doughnuts — caught their third (or fourth or fifth) wind, the games started coming together.

Art and sound assets were [...]

On the second day of the Global Game Jam, I had much less to report — not for lack of interesting things going on, but, because, after a point, the training wheels were off and every team was deep into development mode — today’s recap is mainly pictures, with a little connective text.
I showed up [...]

It’s the beginning of the second day of the Global Game Jam here at Miami. If you’re unfamiliar with the Global Game Jam, it’s a pretty simple idea — a group of teams gets together at a location somewhere in the world, finds out this year’s theme and constraints, and then has 48 hours [...]

Well, this blog sure hasn’t been updated very often lately, but I hope you’ll forgive me — it’s been quite the busy past few months with a number of exciting new developments in my life.
Two weeks ago, I started my position as the C. Michael Armstrong Professor in Interactive Media Studies, as an Assistant Professor [...]

Well, it’s getting to be that time again — the Games+Learning+Society 6.0 conference has been officially announced, with a call for papers posted to the official conference website. (Looks like this year’s elfgirl colors are a pretty pink, green, and aqua?) Here’s a blurb from the conference coordinator on this year’s focus and [...]

I’m working on revising a draft of my dissertation thesis at the moment, and, on a flight of fancy, decided to see what a Wordle of my entire dissertation would look like. A Wordle is basically a pretty graphical representation of word counts in any document — the higher number of occurences for a [...]

I’m beginning to prep several new courses to teach at Miami in the spring, as I’m also finishing up the dissertation. I recently posted about the Games and Learning course I’ll be piloting next semester, and I’ll also be teaching a section of IMS238 — Narrative In Digital Technology. Historically, the course has been [...]

As I work on finishing up my dissertation this term, I’m also in the early stages of planning my courses for the Spring, 2010 term at Miami. I’ll be teaching two courses — Interactive Media Studies 238 (Narrative and Digital Media) and Interactive Media Studies 390.S (Games and Learning). I’m starting to try [...]