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 line-up of [...]

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 word, [...]

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 crosslisted [...]

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 to drum [...]

Just a quick note that today I began semi-regular posting on Miami’s Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies’ (AIMS) blog. Today’s post was just a short introduction to me and what I study, but it’s something. I talk a bit about my interests in studying online communities, design thinking within them, and games: So, a [...]

Both gaming and music blogs have been abuzz the last few days over Harmonix’s announcement that they’re developing a new Rock Band Network in which any band — unsigned, indie, or major label — can submit tracks for download and purchase via Rock Band. That is, they’re starting a new digital distribution method for music, [...]

Whew, what a tiring month. Since mid-May, I’ve been out and about at several interesting conferences — all games-related and all communities that I’d like to continue to be a part of in the coming years. First, I was on a panel about promoting the “designer mindset” at the Games For Change (G4C) festival at [...]

It’s been a long road, but I’m happy to announce that I’ve accepted a position as the School of Education, Health, and Society C. Michael Armstrong Professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. It’s an endowed, tenure-track, joint position between the School of Education, Health, and Society (EHS) and Miami’s Armstrong Interactive Media Studies (AIMS) [...]

As I posted a few months ago, I’ve been interested in retro gaming and older games as of late. And, as I was financially unable to attend GDC — that bastion of what’s latest, greatest, and interesting in new games right now — I figured I might blog a bit about some of these older [...]