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EGL's Pearce talks about E3 on NPR
An interview with Celia Pearce was part of KPCC’s Thursday report on the E3 game Expo. Pearce was co-curating the IndieCade Showcase of Independent Games, now in its third year as part of E3. IndieCade’s second annual festival will be held in Culver City, CA (Los Angeles), October 1-4. For more visit www.indiecade.com.
Ian Bogost and Students Remake Atari Emulators
Both Kotaku and Joystiq have articles about Ian Bogost and his students remaking Atari emulators to look better. You can read about it here and here.
Mads Haahr, Trinity College Dublin
April 27, 5pm, Skiles 002
Title: Saving the Dead Girl: Emotion and Gender in Ant Attack and ICO
Abstract: This talk is concerned with two games, Ant Attack (1983) and ICO (2001), which despite differences in time, origin and technical sophistication share remarkable similarities in their approach to story, aesthetics and gameplay. The two games are of particular interest because they have been successful in evoking sadness and
loss, which is a part of the emotional spectrum not easily accessible to game designers. The talk subjects the games to analysis in which a framework of Jungian archetypes are used to deconstruct story, aesthetics and gameplay and to show how the sophisticated use of archetypes strikes such powerful chords in the human psyche that it can explain the unusual degree of emotional involvement felt by players. The talk concludes that the careful use of archetypes is an untapped resource, which can help increase the emotional palette available to designers and hence help games mature as a medium.
Biography: Dr Mads Haahr is a Lecturer in Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin. He holds BSc and MSc degrees from the University of Copenhagen and a PhD from Trinity College Dublin. His research interests include mobile and ubiquitous computing, self-organising systems, interactive and location-aware narrative, computer game studies and artificial intelligence for games. He edits a multidisciplinary academic journal called Crossings: Electronic Journal of Art and Technology and also created and operates the true random number service RANDOM.ORG.
Metanomics Part 2: Research Methods Roundtable, Mon. 3/30, 11am PST
Monday, March 30, at 11am Pacific (SLT), Tom Boellstorff, myself and Thomas Malaby will be doing a follow up roundtable discussion in response to some of the issues that came up surrounding our last visit to the show. Stay tuned… For more, go here.
An interactive narrative group lead by Hank Blumenthal will be meeting in the EGL every other Friday at 3:30pm starting May 6th. If you would like more info email Hank at ( hankblumenthal at gmail dot com)
Behind the Curtain An Insider's View of the Making of Fusion Fall
Monday, March 9
3:00 – 4:30
Skiles 002
Join us for a roundtable discussion with the designers of the FusionFall MMOG as they discuss how this complex game, merging a variety of diverse cartoon properties was developed by a multi-national team.
Chris Waldron, Game Producer
Sam Lewis, Lead Game Designer
Mario Piedra, Creative Director
Matthew Schwartz, Mission Writer
Celia Pearce, Panel Moderator
www.fusionfall.com
METANOMICS: Av-Culturation - Celia Pearce and Tom Boellstorff March 2, Noon PST
METANOMICS: Av-Culturation
Host Robert Bloomfield and guests Celia Pearce and Tom Boellstorff Monday, March 2, Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time
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Celia Pearce on DigIn! Radio 2/2/09
Celia Pearce will be giving an interview on current and future trends in virtual worlds and multiplayer gaming on DigIn! Radio with Limor Schafman, online Monday February 2, 4pm EST.
An interview with Ben Fritz from Daily Variety aired on NPR’s The Business, January 19. For podcast, click here.
Pearce featured in Delta Sky Magazine Article about Gender and Gaming
The January issue of Delta Sky Magazine includes a wonderful article about gender and gaming, which includes commentary by the EGL’s Celia Pearce about her work on gender and gamin with Ludica.
