http://egl.lcc.gatech.edu Game research lab of the School of Literature, Communication & Culture at Georgia Tech Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:02:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en NPR quotes Ian Bogost in their article about the enduring popularity Nintendo's Mario. http://egl.lcc.gatech.edu/?p=172 Alibaba and Forbes interview Ian Bogost as part of an article on the rising popularity of brain games and its importance to the video game genre. Gamasutra reposts Bogost's blogpost on crossovers as part of their Expert Blogger feature. http://egl.lcc.gatech.edu/?p=171 How to Think About Narrative and Interactivity will be available over a live videostream at http://lcc.gatech.edu/graduate/live. This historic event will be taking place on Tuesday, October 20th, 4:30-6:00pm. http://egl.lcc.gatech.edu/?p=170 Gamasutra has a feature on iterative game design, using Ian Bogost's theory of Unit Operations as its basis. http://egl.lcc.gatech.edu/?p=169 Colloquium: How to Think About Narrative and Interactivity Please save 4:30-6 Tuesday October 20th for a reprise of the conversation from DAC 1999 ... and the surprising next stage of the Ludology/Narratology discussion, featuring... Espen Aarseth Janet Murray Fox Harrell Each panelist will speak for 15 minutes, followed by 30 minutes of mutual questioning and ... http://egl.lcc.gatech.edu/?p=167 Kotaku and Tonic quote Ian Bogost in their articles on self-adjusting video games and the Super Guide, Nintendo's latest feature. Read the articles here and here. http://egl.lcc.gatech.edu/?p=166 CELIA PEARCE LECTURE & BOOK SIGNING Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds (MIT Press) By Celia Pearce, Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication & Culture October 15, 12:00PM – 1:00PM—Barnes & Noble at Georgia Tech (Upstairs) 48 5th Street Northwest Atlanta, GA 30308 - (404) 894-2517 http://egl.lcc.gatech.edu/?p=165 Students in SDSU's Exploratory Learning through Games and Simulations discuss Dr. Ian Bogost's newsgames research and game development as exemplifying the potential for video games to educate the public on social and political issues. Read the blog entry here. http://egl.lcc.gatech.edu/?p=163 Purple Pawn has an article on game scholarship that includes Optical Chess, a game designed by the Synaesthetic Media Lab for their Tangible Tracking Table project. Read the article here. http://egl.lcc.gatech.edu/?p=161 Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 4:30-6:00pm Skiles 002 The Ghost and the Machine: Mediation and Horror in Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly ABSTRACT: For psychological horror games, a particularly interesting characteristic is their common use of mediation as a means to connect the 'ordinary' game world with a hidden supernatural (and invariably frightening) game world ... http://egl.lcc.gatech.edu/?p=160