The U.S. intelligence community relies on anticipatory thinking, visualizing what might happen based on relevant known facts, to provide critical insight during the intelligence analysis process. Providing a diverse collection of training examples — stories where imagined bad actors form and pursue potentially nefarious goals — is both knowledge-intensive and time-consuming. However, systems to produce […]
Read MoreThe EAE Game Lecture Series Presents: Title: Doing Games With Science: The Science of Designing and Developing Human Computation Games Speaker: Kristin Siu Date: Feb 6, 3:30-4:30pm Location: Building 72, RM 115 Open to the public Description: From tagging cat images to folding proteins, players have solved a variety of difficult crowdsourcing and scientific problems with games. Making these […]
Read MoreThe EAE Game Lecture Series Presents: Title: Different by Design: The Theory and practice of Crafting Alternative Video Game Controllers & Storytelling Speaker: Eddie Melcer Date: Feb 1, 3:30-4:30pm Location: EAE Games Studio (Building 72, Level 2) Open to the public Description: In a general sense, alternative controllers circumvent the use of standard input control schemes (e.g., gamepad or […]
Read MoreThe Global Game Jam® is the world’s largest game jam event taking place around the world at physical locations. Think of it as a hackathon focused on game development. It is the growth of an idea that in today’s heavily connected world, we could come together, be creative, share experiences and express ourselves in a […]
Read MoreThe EAE Game Lecture Series Presents: Title: Cardboard Fantasies: Board Game Design & Storytelling Speaker: Ryan Laukat & Alf Seegert Date: Feb 1, 5-6pm Location: EAE Games Studio (Building 72, Level 2) Open to the public Description: Join us for a discussion about how to tell a story in board game design by designers Ryan Laukat and Alf Seegert. […]
Read MoreThe EAE Game Lecture Series Presents: Title: Call of Duty Analytics Speaker: Justin Shacklette Date: Jan 29, 5-6pm Location: EAE Games Studio (Building 72, Level 2) Open to the public Description: Call of Duty is one of the biggest entertainment franchises in history. Every single game you play generates megabytes upon megabytes of data. Go behind-the-scenes with one of […]
Read MoreThe EAE Game Lecture Series Presents: Title: More Than a Movie: Cinematic Design in Games Speaker: Ashley Kuhl Date:Jan 25, 5-6pm Location: EAE Games Studio (Building 72, Level 2) Open to the public Description: Cinematic design in games, while a very niche field, is an important addition to narrative games that visually communicate the story. But unlike film, […]
Read MoreThe EAE Game Lecture Series Presents: Title: Tales From the User Research Crypt Speaker: Kelly Boudreau Date: Dec. 7th, 5-6pm Location: EAE Games Studio (Building 72, Level 2) Open to the public Description: Don’t fancy a career in games user research? Just want to make games!? How a class (or two) on GUR helps you make better games (and […]
Read MoreThe EAE Game Lecture Series Presents: Title: Games as Psychedelic Experiences Speaker: Cory Davis Date: Nov 16th, 5-6pm Location: EAE Games Studio (Building 72, Level 2) Open to the public Description: An invitation to consider the unmatched power of games to create intense, emotionally affecting, even hallucinatory experiences. Let’s take a strange trip through psychedelic movements past and present […]
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