This year’s DiGRA will be hosted in Atlanta at the beautiful, historica Georgian Terrace Hotel Hotel. The conference is co-chaired by Celia Pearce, John Sharp and Helen Kennedy. For more visit the DiGRA 2013 Conference Web Site.
The first ever exhibit celebrating the work of women game designers, XYZ: Alternative Voices in Game Design, will take place at the Museum of Design Atlanta July 14-September 2, 2013. For more visit the Museum Web Site, the Exhibition Web Site, or our Facebook Page. This project is a partnership between the Museum of Design Atlanta and Georgia Tech, and curated by Celia Pearce, Akira Thompson, John Sharp, and Cindy Poremba.
Launched in October of 2011, PlayStation Home Destinations is a total redesign of the public spaces of PlayStation’s virtual world. Celia Pearce worked as a consultant for Sony developing the basic concept, the genre-themes and components for each area, the hub functionality, the questing concept, and the over-arching refocusing of Home as a community for gamers. She then brought in Friends Jay Fisher and Justin Jorgensen, theme park designers extraordinaire, to art direct their very first video game project. Destinations also includes games from Codename, the indie game label I co-founded with partners from IndieCade and Psychic Bunny. PlayStation Home is also an IndieCade sponsor. Check out the promo video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuOZgndEBRk
Image and Video Copyright 2011 Sony Computer Entertainment
I’m pleased to announce that the first paper has been published about the AbTeC project, which I worked on with Skawennati Fragnito and Jason Lewis. The paper can be found here. (I’m not listed as a co-author which is fine, I was only involved in the initial ideation of the project.)
IndieCade 2010 took place October 8-10 in Downtown Culver City. For more in the festival finalists, awards and other events, visit the IndieCade Website.
I have a talk at ITU Copenhagen while visiting for one month in the Fall of 2010. Click this link to see the video of my talk: Strange Bedfellows: New Discoveries through the Merger of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
For more on my new book, visit www.communitiesofplay.com
IndieCade 2009 in Culver City was a huge success, so much so that I forgot to post about it. You can see a list of Finalists and Awards here.
