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Lindsay Meaning on analyzing game adaptations of literary works

Monday, November 5, 2018 by Marisa Benjamin

Lindsay Meaning gave a Brown Bag talk on the process of adapting a literary text into a video game on Tuesday, October 16. Meaning is a second-year English PhD candidate whose research interests include video game adaptations and representations of settler-colonialism and imperial ideologies in roleplaying games.

According to Meaning, game adaptations are often looked down on - misconceived as "cashing in on a popular franchise". And when game adaptations of literary texts are studied, they are frequently analyzed for how faithful they are to the source material.

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Rina Wehbe at the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2018

Wednesday, October 17, 2018 by Marisa Benjamin

Rina Wehbe, Games Institute resident and Computer Science PhD student, attended and mentored at the 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) in Houston, Texas.

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Tina Chan for TEDxUW: Bandaids for Mental Health

Monday, October 15, 2018 by Marisa Benjamin

Tina Chan, GI resident and Masters of Science candidate in the School of Public Health and Health Systems, was a speaker at this year's TEDxUW conference. She took the stage to share the story of how she came to develop the Panic Anxiety Stress Support (PASS) kit.

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Tina Chan speaks to the media about Mental Health

Monday, April 22, 2019 by Games Institute

Tina Chan, M.Sc. candidate in Applied Health Sciences has been speaking with the media recently as her work on mental health support and mental health gameful design gains traction.

BBC Toronto Interview with Dan Lytwyn

April 12, 2019