News archive - May 2014

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

NEW FPS Essay: Identification or Desire?

This week's essay, entitled Identification or Desire: Taking the Player-Avatar Relationship to the Next Level, was written by GI faculty member Gerald Voorhees. He argues that the player-avatar relationship is fundamentally queer in nature.

Monday, May 12, 2014

CHI PLAY 2014 Call for Papers

As previously reported on the IMMERSe website: http://immerse-network.com/news-chi-play-2014-call-for-papers/ & the CHI PLAY website.

About the Conference

The ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY) is a new international and interdisciplinary conference series (sponsored by ACM SIGCHI) for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and human-computer interaction (HCI), we call it: “player-computer interaction”.

Thursday, May 8, 2014

IEEE GEM 2014 Conference Call for Papers – May 23, 2014 Deadline

As originally reported on the IMMERSe website.

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

"You Are Not a Banana" Now Available on Desura

Screenshot of the "You Are Not a Banana" start screen.

Brian Cullen’s You Are Not a Banana game is now available to buy on Desura ($2.99 USD). The game has a average rating of 7.4/10 and has drawn a lot of positive feedback.