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Gada Jane, Creative Director of Velvet Icons Productions and Research Associate at the GI, will be leading an iLunch session for Interactive Ontario called "Positioning Within the Global VR Industry" on May 28. She will discuss diverse approaches to creating, funding, and distributing Virtual Reality (VR) content worldwide.

John Harris successfully defended his Computer Science PhD thesis on April 30th, 2019 - the Games Institute would like to extend a loud and proud congratulations to Dr. Harris!

Dr. Harris has been a member of the Games Institute since Fall term 2013, studying asymmetric games as a means of promoting inclusiveness and getting more kinds of people playing together. Check out the YouTube video below to see Dr. Harris present a summative discussion of his PhD research:

GI member John Harris won third place, with a $5,000 grant, at the Velocity Graduate Student Fund finals for his pitch to develop his enterprise, The Playful Pixel. Harris is a PhD student in Computer Science studying asymmetric games as a means of promoting inclusiveness and getting more kinds of people playing together.

Watch the full recording of our Multidisciplinary Panel about Cooperative Games that took place Thursday, March 14th, 2019. Our three PhD student speakers discussed co-operative games as a genre through their  perspectives and experiences with the games Spirit Island (2017; board game) and Overcooked 2 (2018; video game).