Thursday, October 9, 2014
A Game Design Vocabulary
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Thursday, October 9, 2014
We Will Force Gaming to be Free
Monday, August 11, 2014
Gerald Voorhees published in Game Studies!
Monday, July 7, 2014
GI Faculty Dr. Coleman Featured on Waterloo Homepage!
GI faculty member Beth Coleman is currently being featured on the University of Waterloo homepage. Read the article
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Faculty member awarded for outstanding performance
As originally reported on May 28, 2014 on Uwaterloo's History website.
Congratulations, Ian Milligan!
Effective May 1, 2005, in accordance with the 2003 Faculty Salary Settlement, the University of Waterloo established an Outstanding Performance Fund to reward faculty members for outstanding contribution in teaching and scholarship.
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”. 
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
"You Are Not a Banana" Now Available on Desura
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.
Sunday, April 6, 2014
EGGNOGG visits PLAY
Makers of EGGNOGG visit the PLAY event at UW
Rachel and Paul Pridham, two of the three people responsible for the game EGGNOGG; developed by Kitchener indie studio Madgarden (http://madgarden.net/about/) will be making an appearance at the PLAY event this weekend around 6pm. Recently, EGGNOGG was nominated in a number of categories at the 2014 Canadian Video Game Awards, including "Best Indie Game" and "Best Casual Game".
Friday, February 21, 2014
Brian Cullen launches "You are not a Banana"
Brian Cullen is launching You Are Not A Banana, on Steam Greenlight. Although retro, YNB attempts to break with convention by emphasizing the importance of sound in the design of the game's missions/puzzles and by focusing on alternative themes, such as critiquing the art world and retelling personal narratives.
Brian Cullen was a postdoctoral fellow with the Games Institute and IMMERSe in 2012-2013. You can find more about Brian here.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Chantel Pilon sets a new Waterloo record
Chantel Pilon, UW athelete of the week, set five personal bests in the pentathlon and came away with a new Waterloo record after competing at the SPIRE Division 1 NCAA Invite in Geneva, Ohio. Her total score places Pilon as the second best in the OUA and fifth in the CIS. She also participated in the women’s 4x400m, where the team has the relay time ranked third in the OUA and seventh in the CIS. More details can be found here.