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Rapture through Russell
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Rapture Through Russell

Rapture through Russell
Bioshock and Bertrand Russell's Authority & the Individual

Many commentators and reporters have ascribed the downfall of BioShock’s Rapture – the Adam addicts, the horrifying cruelty and the shocking race towards self destruction – to the game’s desire to satirise the novel Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

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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

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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”.

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".

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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.