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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:

April 12, UW's English Department hosted the Tri-University Graduate Symposium (TUGS) for English graduate students.

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 early assess trailer for March 2019 game Terrorarium by Stitch Media, a media development company based in Toronto. Games Institute members Adam Bradley, Michael Hancock, and Judy Ehrentraut collaborated with Stitch Media on Terrorarium through Mitacs partnerships.

GI alum Emma Vossen published an essay entitled "Why the 'Gamer Dress' is about so much more than just a dress" in response to Cranium Apparel's new eSports-inspired dress design and their tweet announcing the product.

GI Residents Caroline Wong, Rina Wehbe, and Robert P. Gauthier were among the competitors at the 2019 3MT (3 Minute Thesis) Competition. The 3MT challenges competitors to present their graduate research within 3 minutes on 1 static slide. 

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).

Sagan Yee, Executive Director of the Hand Eye Society, joined us Monday, March 4 to give a talk about playful media and experimental game design.