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A fake jam where you make pretend games

It’s not located anywhere and you don’t have to program anything. FPS is looking for written descriptions of the processes and procedures that make up a game, called procedural poems. So, what makes it a jam? First of all there’s a prize.

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.

IMMERSe researcher Oliver Kreylos tried SensoMotoric Instruments', a company with around 20 years of experience in vision-based eye tracking hardware and software, prototype integrating the camera-based eye tracker from their existing eye tracking glasses with an off-the-shelf Oculus Rift DK1 HMD.

Read his full blog post

GI Janes' co-founder Elise Vist was featured in a Waterloo Stories article for her work raising the profile of women in gaming. Read the full article below.

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.

Read the full essay on First Person Scholar's web site now!

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”.

As originally reported on the IMMERSe website.

IEEE Games, Entertainment, & Media (GEM) 2014 (formerly IEEE International Games Innovation Conferences (IGIC))
October 22-24, 2014
University of Toronto Chestnut Conference Centre
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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.

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".

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.

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FPS Pseudo Game Jam Begins: Theme Announced

A fake jam where you make pretend games

Faculty member awarded for outstanding performance

Congratulations, Ian Milligan!

IMMERSe Researcher Tries Oculus Rift with Eye Tracker

Rewriting the story of women in gaming: Can Frodo be a woman?

NEW FPS Essay: Identification or Desire?

CHI PLAY 2014 Call for Papers

About the Conference

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

"You Are Not a Banana" Now Available on Desura

EGGNOGG visits PLAY

Makers of EGGNOGG visit the PLAY event at UW

Brian Cullen launches "You are not a Banana"

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