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Guest Lecture: Supporting and Enhancing Learning in, through, and around Complex Gameplay

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Monday, March 11 at 4pm in PTAB 109 Abstract: Complex games have demonstrated real-world benefits that illustrate their value as innovative and engaging tools for learning, either by leveraging entertainment games in educational contexts or by developing novel gaming environments for the purpose of teaching. However, complex games are also notoriously difficult, which limits their […]

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February 29, 2024

Guest Lecture: Building Responsive NPCs in the Age of GPT with Emily Short

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Utah Games Speaker Series & the Department of English present: When: November 16 Talk details: 5pm to 6pm in CSC 205 (Crocker Science Center) Reception: 6pm to 7pm in Bldg 72 Downstairs Game designers and players alike often aspire to non-player characters who respond to the player in dramatic and emotionally consistent ways — but […]

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October 24, 2023

Guest Lecture: Bridging Realities: Crafting Careers in Gaming, 3D Printing, and Education

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October 19, 5pm to 6pm Lecture Space of Building 72, 1st Floor Talk Description: With a wealth of experience spanning over 15 years, Yinka provides unique insights into his role as an acclaimed Character Director at Electronic Arts, lending his creative genius to the iconic Madden NFL series. Follow along as he talks about he […]

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October 4, 2023

“Play” as in “Instrument”: Creativity Support Tools and Game Design

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Time: March 13th, 2023 @ 4pm MT Location: PTAB 109 Summary: Creativity is well-known to be difficult. Issues such as writer’s block, the terror of the blank page, and dissatisfaction with the quality of one’s creative output can be enough to frustrate novice and expert creators alike. Research in both human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence […]

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March 13, 2023

Kessler Inducted into HEVGA Fellows

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Bob Kessler, Ph.D., EAE’s co-founder and founding director, will be posthumously inducted as a HEVGA Fellow during a ceremony to be held at the Game Developers’ Conference in San Francisco, CA, the week of March 20th, 2023.   Kessler was a towering figure in the history of EAE, serving to co-found the program in 2008 […]

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March 3, 2023

Can a Computer Dry Your Tears? Understanding How Players Use Video Games to Manage Difficult Emotions

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Time: March 2nd, 2023 @ 4-5pm MT Location: PTAB 109 Summary:According to the Entertainment Software Association, 89% of players claim that video games provide them with relief from stress. However, the relationship between stress and gameplay is often misunderstood, with games often thought of merely as idle distractions from people’s problems. This talk will challenge […]

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February 28, 2023

Divide and Conquer: Game Engines and the Division of Labor

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December 1st, 5-6pm Bldg 72, Lecture Space 103 This talk offers both a design and labor history of the first graphical game engine, Sierra On-Line’s Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI), which became the backbone of Sierra’s game development process beginning in the early-to-mid 1980s. Through detailed analysis of Sierra’s games , as well as bureaucratic and […]

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October 28, 2022