16 May 2025
I am pleased to announce that the projects my graduate students created from the last two semesters are now available on the TUBBA Games Manufacturing Concern Itch page.
The games can be found here: https://tubba-games.itch.io/. Most of the games are available for Windows and are FREE to download. However, there is one board game project that includes a fabrication package so that players can build their own version at home.
Below are sample gameplay videos for each game:
20 February 2025
I’m very excited to announce that my new video game lab, the Game Philosophy and Design Lab (GamePaD Lab) is now open at Georgia Tech!
Our first official event was today. We hosted judges for the Peabody Awards, who used are space to review submissions for the Interactive Narrative Category of this year’s awards. Moving forward the space will focus on graduate student game-based research and game-centric public events.
Our collection currently consists of numerous retro consoles and video games, VR equipment, and board games. Come drop by and see us in the TSRB building at Georgia Tech or send us a message at gamepadlab[at]gatech[dot]edu.
9 June 2023
This year for the Canadian Game Studies Association Annual Conference I was able to work with my good friend and colleague, Scott DeJong. Scott does some really amazing work on disinformation while also designing board games (find his game, Lizards and Lies here: https://www.lizardsandlies.ca/). Naturally, as educational game designers, there are overlaps in our research and development activities. In particular, we have found that many educational games do not take full advantage of the unique affordances of board games and/or video games as a medium. As a result, we made a short video about our design experiences and how we deal with this (and similar) issues.
Discussing these ideas and later making the video with Scott was an amazing experience. At this point we consider the ideas to be in their early stages, but we hope to revisit this project soon and make a more polished version. Hopefully we will put something more together soon because these are ideas that I am interested in pursuing further.