IFOG: Speaker Series (CMPS 280A)
The Inventing the Future Of Games: Speaker Series is Wednesdays from 11:00 - 12:00 pm in E2 180 (The Simularium). The course is open for undergraduates and graduates, please contact cgpm-info@soe.ucsc.edu for a permission code to enroll. Enrollment is NOT required for attendence, all are welcome to attend - community and students alike!
Visit design3's website for all our talks, as well as tons of other great game-related video resources.
Spring 2012
Upcoming Talks:
April 11, 2012: Nicole Lazzaro, XEODesign
April 18, 2012: Daniel Benmergui, Today I Die/Storyteller
April 25, 2012: Stone Librande, EA/Maxis
May 2, 2012: Chaim Gingold, UCSC Graduate Student/Spore
May 9, 2012: Shane Liesegang, Bethesda
May 16, 2012: Adam Cadre, I-0/Photopia
May 23, 2012: Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Microsoft
May 30, 2012: TBD
June 6, 2012: TBD
Past quarters -
Winter 2012
Outside of Series:
January 27, 2012: Mike Mika, Making Fun, LLC. - Global Game Jam Keynote
January 19, 2012: Rich Hilleman, EA - Game Telemetry and Crowd Sourcing New Game Services: How you take over the game business.
Fall 2011:
November 30, 2011: Borut Pfeifer, Haunted Temple Studios - Accessibility in AI Design
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View Borut's talk here.
November 23, 2011: Richard Lemarchand, Naughty Dog, Inc. - Beauty and Risk: Emotion, Indie Games and Uncharted
- Beauty and Risk: Inspiration from Richard Lemarchand blog post by Jane Pinckard.
- View Richard's talk here.
November 16, 2011: Clint Hocking, LucasArts - Dynamics: The State of the Art
November 9, 2011: Nic Duchenaut, PARC - For Fun and For Profit: Doing Social Science Research in Online Games
- Design Lessons from Social Science Research in WoW blog post by Jane Pinckard.
November 2, 2011: Ozlem Kalinli, Sony - Speech Interface in Games
October 26, 2011: Alex Neuse & Mike Roush, Gaijin Games - Storytelling Through Symbolism: BIT.TRIP and Beyond
October 19, 2011: Mirjam Eladhari, Gotland University - To Design for Results: Game Prototyping as a Research Method
October 12, 2011: John Peters, Team Krinoid - Transitioning from Games Academia to Indie Games: The Team Krinoid Story.
October 5, 2011: Arash Keshmirian & Serban Porumbescu, LIMBIC Software - Building App Store Hits: A Look at Nuts! and Zombie Gunship
Outside of Series:
December 5, 2011: Marc Christie, Rennes 1 University - Interactive Virtual Cinematography
November 7, 2011: Reid Swanson, UCSC - Say Anything: Learning to Tell Stories by Learning and Interacting
November 1, 2011: Mary Flanagan, Dartmouth College - Propositions from a Critical Play Perspective
October 6, 2011: Eskil Steenberg, LOVE - Things I learned from making LOVE.
October 4, 2011: Scott Jon Siegel, Popcap Games - The Beauty of Constraint
