Bosnobo: Primate Change - Artificial Intelligence Research

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:06:19 GMT

In Bosnobo: Primate Change, your bosnobos are thinking agents capable of learning from each other. Learning can be a random process, or forced by assigning a bosnobo as a teacher. By controlling the learning of your bosnobos and the priority in which they perform behaviors, all sorts of interesting outcomes could emerge, allowing for a wide variety of player strategies.

Play the game at http://gambit.mit.edu/bosnobo

Video by Steven Schirra

Interviews: Rizky Medzeva (Product Owner, Researcher), Andrew Grant (Staff Liaison, GAMBIT Technical Director)

Bosnobo: Primate Change was one of 7 games made at the MIT Game Lab during the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab Summer 2012 program. These games were made for researchers over the course of 9 weeks by student interns.

Movers & Shakers - Subversive Multiplayer Research

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:06:19 GMT

Movers & Shakers is a two-player tablet serious game created as a research tool to explore how players communicate based on conflicting perspectives within the game. The aim of Movers & Shakers is to create a meaningful conflict between its players and to facilitate a controversy beyond the screens.

Movers & Shakers is used as a research tool to explore how a social component influences experiences in serious games. In addition subversive game design elements are implemented in the game to foster the players’ thinking process and to get them out of unquestioned routines. In the game the players are challenged to give up their prior egoistic goals to reach their common goal – to save the world. In a nutshell, the game shifts from a competitive to a collaborational gameplay – once the players start communicating.

Download the game for Android Tablets at http://gambit.mit.edu/moversandshakers

Video by Steven Schirra

Interviews: Konstantin Mitgutsch (Product Owner, Researcher), Akash Thakkar (Audio Designer)

Movers & Shakers was one of 7 games made at the MIT Game Lab during the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab Summer 2012 program. These games were made for researchers over the course of 9 weeks by student interns.

Phantomation - Animation UI Research

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:06:19 GMT

Phantomation sets out to teach players how to use animation tools in the animation program Play Sketch. Play Sketch is an animation tool that allows the user to create quick, simple animations. It also introduces a new animation feature called real time, which allows the user to record animations demonstratively without having to manually set keyframes. Throughout the sixteen levels of the game, you will learn different animation techniques such as key framing and real time animation in order to possess objects. In the main levels,it is entirely up to the player whether they animate with key frames or real time animation techniques based on their preferences. The research from this game will answer if these new animation techniques make animation more accessible and easier to learn.

Play the game at http://gambit.mit.edu/phantomation

Video by Steven Schirra

Interviews: Abe Stein (Staff Liaison, GAMBIT Audio Director), Lex Johnson (Lead QA)

Phantomation was one of 7 games made at the MIT Game Lab during the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab Summer 2012 program. These games were made for researchers over the course of 9 weeks by student interns.

The Last Symphony - Game Design Research

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:06:19 GMT

The Last Symphony was created to showcase design strategies based on indexical storytelling. Hidden object games often include objects that are out of place or anachronistic in their scenes, or ask players to find objects that are largely unrelated to the storyline or the goal of the player. Collection of objects in The Last Symphony is not only directly tied to the player's goal, but also reveals the story through that process.

Play the game at http://gambit.mit.edu/thelastsymphony

Video by Steven Schirra

Interviews: Clara Fernández-Vara (Product Owner, Researcher), Richard Gould (Composter & Sound Designer)

The Last Symphony was one of 7 games made at the MIT Game Lab during the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab Summer 2012 program. These games were made for researchers over the course of 9 weeks by student interns.

2012 MIT Game Lab Symposium Part One: Introduction to the MIT Game Lab Past and Future

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:05:29 GMT

Part One: The 2012 MIT Game Lab Symposium: "Games In Everyday Life and Why That Matters To You"

An annual symposium to discuss the role of games throughout our lives today and the potential for collaboration and development with games research at the MIT Game Lab.A lecture about the past, present, and future of the MIT Game Lab.

Part One is the introduction of the symposium featuring a discussion between Henry Jenkins, the USC Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. William Uricchio the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and MIT Game Lab Creative Director Philip Tan. Video Produced by Generoso Fierro, Edited by Garrett Beazley. MIT Game Lab

2012 MIT Game Lab Symposium Part Five: Panel-Meaningful R&D Partners

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:05:28 GMT

Part Five: The 2012 MIT Game Lab Symposium: "Games In Everyday Life and Why That Matters To You"

An annual symposium to discuss the role of games throughout our lives today and the potential for collaboration and development with games research at the MIT Game Lab . Part Five is a panel entitled "Meaningful R&D Partners", a conversation about the potential for collaboration between games research and various industries.

The panel features moderator Philip Tan, the Creative Director of the MIT Game Lab. Panelists; Eitan Glinert, the founder and Creative Director of Fire Hose Games. He is also an alumni of the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab and the Education Arcade. His research interest is in games accessibility. Eric Klopfer, the Director of the MIT Teacher Education Program and the Scheller Career Development Professor of Science Education and Educational Technology at MIT. And Jenna Young, who spent most of her career in advertising, and is now at Weber Shandwick, one of the world’s leading PR firms.