Weekly 5 2/1/13
Hello everyone, and welcome to another Weekly 5! Here’s five links to stories and stuff that we think is pretty interesting. 1. Taking The “E” Out Of E-sports The folks over at Venture Beat have a cool story about the …
Author: Abe Stein
Abe Stein is a Research Affiliate at the MIT Game Lab and recently completed his SM in the Program in Comparative Media Studies at MIT, writing about sports videogames. He has authored a number of articles about sports and sports media and is co-editor of the book Sports Videogames. He currently works as an Associate Director of Communications at Wheaton College, in Norton, MA and as a researcher with the eSports company Azubu, and have studied and written about sports media.
Weekly 5 1/25/13
Hello again everyone, and welcome to another Weekly 5, our top five links to interesting stuff around the interwebnets. 1. Objectify Dudes for Good Leigh Alexander and Ben Abraham have collaborated to start a new holiday on February 1st — Objectify …
Putting Pen to Paper (Part 1)
This post is a continuation of Richard Gould’s reflections on his work as a sound designer for The Last Symphony. So with a musical direction laid out and implementation planned, the writing began. My process began with an initial sketch …
Game Lab Weekly 5: 1/11/13
Welcome to another Weekly 5, the first of the new year! 1. Kotaku on Todd’s LoL Letter A little while ago our very own Tod Harper wrote an excellent open letter to Riot Games about the sexuality of one of the …
Interview with Ludochip
On Monday the IGF announced the finalists for the main competition to be held at GDC in San Francisco. What some of you may not know is that there is an IGF competition that coincides with GDC China as well! It …
The Pick Up (Part 2)
This is part 2 of Richard Gould’s blog post about working on The Last Symphony. Read part one here. Interactive Audio Examples The following audio examples were indented as demos of interactive music mechanics to be used in-house and are …
Game Lab Weekly 5: 12/21/12
Here’s another Weekly 5 for you to check out! 1. Zork Creators Interview Here’s an interview from Wired with the creators of Zork, Infocom co-founders Dave Leibling and Marc Blank. Wonderfully, the interview is presented as a text adventure! 2. Interview with Far Cry 3 writer. …
The Pick Up (Part 1)
This is the first in a multi-part series of posts written by one of our Sound Designers from last summer, Richard Gould. My name is Richard Gould. I’m a Composer, Sound Designer and Voice Actor from the United Kingdom. In the …
Game Lab Weekly 5: 12/14/12
Hello Everyone, Today we’re posting the first in our Weekly 5 series. What were going to do is select five interesting links from around the internet to share with you, our friends. We’re hand-selecting these links based on how they relate …