MIT Game Lab Research Scientist Mikael Jakobsson talks with us about Co-Op Game Design. Designing for collaborative co-located gaming experiences offers many interesting possibilities but also challenges. What are the different ways of playing collaboratively and how can we think …
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Ms. Pac-Man was released in early 1982, so she turned thirty last year. Steve Golson, one of the original developers of Ms. Pac-Man at General Computer, will recount little-known stories about the creation of the game. How and why did …
Nick Montfort, Director of MIT Trope Tank, will lecture on what happens when games originally designed for the arcade are ported to home consoles. This follows on his work in platform studies, which looks at the base hardware and software …
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MIT Game Lab researcher Todd Harper talks about the performative aspects of the arcade. How is playing games in public different than on home computers and consoles? What were the cultural aspects of the arcade and how did this affect …
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