Will Wright's SPORE released
DM Alumni Chaim Gingold and Kate Compton were part of the development team. Chaim led the team that designed the Creature Editor and Kate was one of the principle artists making planets. Will Wright is a recipient of Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen Award for Progress and Service and has twice been the keynote speaker at the Living Game Worlds Symposium, offering us one of the first looks at SPORE when it was in development.
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Digital Media Professor Ali Mazalek and PhD candidate Ozge Samanci featured in the Atlanta Journal
Digital Media Professor Ali Mazalek and PhD candidate Ozge Samanci featured in the Atlanta Journal Constitution for Embodied Comics:
Georgia Tech team develops interactive comics
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Prof. Ian Bogost quoted on National Public Radio in the program All Things Considered.
LCC's Prof. Ian Bogost was quoted in NPR's program All Things Considered in the piece titled "Video Game Makers Favor Diversion over Depth".
Listen to the piece here-
Video Game Makers Favor Diversion over Depth
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LCC Professor Ian Bogost on making news games; an interview by Reportr.net
Prof. Ian Bogost speaking on news games, and the challenges of using video games to tell the news at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin.
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Ian Bogost's FATWORLD, featured today on the PBS homepage as part of Independent Lens' web exclusive content.
Ian Bogost's FATWORLD, a downloadable video game about eating, obesity, and the politics of nutrition, reconstructs a playful, small-scale society in which players own and operate a restaurant, purchase groceries, create and share recipes, and make nutritional decisions over the life of a character.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/interactive.html
http://www.pbs.org/
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CNN.com Reports on Digital Media's Winter 2007 Demo Day
CNN.com provided coverage of the Digital Media program's Winter 2007 Demo Day. The segment can be watched online here on CNN
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Game Daily featured article by Dr. Celia Pearce "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: Video Game Makers Should Take a Lesson from Nintendo and Market to Women"
Game Daily - December 13, 2007
Dr. Celia Pearce of GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY believes the video game industry has yet to really take advantage of the huge opportunity female gamers present ... During the upcoming holiday season, consumers will spend billions of dollars on video games. While their commercial success is unquestionable, it's amazing to think that video games have become so successful while almost willfully excluding a sizable chunk of the population – women.
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Bolter Honored at GVU 15th Anniversary Celebration and Symposium
The Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center (GVU) at Georgia Tech recently honored Professor Jay Bolter for his significant contribution to graphics and visualization research, particularly in the area of Augmented Reality design.
GVU aims to elevate the disciplines of graphics and visualization, by serving as a campus-wide resource to foster creativity and support related academic programs.
Details about the award and information about Professor Bolter's research activities can be found on the Center's site, located at
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Georgia Tech's Digital Media Program Well Represented at Digital Arts and Culture in Perth Australia
Georgia Tech's Digital Media Program had the most papers in the conference of any institution. Present in person were Professors Fox Harrell and Celia Pearce as well as Ph.D. student Jichen Zhu. Also represented in absentia were Professors Ken Knoespel (presented by collaborator Jichen Zhu) and Ian Bogost (presented by Fox Harrell).
A conference series that was established in 1998, the DAC was one of the first academic events to gather researchers, practitioners and artists working within the field of digital arts, cultures, aesthetics and design.
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Ian Bogost on the 'Colbert Report' on Comedy Central
LCC professor discusses video games with Steven Colbert at Report
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Pearce Comments on NPR's "Morning Edition"
You can listen to Professor Celia Pearce discuss avatars at Morning Edition
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