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In Medias Res, Spring 2005
William Uricchio Henry Jenkins There’s an old saying: two heads are better than one. We are putting that saying to the test this term. For the first time in two years, both William Uricchio and Henry...
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CMS and the Singapore-MIT International Games Lab profiled about Game Design...
CMS Director Henry Jenkins and Singapore-MIT International Game Lab Executive Director Philip Tan recently talked to Wired’s Chris Kohler about the Game Lab and the games industry. Jenkins on...
View ArticlePodcast: Richard Rouse, “Cinematic Games”
Many people talk about “cinematic” games, but what does this really mean? Over their century of existence, films have been using a range of techniques to create specific emotional responses in their...
View ArticleVideo: Thesis Presentations 2010. Jason Begy: “Interpreting Abstract Games:...
Jason Begy’s work in games focuses on abstraction and emergent game play. Many thanks to Philip Tan for recording this presentation. You can see all of the CMS 2010 graduate student thesis...
View ArticleInterpreting Abstract Games: The Metaphorical Potential of Formal Game Elements
As cultural artifacts, abstract games offer unique challenges to critical interpretation. This is largely due to the fact that such games lack a fictional element: there are no characters, no settings,...
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