This year’s themed design challenge, asks us to think about how interactive entertainment can help us make sense of all the small and big things in our lives. The class will be asked to work on three interventions: a board game, an embodied experience for one-time use, and a mobile experience for multiple uses. Each intervention will bring together a different set of experts, consultants, and resources.
Dr. Esthir Lemi visited the Creative Media & Behavioral Health Center between March 26 and April 1. Together with Dr. Vangelis Lympouridis and CM&BHC lab director Marientina Gotsis, we created the piece ‘Watergait’, an interactive embodied sound project. Dr. Lemi’s report is posted here.
We are proud to announce that our alumna and Visiting Scholar Yasaman Hashemian is a 2014 recipient of the Vilcek Foundation prize for Creative Promise in design.
Erin Reynold’s thesis game Nevermind was featured on Gamasutra (Oct 29, 2013). Erin and her team have gone around the US and the world virtually with press and awards this year. We hope this new Kickstarter campaign for horror video games will get funded so that Nevermind can be shown to audiences in film festivals and other film channel distribution formats.
Team Skyfarer had a blast setting up for SIGGRAPH 2013 in Anaheim this week. With over 150 people visiting the booth to be exercised, we feel energized to continue development of the game. USC News covered USC’s presence at SIGGRAPH, as did Venture Beat and iMedia Connection.