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Exploring the Potential of Play at MIT!
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Joined March 2009
MIT's Independent Activities Period is a great time to try out new things. @MITstudents and others are welcome to join us for a 3-day workshop on all things Train Games, Jan 23-25, 11am-5pm each day. Registration is required, spaces are limited.
calendar.mit.edu
Join Mikael Jakobsson and Rik Eberhardt from the MIT Game Lab, together with train game industry insider Jason Begy for this three-session, non-credit playsploration of train-related board games....
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New Best of 2023 list includes @criticalplay & @hopfka's "Playing Oppression" and "Earlier" (published by @SemiotextePress). Thank you!
The Best Books of 2023 ➡️ https://t.co/5QCmb989kz It won’t surprise PopMatters readers that many of our best books of 2023 are excavations of our increasingly clamorous culture. It wasn’t a year for escapism. #BestOf2023
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We were excited to be featured in MIT News yesterday! "Serious play at the MIT Game Lab" -
news.mit.edu
The MIT Game Lab helps students think critically about the games they’ve often been playing for years, and prepares them to engage in thoughtful design practices themselves.
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Exciting event for those thinking about games, play, and theme parks!
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Thanks all for coming out last night! Ya'll brought some exciting games & it was amazing seeing @SnoozyKazoo's Turnip Boy Robs a Bank on the huge screen! We can't wait to be back in the spring, huge thank you to our hosts @mitopenspace + @MITGameLab and sponsor @skymapgames 💖
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We've rolled back the PC version of "A Slower Speed of Light" that you can download from our website. It only supports keyboard/mouse but it's more stable on Windows. Mac and Linux downloads stay on the 2020 version, with controller support. https://t.co/GENhZjS8ge
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Demo night at @bostonindies in the @mitopenspace - test some games and get some pizza tonight !
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Getting ready for a day-long workshop at @risd - “Playing Counter-Colonialism”. Looking forward to the prototyping and play session this afternoon! https://t.co/g6FLuUKgZT
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Hosting @bostonindies again at @mitopenspace (1st time in-person since Feb 2020). Happy to have them here! They’ll be back next month with a Demo Night.
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Anyone at #PAXeast - come play Promesa, a family board game designed at MIT Game Lab by the Popcicleta collective about Puerto Rico and the debt imposed by the US government, at the Unpub booth today from 2:30-6pm! https://t.co/Eli20zsd5P
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Register for a webinar introducing the new #MITxPRO Professional Certificate in Game Design - webinar is Feb 13, 11am US-Eastern. https://t.co/D56nccdflC
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Happy new year and new book! You can preorder our new book (w/ @hopfka) Playing Oppression now!!
amazon.com
Board games conjure up images of innocuously enriching entertainment: family game nights, childhood pastimes, cooperative board games centered around resource management and strategic play. Yet in...
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Take a forward-thinking, inclusive approach to #gamedesign. Learn from MIT expert instructors who actively practice game design and conduct research in @MITGameLab
https://t.co/5sfWr4WxpX
@MITxPRO #gamedevelopment
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GameLab researcher Dr. Mikael Jakobsson (@hopfka) presented some of his work on boardgames at this terrific event that brought scholars from across the Institute together (organized by Kat Cizek & @opendoclab):
news.mit.edu
The inaugural WORLDING workshops at MIT matched world-class climate story teams with relevant labs and researchers across MIT.
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Special event, Nov. 30! @LupeFiasco presents “Rap Theory & Practice: an Introduction” (in-person @MIT and streamed) https://t.co/1zebxStlgr. It'll be "an exploration into the underlying fundamental functions, structures, and principles of rap." @MIT_SHASS @LITatMIT @ArtsatMIT
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Join CMS/W: Faculty openings for Native American Studies and Chinese Language and Culture
cmsw.mit.edu
Application deadline: November 1, 2022.
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