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Game Developers eXchange 2008 focuses on alternative and independent gaming Keynote speaker Eric Zimmerman to share his “independent game developer’s survival guide” ATLANTA – The Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta will host thefourth annual Game Developers eXchange April 10-11, 1600 Peachtree St.This year’s conference will spotlight alternative gaming and emergingmodes of design, production and [...]

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Playology/The EGL’s Weekly Game Salon
Monday March 3, 4:30pm
Experimental Game Lab/Skiles 354 (Third Floor)

A Guided Tour of Second Life
Bring your laptop and show us your favorite places in Second Life. 
If you’re a noob, come see what SLers think is cool!

With your host, Artemesia Sandgrain

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Keynote speaker Eric Zimmerman to share his “independent game developer’s survival guide”
ATLANTA – The Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta will host the fourth annual Game Developers eXchange April 10-11, 1600 Peachtree St. This year’s conference will spotlight alternative gaming and emerging modes of design, production and distribution.
Matthew Maloney, animation professor and academic director of [...]

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http://www.halleinstitute.emory.edu/invitations/VirtualWorlds/VirtualWorlds.htm
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(San Francisco, CA)— ITVS Interactive (Independent Television Service) and PBS’s Emmy® Award–winning weekly series Independent Lens today published FATWORLD, an online video game created by Atlanta-based independent game studio Persuasive Games, about the politics of nutrition. FATWORLD explores the relationships between obesity, nutrition and socioeconomics in the United States.
In the last two decades, obesity has [...]

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The Experimental Game Lab, and 
The Digital Media Program in the School of Literature, Communication & Culture Presents

Mary Flanagan, Director, Tiltfactor, Hunter College, New York
January 23, 6:00pm, Skiles 002 on the Georgia Tch Campus

Flanagan was a visiting artist at LCC in 2007 and will return to present an update on her “Values @ Play” Initiative.

Abstract: “designing [...]

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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.
Posted by Celia Pearce on Wednesday, December 12, 2007

During the upcoming holiday season, consumers will spend billions of dollars on video games. While their commercial success is [...]

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Expression Studio software donation worth more than $2.4 million
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Microsoft has selected the Savannah College of Art and Design as the first art and design college in the nation to receive Expression Studio software, a donation valued at $2.4 million that will put Microsoft’s latest cutting-edge designer and developer tools into the hands [...]

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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007, 4:00-7:00pm

Come interact with exciting new projects from studentsand faculty at the Georgia Tech Digital Media program, including interactive television, experimental games, tangible and mobile media, augmented reality, and more.  

For details visit: http://dm.lcc.gatech.edu/demoday/
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Georgia Tech librarian Brian Matthews has teamed up with GT computer science professor Blaire MacIntyre to develop a space in the Second Life virtual world from which students could “check out” land parcels in order “to hang out, explore, and learn the basics of the software.”
“Our [rationale] is that if there is an interest, let’s [...]

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