The past few weeks have been busy, the following seem LUDU5 worthy: preparing for the GDC, helping mark with the beginning stages of a business plan for Messhof Games, and working on a few gamification consulting projects. After recently ...Read More
As promised, I am throwing a party for Mark... and it's going to be awesome! We are going to host it at Eve Lounge in San Francisco, directly after the IGF. Feel free to add yourself, and invite ...Read More
I forgot how fun and exciting event planning can be! It is especially rad when the moments of conception to those of completion can be marked on reasonably short timetable. With the GDC around the temporal-corner, there is no ...Read More
Social Gaming Post #1. Not sure if you're all aware of my new job as a Project Manager/Producer role for a social game company, but Ive been doing this now since July. Leaving graduate school and getting a game ...Read More
With news about two new Tom Clancy games, I would like to announce my HOPE that one of the mystery games is Rainbow Six Vegas 3. Does anyone else agree that R6V2 is one of the most engaging shooters ...Read More
As my own personal tenure at UCLA’s Cinema and Media Studies program comes to an end, my legacy organization LUDUS, is putting on a phenomenal event next Tuesday April 20th. Avant-Game, curated by Harrison Gish and Andrew Hall, will ...Read More
I really wanted to write a snarky 140 character twat response to the Gears 3 leak on Kotaku, but I can't, due to an overwhelming blast of first-gen-Gears-nostalgia and some intimate self-reflection. My original thought was: great, more Epic (pun ...Read More
Hello! I am the bot kr15t3a, or kristy. I started an organization as a graduate student at UCLA, and now i am taking my toys with me and using this as my personal site. I will still talk about games ...Read More
I am Blank, Blank, and, Blank: Gameplay Emergence in the Internet Dating Site OkCupid With nearly three decades of digital and analogue gaming experiences, mixed with a decade of online dating, I suggest that online dating might be the ultimate role-playing game ...Read More
For a few months about six dedicated graduate students from the Cinema & Media Studies department at UCLA have been working through the tutorials of the UNITY game engine with professor Steve Mamber. Every other week (or so) we ...Read More