Games & Play Reading Group meets will now be held on Fridays 12:30-1:30pm every week.
Yummy vegetarian sandwiches from Pearson & Murphy’s provided.
This week’s Reading Group takes place on Thursday, 29 March 2012, at a new time-slot: 12.30-1.30. Rhys will be leading the discussion on the CHI paper “Practical, Appropriate, Empirically-Validated
On Wednesday (4-Apr-2012) Wouter from our lab will be giving a little talk about his learnings from writing a full paper with very little training in paper writing.
Feel free to bring your own sandwich, sushi roll or lunch salad. (Good) coffee + tea will be provided. Also feel free to bring in personal questions and challenges around paper writing that you’d like to discuss.
Danielle from the Exertion Games Lab has been awarded a grant from the Copyright Agency Career Fund to attend CHI in Austin, Texas in May and her Doctoral Thesis, Swing That Thing : moving to move. The poetics of embodied engagement, has been awarded the Monash University Vice-Chancellor’s Mollie Holman Medal for best doctoral thesis. Congratulations!
Today the ABC’s Catalyst TV crew visited the Exertion Games Lab to shoot video footage of Joggobot, the flying robot that is a social companion for joggers.
“Catalyst is a program that sees science as a dynamic force changing our world.” They were very engaged, and spent the entire day in the lab, shooting footage of how we developed the idea of Joggobot, people’s perceptions of the Joggobot on a running track (see picture) and tested it themselves in our gym.
Unfortunately Eberhard, the main creator behind Joggobot could not have been there, but we highlighted him many times!
The Exertion Games Lab now has an online photo album which we will be updating regularly. You can find photos from events, projects and fun times starting from day one.
Chad, Josh and Harry are exhibiting Bubble Popper at the Victorian Physical & Health Education Conference on 17 Feb 2012 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia.
Eberhard Graether has finished his 3-month internship with us at the XGL and will be heading back to Austria in a few days. In the short period he was here, he became an integral part of the ‘exertion gang’ and we will miss his witty and ever-critical attitude.
To commemorate his presence in this lab, we took this group photo last Friday, in poses not uncommon to the lab:
We wish Eberhard all the best and hope he will keep on developing exciting game concepts, exertion-based or otherwise!
Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller’s Jogging over a Distance appeared in the Interactions magazine‘s “Demo Hour” section. Click on the image to read.
Floyd gave a great overview of the Exertion Games Lab’s vision at Pause Fest in Melbourne Central last month. Chad and Josh also play and demo the lab’s games in the video. Pause Fest was a great experience for everyone in the lab and a great opportunity for the public to see and try the demos.
Our very own Josh Platt has recently been awarded first prize for the iPad app “eMod” that was made for the Future Proofing Schools competition. The app was made in Unity in just 11 days! Congratulations!
http://www.msdincubator.com/fps/competition/content/winners-future-proofing-schools-competition-0
Giselle Rosman has kindly posted up Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller’s speech from the IGDA (International Game Developers Association) Melbourne Exertion Games special on the IGDA Melbourne website. The recording was done by Joel from Mnemonic Audio, so big thanks to him!
Starting this Thursday, 17th November, the RMIT Games Graduate Show 2011 will feature the work of graduating students from Game Design, Digital Art and Games Graphics Programming. Held at the Exertion Games Lab the students will exhibit their year-long and single semester projects.Venue: Exertion Games LabRMIT City Campus
Building 9, Level 1, Room 27
Bowen St, Melbourne, VIC, 3000Open Dates: 17-20 November 2011, 10am-5pmLaunch Night: 17 November 2011, 7pm
On Wednesday, 9 Nov 2011, Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller from the Exertion Games Lab gave a talk at Melbourne Central as part of Pause Fest on The Future of Games, featuring several of the games coming out of the lab. Through public talks like these, we hope to engage the public into a more informed discussion about the benefits of computer games, increase appreciation of games, and inspire industry.
You can also find recordings of the talk at SoundCloud, and an interview as well.
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Photos taken by Chad Toprak
On Wednesday, 9 Nov 2011, the Exertion Games Lab joined Pause Fest, Melbourne’s first Digital Festival, exhibiting Bubble Popper and Hanging off a Bar in Melbourne Central, one of Melbourne’s biggest and finest shopping centres in the heart of the city. By exposing our exertion games to the public we hope to gather feedback while also promoting more beneficial uses of computer games to society. We hope we have inspired viewers, given them a different perspective, and also excite them about what the future in games will hold for them.
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Chad gave a great interview today about the lab and his work on Exertion Games on public transport in response to Get Active month, you can read all about it 