Gaming Research at the University - Means and Ends

Gaming Research: Strategies and Resources

a Taxonomy of Means and Ends

Kevin HamiltonAssociate Professor and Program Chair

New Media / School of Art and Design (FAA)

Gaming Research: Strategies and Resources

as an Engineering Problem growing

Strategy $$$

as non-Engineering Disciplinary Work popular but shrinking

as Trespass or Hack meager, ephemeral

as Parasite meager, sustainable

Gaming Research as an Engineering Problem

How to efficiently deliver and monetize interfaces to increasingly immersive virtual

spaces


Console Gaming


Virtual Worlds / MMOG


Education and Training


Education and Training


Pervasive Games

Gaming Research as Disciplinary Work

Interpretation and critique of games and their impact

Pursuit of disciplinary work within games

Gaming Research as Disciplinary Work (Fine Art)

Cory Arcangel

Photoshop CS: 110 by 72 inches, 300 DPI, RGB, square pixels, default gradient "Spectrum", mousedown y=1098 x=1749.9, mouse up y=0 x=4160 (2008)


Brody Condon

after Grunewald


Brody Condon

Twentyfive fold Manifestation


Jon Haddock

Isometric Screenshots


Scalable City

Gaming Research as Trespass or Hack

Non-monetize-able misuse

Critical tourism

Protest


Non-monetizeable Misuse

Radical Software Group


Critical Tourism


Protest

SimCopter Hack (@rtmark)


Protest


Protest

Gaming Research as Parasite

Depends on industry structures for supportand distribution, but income merely covers the

cost of development.

Game as toy, catalyst to marginal ends.


Elektroplankton


Flow


WTF


Bloom


Sodaconstructor