Frank Lantz has taught game design for over twenty years at New York University, where he helped create the NYU Game Center and served as the founding Chair of the Game Design department from its inception until 2021.
Read MoreThe effect of war games on society - and history - is becoming a major field of study in Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere. Matthew Caffrey, a civilian coordinator of wargaming for the U.S. Air Force, has been immersed in the study and analysis of war games for decades.
Read MoreThese students were participating in a play-test session of "LUX," an alternate reality historical fiction game designed by researchers in UCSC's Game User Interaction and Intelligence Lab directed by computational media professor and department chair Magy Seif El-Nasr and the Interaction Dynamics Lab.
Read MoreSid Meier is famous for creating the video game Civilization. Meier released Civilization thirty years ago this month, after developing it with Bruce Shelley, a veteran board-game designer.
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