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Naomi Clark (game Designer)
Naomi Clark is a Japanese American game designer, writer, and professor who currently serves as the departmental chair of NYU Game Center at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. During Clark's term as chair of the department, NYU Game Center has been ranked by The Princeton Review as the top school for game design. Her games often address LGBTQ themes. She designed Consentacle, a science fiction cooperative board game, which raised $154,609 on Kickstarter and won the IndieCade Impact Award. Clark co-wrote the book ''A Game Design Vocabulary'' with Anna Anthropy. Clark is a member of New York City's Game Development Industry Council. Career Clark began developing games for a living in 1999. As of 2018, she has worked on over thirty-five released games for various companies, including Lego. Clark became a full-time faculty member of NYU Game Center in 2015, after teaching courses at New York Film Academy, Parsons, and the School of Visual Arts. In addition to Consenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NYU Game Center
The New York University Tisch School of the Arts (commonly referred to as Tisch) is the performing, cinematic, and media arts school of New York University. Founded on August 17, 1965, as the School of the Arts at New York University, Tisch is a training ground for artists, scholars of the arts, and filmmakers. The school is divided into three Institutes: Performing Arts, Emerging Media, and Film & Television. Many undergraduate and graduate disciplines are available for students, including acting, dance, drama, performance studies, design for stage and film, musical theatre writing, photography, record producing, game design and development, and film and television studies. The school also offers an inter-disciplinary "collaborative arts" program, high school programs, continuing education in the arts for the general public, as well as the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, which teaches entrepreneurial strategies in the music recording industry. A dual MFA/MBA gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leigh Alexander (journalist)
Leigh Alexander (born ) is an American author, journalist, and video game writer. She is the former editor-at-large and news editor for '' Game Developer'' (formerly ''Gamasutra''), and former editor-in-chief for the revived ''Boing Boing'' website ''Offworld''. She has writing credits on the games '' Reigns: Her Majesty'' and '' Reigns: Game of Thrones''. Career Her writing has appeared in '' Variety'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Kotaku'', ''Polygon'', ''Vice'', '' Edge'', ''Rock Paper Shotgun'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Atlantic'' and ''Time''. She also produces a video series called "Lo-Fi Let's Play", in which she plays and comments on adventure games from the 1980s. Alexander has written two books about video games: ''Breathing Machine'', about growing up with gaming and the nascent Internet, and ''Clipping Through'', about life in the games industry as viewed through the lens of the Game Developers Conference (GDC). On February 14, 2015, Alexander released an illustrated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axios (website)
''Axios'' (styled ΛXIOS in the logo) is an American news website based in Arlington, Virginia. It was founded in 2016 and launched the following year by former ''Politico'' journalists Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz. The site's name is based on the (), meaning "worthy of". ''Axios'' articles are often brief to facilitate quick reading; most are shorter than 300 words and use bullet points. In addition to news articles, ''Axios'' produces daily and weekly industry-specific newsletters (including Allen's ''Axios AM'', a successor to his newsletter '' Politico Playbook'' for ''Politico''), and two daily podcasts. On September 1, 2022, Cox Enterprises completed its acquisition of ''Axios''. History VandeHei said he wanted ''Axios'' to be a "mix between ''The Economist'' and Twitter". The company initially covered a mix of business, politics, technology, health care, and media. VandeHei said ''Axios'' would focus on the "collision between tech and areas such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucian Kahn
Lucian Kahn is an American role-playing game writer/designer and musician based in Brooklyn. His work focuses on LGBT, Jewish, and subcultural themes, typically utilizing satire and farce. His games include '' Visigoths vs. Mall Goths,'' '' If I Were a Lich, Man'', and '' Dead Friend: A Game of Necromancy'', and his music includes Schmekel. Games Kahn wrote and designed the tabletop role-playing games ''Visigoths vs. Mall Goths'', ''Dead Friend: A Game of Necromancy'', and the boxed trilogy ''If I Were a Lich, Man''. All three games started out self-published as indie role-playing games, then were reprinted by Hit Point Press in 2023 after the Canadian publisher's kickstarter campaign for If I Were a Lich, Man raised $84,590 in two weeks. '' Visigoths vs. Mall Goths'' lets players play LGBTQ people in 1990s goth subculture with a focus on bisexual people, and uses both classic RPG battle mechanics and dating sim game mechanics about flirting at the mall. The art is by Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharang Biswas
Sharang Biswas is an Indian American designer/writer of tabletop role-playing games and interactive media, a writer of speculative fiction, an adjunct professor of game studies at NYU Game Center, and a freelance games journalist. His work focuses on LGBTQ and science fiction and fantasy themes. Biswas has won multiple awards for his game writing work as both a solo designer and a collaborator: one IndieCade award, four ENNIE Awards, and two Indie Game Developer Network awards. He was an Artist in Residence at the Museum of the Moving Image. Games and interactive media design Biswas designed ''Feast'', a game that takes place during a meal and uses eating as a game mechanic. ''Feast'' was featured in an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. ''Feast'' won the 2017 IndieCade "Dark Horse" award and the 2020 "Most Innovative" Indie Game Developer Network Award. Biswas has won four ENNIE Awards for game writing: the 2024 Silver for "Best RPG Related Produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live Action Role-playing Game
A live action role-playing game (LARP) is a form of role-playing game where the participants physically portray their character (arts), characters.(Tychsen et al. 2006:255) "LARPs can be viewed as forming a distinct category of RPG because of two unique features: (a) The players physically embody their characters, and (b) the game takes place in a physical frame. Embodiment means that the physical actions of the player are regarded as those of the character. LARP participants may dress in the costume of their character and carry appropriate physical props (e.g., an 18th century militia LARP participant may wear a military uniform and carry a musket). Whereas in a RPG played by a group sitting around a table, players describe the actions of their characters (e.g., "I run to stand beside my friend"); in an equivalent situation in a LARP, a player would physically run to the appropriate point within the game space." The players pursue goals within a fictional setting (narrative), s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honey & Hot Wax
''Honey & Hot Wax'' is an anthology of artistic tabletop and live action role-playing games on the theme of sexuality, published by Pelgrane Press in 2020. It includes games by nine designers, a foreword by the academic chair of NYU Game Center, and a chapter on consent. ''Honey & Hot Wax'' received two grants from a nonprofit organization for reducing sexual shame through art and education. The book was nominated for an IndieCade award and an Indie Game Developer Network award. Games The book is marked for adult audiences only, with "games of imagination and pretend for mature, consenting adults." The anthology is divided into two sections called "This World" and "Other Worlds." The games in "This World" take place in real-world settings. ''Pop!'' by Alex Roberts is about an online forum of balloon fetishists. ''The Echo of the Unsaid'' by Sharang Biswas is about sexual tension between heterosexual male college roommates. ''The Sleepover'' by Julia Bond Ellingboe and Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twine (software)
Twine is a free open-source tool created by Chris Klimas for making interactive fiction and hypertext fiction in the form of web pages. It is available on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Software Twine emphasizes the visual structure of hypertext, and does not require knowledge of a programming language as many other game development tools do. It is regarded as a tool which can be used by anyone interested in interactive fiction and experimental games. Twine 1 generated code using ''twee''. Its frontend was derived from TiddlyWiki, with a similar but incompatible data format. Twine 2 is a browser-based application written in HTML5 and Javascript, also available as a standalone desktop app; it also supports CSS. It is currently in version 2.10.0, as of November 2024. Rather than using a fixed scripting language, Twine supports the use of different "story formats". In Twine 1, these mostly affected how a story was displayed rather than how it was written, but Twine 2 story form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polygon (website)
''Polygon'' is an American entertainment website created by Vox Media covering video games, movies, television, and other popular culture. At its October 2012 launch as Vox Media's third property, ''Polygon'' sought to distinguish itself by focusing on the stories of the people behind video games and long-form magazine-style feature articles. The site was built over the course of ten months by eight co-founding editors which included the editors-in-chief of the gaming sites '' Joystiq'', '' Kotaku'' and '' The Escapist''. Vox Media produced a documentary series on the founding of the site. In May 2025, ''Polygon'' was sold to Valnet. History Vox Media (2012–2025) The gaming blog ''Polygon'' was launched on October 24, 2012, as Vox Media's third property. The site grew from technology blog ''The Verge'', which was launched a year earlier as an outgrowth of sports blog network ''SB Nation'' before Vox Media was formed. Vox Media's chief executive officer, Jim Bankoff, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netrunner
''Netrunner'' is an out-of-print collectible card game (CCG) designed by Richard Garfield, the creator of '' Magic: The Gathering''. It was published by Wizards of the Coast and introduced in April 1996. It was produced until 1999. The game took place in the setting for the ''Cyberpunk 2020'' role-playing game (RPG), but it also drew from the broader cyberpunk genre. In 2012, Fantasy Flight Games released '' Android: Netrunner'', a new card game based on ''Netrunner'', under license from Wizards of the Coast. Since 2019, the game has been run by the nonprofit games publisher Null Signal Games. Gameplay ''Netrunner'' depicts cyberspace combat between a global mega-corporation (the Corp) and a hacker (the Runner). The Corp aims to complete its secret agendas before the Runner can hack in and steal data. It isn't easy, though, as the Corp has strong defensive ''data forts'' protected by malevolent computer programs known as ''ICE'' (short for Intrusion Countermeasures Electron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queer
''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are non-heterosexual or non- cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against LGBTQ people in the late 19th century. From the late 1980s, queer activists began to reclaim the word as a neutral or positive self-description. In the 21st century, ''queer'' became increasingly used to describe a broad spectrum of non- heteronormative sexual or gender identities and politics. Academic disciplines such as queer theory and queer studies share a general opposition to binarism, normativity, and a perceived lack of intersectionality, some of them only tangentially connected to the LGBTQ movement. Queer arts, queer cultural groups, and queer political groups are examples of modern expressions of queer identities. Critics of the term include members of the LGBTQ community who associate it more with its colloquial, derogatory usage; those who wish to dissociate themselves from queer radicalism; and tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
