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Author: jesse

  • Junkyard Sports with a virtual Bernie

    Junkyard Sports with a virtual Bernie

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    Let’s discover fun by repurposing, reusing & upcycling old things and creating new games! During this play session, we (re) designed physical games, changed the goals & the rules of existing ones, and playfully explored new possibilities on adapting sports activities to almost any environment and for everyone. Bernie de Koven, one of the founders…

  • New Games Outside #2 – Playing for Bernie

    New Games Outside #2 – Playing for Bernie

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    Let’s go play in the park again! Last September, we played a bunch of fun games invented in the 1960s and 70s as part of the New Games movement. Then we made up our own. We’ve just learned that one of the founders of this movement, Bernie de Koven, has stage 4 cancer. But this…

  • Can Open Source Open Minds? at FOSDEM 2017

    Can Open Source Open Minds? at FOSDEM 2017

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    In the IncLudo project, we are making open source games to promote diversity in the workplace. After a year of building and testing game prototypes, we want to share what we’ve learned about bias, empathy, icebreakers, taboos, and board games while pursuing this important but challenging goal. The speaker is Jesse Himmelstein, coordinator of the…

  • New Games Outside – quick intro

    New Games Outside – quick intro

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    Recorded in Parc de la Villette in Paris, September 5, 2016. Thanks to Mourdjen Bari for filming, to Benjamin Misiak for carrying heavy boxes, and to everyone who came out for making this a great event despite the rain! For more info on what New Games has become, check out Bernie de Koven’s site http://www.deepfun.com/

  • IncLudo Introduction to the Diversity Jam

    IncLudo Introduction to the Diversity Jam

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    Jesse Himmelstein (CRI Game Lab) introduces the EU-India project IncLudo project and the current state of games around diversity and inclusion.

  • RedMetrics presentation as FOSDEM

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  • RedWire: a novel way to create and re-mix games

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    I had forgotten to post this article from 2014. RedWire: a novel way to create and re-mix games

  • Biography of Eric Chahi (Another World / Heart of Darkness / From Dust)

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    Reposted from the Gamelier I have such strong memories of first playing “Another World”, aka. “Out of this World.” A friend lent me a floppy disk with it on it, and I loaded it up my parent’s PC without any idea of what it was. The lack of introduction only amplified the mystique of starting…

  • RedWire Game Jam

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    Reposted from the Gamelier Creating games from scratch is hard. What if we could “remix” existing games, just like we do for music? That was the aim of the RedWire game jam that took place in Paris over the weekend of July 25-27. The event was a collaboration between four organizations: the Center for Interdisciplinary…

  • Experience and Education by John Dewey

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    Originally posted at Gamelier. I’m not accustomed to reading philosophy, but really enjoyed reading Experience and Education, by John Dewey. It’s a slim book of not even 100 pages, but is beautifully written, exceptionally clear and intelligent. Experience and Education was written in 1938 as a followup to an earlier book, Democracy and Education, which he had…