A Brief History of Newsgames: Combining News + Videogames
The [newsgames project](http://jag.lcc.gatech.edu/blog/), which this year won a [News Challenge...
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Why TechCrunch’s Paul Carr Is Wrong About Newsgames
Over the weekend, TechCruch’s confessed “old media snob” Paul Carr posted an interesting response to my call for more newsgames. In the post, Mr. Carr was quite complimentary to my overall reasoning,...
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Newsgames Can Raise the Bar for News, Not Dumb It Down
Earlier this month a group of journalists, game designers, and academics gathered at the University of Minnesota for a workshop on newsgames. I was there, as was fellow Knight News Challenge winner and...
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Three 3D Newsgames Produced Within a Week of Bin Laden Raid
In the course of researching newsgames over the past few years, we’ve been able to roughly categorize them into certain types, which we’ve previously written about on Idea Lab. These categories were...
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Why Newsgame Development Should Look to Paper Prototyping
Although the practice might not be widely known outside game design circles, “paper prototyping” is a common pedagogical methodology in game design education. The idea behind a paper prototype is that...
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Cartoonist Prototype Tackles the Most Visible News
At a recent demo day hosted by a Georgia Tech research center, our studio showed a working prototype of the Cartoonist engine for the first time. The whiz kids at UCSC’s Expressive Intelligence Studio...
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When a Game Only Looks Like a Game
In our research on newsgames, we proselytize the power of videogames to model events in the world small and big, simple and complex. But there is, of course, a discrepancy between the values we espouse...
View ArticleWhat ‘The Republia Times’ Game Can Teach Us About Propaganda
“The Republia Times” generated a significant amount of buzz when it was released a few weeks ago, even though it was developed by Lucas Pope simply as a warmup for a 48-hour game competition. It’s a...
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Virtual Reality: The Future of Narrative Journalism?
This was the first time I had stepped foot in a refugee camp. I was in Zaatari, waiting for Sidra, a 12-year-old girl who has spent the last 18 months in Jordan, to lead me around the settlement. We...
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HoloLens Brings 3D Media Into the Physical World
Those who follow me know that over the last year, there’s one technology that has been my obsession: Virtual Reality (VR), specifically the Oculus Rift. I was first introduced to the headset that...
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360 Video vs. Regular Video: A Case Study
The following piece is a guest post by Sarah Hill, the CEO and Chief Storyteller for StoryUP VR, a global VR native media company based in Missouri. Guest posts do not necessarily reflect the opinions...
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The Power of Empathy, Personal Narrative and More Lessons from the Story...
They stood on a bright stage in a darkened room and delivered pithy presentations right out of the TED Talks playbook. An eclectic collection of speakers representing documentary film, journalism,...
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Storytelling in Gaming: New Opportunities to Connect With Audiences
You are an 18-year-old Iranian photojournalist covering the revolution in your home country. You’ve been captured and are being and held, bound, in Evin Prison in Tehran. Your menacing captor, wielding...
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How Al Jazeera Built Its #Hacked Game To Spotlight The Syrian Cyber War
This post was originally published by the International Journalists’ Network. Image of Juliana Ruhfus courtesy of Al Jazeera. “I hope your family’s well.” This is the safe phrase Ziad, a Syrian...
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Yes, Virtual Reality and 360 Video Are Relevant. Here’s Why.
This guest post comes from WVU Reed College of Media Lecturer, and Multimedia Specialist, David Smith and is cross posted with permission. By David Smith/WVU Reed College of Media Why is VR relevant?...
View ArticleDigitalEd: Getting Started With Virtual Reality
Title: Getting Started With Virtual Reality Instructor: Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. and the Mobile Virtual Reality Lab, Florida International University This session focuses on introducing new users to...
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Arkadium Launches InHabit Reader Engagement Tool
In the quest to solve the problem of low audience engagement, one company has developed what it believes is the solution to keeping readers on the page longer. Arkadium, known for creating interactive...
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