Bio:
Matthew Weise is split right down the middle into equal parts gamer and cinephile, having
attended film school before seguing into game studies and then game development. Matt is
the lead game designer for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab and a full-time gamer, which
means he not only plays games on a variety of systems but he also completes (most of) them.
When he's not playing games or getting obscure DVDs off eBay he's babbling on at length
about games and movies to anyone who will listen. With a scholarly (aka nerdy) background
in both film and games, his primary research interest lies in their transmedia
relationship: in how they each can represent meaningful fictional universes differently.
Matt's non-gaming, non-movie related interests are Soviet History and bread.

Matthew did his undergrad at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, where he studied
film production before going rogue to design his own degree. He graduated in 2001 with a
degree in Digital Arts, which included videogames (this was before Game Studies was a
field). He continued his videogame research at MIT's Comparative Media Studies program
where he examined how videogame theory and criticism differs between communities. As a CMS
grad student he also worked at The Education Arcade, most notably collaborating
onRevolution, a small-scale simulation of colonial America. After leaving MIT in 2004 Matt
worked in mobile game development for a few years, occassionally doing some consultancy
work, before returning to CMS and MIT in 2007 to work at the newly created Singapore-MIT
GAMBIT Game Lab.