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The IMGD Seminar

Interactive Media and Game Development

Fall 2007


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The Interactive Media and Game Development (IMGD) seminar is a weekly meeting on topics of interest to IMGD. Some weeks, we have an outside speaker from industry that will be talking on an IMGD topic. These sessions will be presentation-type events, and open to the general public. Other weeks, we have IMGD faculty lead informal discussions about IMGD syllabi, text books, class projects and more. These sessions may have presentations but will be less formal, conducive for discussions.

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Thursdays, 10am - 11am
Olin Hall (OH), Room 107 (Directions)
Rob Lindeman
(see below)
imgd-seminar [at] wpi.edu (to subscribe, email claypool [at] cs.wpi.edu)

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Date Speaker (click names for bios) Title (click for abstract) Materials
Sep. 13, 2007 Yusuf Pisan (WPI/The University of Technology, Sydney) Reflections on "Virtual Worlds, Real Communities" course Course Web Site
Sep. 20, 2007 Dean O'Donnell (WPI/Humanities & Arts) The Wide Road: Narrative and Quest Design in an Action RPG
Sep. 27, 2007 Matthew Belmonte (Dept. of Human Development, Cornell University) Fictive Worlds Bring Out Real Skills: Video Game Environments for Assessing Autistic Cognition The Autism Collaborative
Oct. 11, 2007 TERM BREAK - NO SPEAKER
Oct. 18, 2007 TERM BREAK - NO SPEAKER
Nov. 1, 2007 Open Discussion Polishing Your IMGD Skills: The "Master Class" Concept at WPI Slides
Nov. 8, 2007 Brandon Franks, Director of IT (38 Studios) If I Knew Then What I Know Now
Nov. 15, 2007 Scot Osterweil (MIT Education Arcade) Keeping the Play in Learning Games Slides (997K)
Nov. 29, 2007 Cardell Kerr (Creative Director, Lord of the Rings Online, Turbine, Inc.) Chocolate is to Peanut Butter, as Design is to ___________. Slides (1.4MB)
Webcast of talk (556MB)
Dec. 6, 2007 Steve Gargolinski (Blue Fang Games) Characteristics of Games and Intelligence Webcast of talk (649MB)
Dec. 13, 2007 Kent Quirk (Linden Lab) When Bad Code Happens to Good Programmers Webcast of talk (587MB)

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