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Abe SteinSingapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA
What is GAMBIT?• Game Research Laboratory at MIT
• Collaboration with government of Singapore
• Media Development Authority
• Train Singaporean and MIT students to make games
• Conduct design research, player studies, game criticism, theorizing, and study industry best practices
We make serious games.
Game Studies TodayShould we study games or players?
Game Studies
Platform StudiesProcedural Rhetoric
Genre StudyFormalism
HCI
Player StudiesPlayer Experience
TransferEffect
Game CultureLiteracy
Participatory Culture
Game Studies Today
Serious games are largely supported and developed based
on ontological theories of games, and on research
studying the effects of play.
What now?
We must reinvest in studying how players experience games.
We must problematize current assumptions about serious
games, and the way players engage them.
@abesteingambit.mit.edu
www.simplercreature.com
