Earlier this month we launched the Game Salon, in the Game Innovation Lab!  For our first meeting, I would say it was pretty awesome.  What is the Game Salon all about, you ask?  The purpose of our group is to theoretically engage with current topics relating to the game development community at large. [...]

IMD is sponsoring Night Games at IndieCade this year!  The event will be outside on the streets in Culver City at Main St. and Culver Blvd.  All are welcome to participate in the fun from 7:00pm to 10:00pm Saturday October 8.  Playable Big Games at the Night Games event will include: Johann Sebastian Joust, Shadowplay, Super HyperCUBE, [...]

In a recent blog about his visit to the Game Innovation Lab , Tanner Higgin affectionately asserts that, “GIL is largely responsible for proving that academic game development can gestate innovative and relevant design that escapes the ivory tower and affects the actual consumer driven industry.”  Wow!  He elaborates on some of the projects that we showed [...]

Last Friday September 23rd, the Game Innovation Lab (GIL) hosted a group consisting of Stanton Fellows and people from the Durfee Foundation.   GIL researchers Kurosh ValaNejad, Sean Bouchard, and Elizabeth Swensen present their work in the photos above.