Game Design for the End of the World Tuesday, April 5 at 7p.m. Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons Climate change, pandemics, political polarization, systemic racism, and capitalism run amok! If there’s anything that marks the 2020s, it’s a sense that life on the planet is increasingly under attack. Games –particularly video games – have explored…
Wednesday, April 6 at 4:30 p.m. Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons In this talk, which is written as a love letter, Professor TreaAndrea M. Russworm (she/her) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst examines different modalities of Black cultural life—hip hop, Blaxploitation film, popular fiction, and simulation games—as spatial-speculative tools for playing in a broken world.…
