Game Design

The Polyphonic project explores collecting real-world data by piggybacking on game streaming communities such as Twitch, which capture over a trillion min...

How can games help address the challenge of climate change? Through research and design, we are exploring ways that games can motivate collective action, ...

Bloomwood Stories: Block Party is a visual novel that aims to increase players' health self-efficacy and connect them to health resources at their local l...

Live-action role-playing (larp) combines face-to-face improvisation with game rules to create collaborative, playful narrative experiences for the partici...

Playtesting helps game designers evaluate not whether their games are useful and usable, but whether they are playful and playable. Strong playtest skills...

Can we use games to reduce opioid use and abuse after a work-related injury? This exploratory project looks at how games can intervene in pain-management ...

A rich element of cooperative games are mechanics that communicate. Unlike automated awareness cues and synchronous verbal communication, cooperative comm...