gordoncalleja
@gordoncalleja
Director@ the Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta, Associate Prof.@ the Center for Games Research, ITU Copenhagen & Game Designer@ Mighty Boards.
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http://www.gordoncalleja.com 24-08-2008 14:14:28
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Excited to present the cover of my upcoming book with The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social: Unboxed: Board Game Experience and Design. A big thanks to Philipp Kruse for the illustration and Heiko Gunther for the layout. The book releases on October 4th. Pre-order link: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710652/u…
Time for another celebration Institute of Digital Games - University of Malta🏅! IDG researchers Marvin Zammit Antonios Liapis Georgios N. Yannakakis received the Best Student Paper award at the ICCC'25 for their work on "Seeding Diversity in AI Art". Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2205.00804 #ArtificialIntelligence #research
Playing some solo sessions of Vengeance: Roll & Fight (Mighty Boards 🔜 UKGE 3-634), a quicker, smaller version of one of my favorite games, Vengeance. It focuses on the boss den puzzle elements, but still retains much of the thematic elements that made the original game so compelling.
Barnes and Noble is offering a 25% discount on pre-orders for Unboxed, my upcoming book from The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social only for today (8th September). If you're interested you can hop on the link below and enter the code PREORDER25 at checkout: barnesandnoble.com/w/unboxed-gord… Barnes & Noble
New this week from the MIT Press: - Body Am I by Mo Costandi - Digital Lethargy by Tung-Hui Hu - Unboxed by gordoncalleja - Placebos by Kathryn Hall PhD MPH - Whiteness by Martin Lund And more: mitpress.mit.edu/new-releases/
Had a chance to play the prototype version of Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan by gordoncalleja and Mighty Boards 🔜 UKGE 3-634 at #SPIEL22. Elegantly designed coop action with an ambitious narrative and campaign structure. I really dug it!
Gorgeous cover on Unboxed, a book from designer gordoncalleja and The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social that "explores the experience of playing board games and how game designers shape that experience". (Note: I was interviewed for this book.) Details: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262543958/… —WEM
Read our review of Unboxed: Board Game Experience and Design from gordoncalleja, a discussion of the board game experience with the technical precision of a watchmaker, to find out if this book belongs on your game design shelf. meeplemountain.com/reviews/unboxe… #BoardGames #GameDesign