AU Game Center

The American University Game Center serves as a hub for experiential education, persuasive play research, and innovative production in games and play

[AU Game Center @auGameCenter]

Get your MFA in Games and Interactive Media or your MA in Game Design from @AmericanU! Unique opportunities to create games for change in DC https://t.co/xy55rNd0eR https://t.co/TriNjXqHqV #augamelab @AU_SOC @AUcollege @AmericanUalum

[AU SOC @AU_SOC]

After an 83-year history, #AUSOC's Benjamin Stokes/@bgstokes brought major changes to the @PeabodyAwards, as "Interactive Media" - including Interactive Journalism, Games,Play & Documentary - was awarded for the first time. Learn more in our latest story. https://t.co/C3QBkj9p3y

[Andy Phelps @andymphelps]

hanging out at the @UN with @G4C in NYC. Thinking on games and media relative to UN sustainability dev goals. @AU_SOC @auGameCenter @AUcollege @AUResearch #g4c2023 #g4c23

[Andy Phelps @andymphelps]

Spent the week helping friends design curriculum for Interactive Digital Narrative in Malta as part of an @COST_INDCOR grant, with help and support from @theHEVGA. Wonderful to work with an amazing group. @AU_SOC @AUResearch @AUcollege @auGameCenter @hkoenitz @HogskolanSkovde

[Andy Phelps @andymphelps]

new paper out with @Dashiellsteven on GTA discourse and male gender capital and gaming capital: https://t.co/9qOd0VryEY

grateful for all he does at @auGameCenter @AUResearch @AU_SOC @AUcollege

[AU Game Center @auGameCenter]

@deftjams @Dashiellsteven contact steven dashiell (email is on our center webpage) - thanks!

[Steven Dashiell, PhD ~ @dashiellsteven.bsky.social @Dashiellsteven]

If you play #diablo hardcore we want to talk to you! @auGameCenter is doing online interviews w/ hardcore gamers to better understand their motivations. There is an incentive for participating, & interviews are only about 60 min long. Pls signal boost! #gamestudies

[Andy Phelps @andymphelps]

awesome work by @auGameCenter post doc Steven Dashiell! congrats! @AU_SOC @AUcollege @AUResearch

[AU Game Center @auGameCenter]

congrats to our resident post-doc on this great piece- check it out!! @AU_SOC @AUcollege

[Steven Dashiell, PhD ~ @dashiellsteven.bsky.social @Dashiellsteven]

My piece at @ConversationEDU discussing Hogwart's Legacy and black players was just published! I examine #gamestudies and #bourdieu concepts to explain why there is a lot of interest in the game among Black players. https://t.co/jHSHURmqT8

[Andy Phelps @andymphelps]

I’ll be presenting “Of Platforms & Incngruities of Virtual Party Worlds (There is much more to the party than the house)” at @CoEGameCult Spring Seminar with @Dashiellsteven in Tampere in May! @auGameCenter @AU_SOC @AUcollege @HITLabNZ @UCArts @UCNZ_DSC Party on!

[AU Game Center @auGameCenter]

here’s a bunch of us at @Official_GDC from @auGameCenter, a pleasure to spend time with both current MFA students and alum! @AU_SOC @AUcollege

[Andy Phelps @andymphelps]

hey all, i’ll be at @Official_GDC next week in my capacity as prez at @theHEVGA and also repping @auGameCenter and @HITLabNZ and @UCNZ_DSC. reach out to meet up! HEVGA members join us tuesday night for announcement of new #hevgaFellows @AU_SOC @AUcollege @UCNZ @UCNZArts @theESA

[Andy Phelps @andymphelps]

super proud to have helped establish and kick off @UCNZ_DSC, a 130M new campus for film/games/digital media at @UCNZ. Humbled to worth with other founders and so excited to see what’s next in edu, research, entrp, and com partnership. @HITLabNZ @AU_SOC @AUcollege #auGameCenter

[AU Game Center @auGameCenter]

a reminder we are in the process of looking for some amazing MA and MFA candidates@to join us next year- come make games that have societal, governmental, democratic, and playful impact! Learn more at https://t.co/rLsdqlj3F1

[Andy Phelps @andymphelps]

Here’s the slides for our talk at #hicss56 @HICSSnews from me, @miaC, @bowmanspartan, and @Velixious at https://t.co/hUenjeZ3yS and also the paper at https://t.co/3FeppQY7xy @auGameCenter @AU_SOC @UCNZ_DSC @HITLabNZ

[Steven Dashiell, PhD ~ @dashiellsteven.bsky.social @Dashiellsteven]

Out here representing @auGameCenter and @AUcollege being interviewed about Dungeons and Dragons and race!

[Benjamin Stokes @bgstokes]

NEW SEARCH: open-rank researcher in Comm Policy, Tech and Democracy @AmericanU. Join us in DC -- an exceptional place for impact. Bring your center, or join folks like @InternetGov and @CMSImpact. Bridge schools @AU_SOC @AUWCL @AU_SIS @AU_SPA @Kogodbiz. https://t.co/6i2FWnGpP4

[Andy Phelps @andymphelps]

A reminder that we are always looking for great MA and MFA candidates in games at the @augamecenter! Reach out to me if you need more information. #makeGreatGames #gamesedu

[AU Game Center @auGameCenter]

*co-founding of course. Sorry Ben!

[AU Game Center @auGameCenter]

Thrilled to see our own @bgstokes recognized for his role in confounding @G4C in @WIRED. WTG both Ben and friends!

https://t.co/12AkgBT59V

[Andy Phelps @andymphelps]

If dates are to be believed, i've apparently been president at @theHEVGA for 5 years! More importantly, we passed another milestone & now rep more than 500 colleges & universities world-wide with games curriculum & research. #grateful #gamesedu @theESA @G4C @IGDA @IGDAFoundation