PlayableMedia@UCSC

The Center for Games and Playable Media at UC Santa Cruz! We play, we build, we create, we research!

[PlayableMedia@UCSC @playableUCSC]

Huge thanks to the incredible speakers, stream managers (@jag_pag, @JoMazeika), chairs (@meldckn, @noahwf, @susanaruizz, @TheJimWhitehead), and audience for making the 1st research track at the #SammyShowcase a success! It's feeling like the start of a long tradition

[UCSC OpenLab @openlab_]

There is only one week left to experience Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s FOREST (for a thousand years...) at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum. The exhibition is up through Sunday, July 1. T-F, 12-5 pm, Saturday and Sunday, 10- 5 pm. https://t.co/KcH8TCNMBl

[UCSC Games & Playable Media / Serious Games MS @UCSCGame]

What a fun weekend! The Sammy Showcase was a blast with 200+ people in attendance to celebrate games at @ucsc. There were many winners among our graduate program. If you missed it this year, be sure to join us in 2019!

@UCSC_BSOE @playableUCSC

[PlayableMedia@UCSC @playableUCSC]

👏🏽 https://t.co/tziV5MRZQG

[Kleptonaut @KleptonautGame]

Kleptonaut wins the Grand Prize at #SammyShowcase!! Thank you to all of our judges and @UCSCGame @playableUCSC!

[PlayableMedia@UCSC @playableUCSC]

Forgotten story generators' stories and a call to save more from being lost to history by @xfoml at #SammyShowcase

[Noah Wardrip-Fruin @noahwf]

The #SammyShowcase is in full swing here in Santa Clara (free game festival with research and game design presentations) and we're live streaming research talks at https://t.co/gdNQGkPVP1 https://t.co/FjWwpuwPpy

[PlayableMedia@UCSC @playableUCSC]

Research presentations at the #SammyShowcase going live at https://t.co/XAxA5a4mu8 in about 10 minutes! (1:20pm PST)!

[everybody's sad @everybodys_sad]

2 days until we launch at the Sammy Showcase, where you can play @everybodys_sad from noon-6 @ UCSC's Santa Clara campus! For the countdown, we gave our site a makeover. Check us out at https://t.co/9hifzYV4y0 !

[Nathan Altice @circuitlions]

Hey y'all, UCSC's Sammy Showcase is tomorrow! All our senior capstone games are setup for display! And there will be research talks (including mine, on Bandai board games), which will be streamed on YouTube. Come heckle me online, you cowards! https://t.co/gf3Ef1DBy5

[James Ryan @xfoml]

I'll be giving a talk tomorrow afternoon (in Santa Clara & on livestream) about an obscure computer story generator from the early 1960s—more info on the event and its many rad speakers at: https://t.co/i1auPXhJHW

[UCSC Games & Playable Media / Serious Games MS @UCSCGame]

Sammy Showcase is tomorrow! We are so pumped and getting things ready. Join us for a fun filled day! https://t.co/sBCMUiKjfc

[Robin Hunicke @hunicke]

Many great things going on this weekend at the Sammy Showcase - if you are in the bay area come by!! https://t.co/54FNxfy7Jm

[PlayableMedia@UCSC @playableUCSC]

Talks from 1:20-6pm at @UCSCGame in Santa Clara. Or catch the livestream at https://t.co/ghM2rzpkVY!

[PlayableMedia@UCSC @playableUCSC]

This Saturday, join us for a games research mini-conference at the Sammy Showcase (https://t.co/UA9YbyLofA) featuring @xfoml @circuitlions @sorayamurray @rndmcnlly @JordanMagnuson @karaastone @gamesandbowties @BatuAytemiz @Jareduval @GalaxyKate @isaackarth @maxkreminski @lucasnfe

[Noah Wardrip-Fruin @noahwf]

Considering grad school? Tomorrow (Thursday) at 1:30 PST we'll be doing the second online information session for the new Computational Media MS & PhD at UC Santa Cruz. Come live to ask questions, or check out this morning's archived session, here: https://t.co/k09boPSk1S

[PlayableMedia@UCSC @playableUCSC]

At UC Santa Cruz we are excited to announce we are hiring four games-focused faculty in Silicon Valley! https://t.co/FvyFs5qjiQ

[Jim Whitehead @TheJimWhitehead]

UCSC Comp. Media is hiring 4 games profs!
https://t.co/FSU16sXoIY
https://t.co/qwaqSV7lzo
https://t.co/7baRKresb9
https://t.co/1vJRu6rTXK

[PlayableMedia@UCSC @playableUCSC]

If you want to know more, please be in touch: [email protected]

[PlayableMedia@UCSC @playableUCSC]

3 & 4: Last year we launched a new MS & PhD in Comp Media: research degrees covering games, interactive story, VR, visualization, DH, etc

[PlayableMedia@UCSC @playableUCSC]

2: We're launching a new, five quarter curriculum for our professional MS in Games & Playable Media - with deeper education and lower cost