Games for Entertainment and Learning Lab

10/03/2022

Work with us!

Our department seeks to hire a tenure-track faculty member to serve as Director of our Serious Games Certificate (SGC) program while continuing their research, publication, and teaching efforts. We welcome applications from emerging and established scholars at the Assistant or Associate rank who have sufficient relevant experience in Game Studies with terminal degrees from a related discipline, such as anthropology, communication, computer science, design, engineering, history, human-computer interaction, human-machine communication, information science, psychology, science & technology studies, sociology, or socio-technical systems. Scholars who examine socially-relevant topics (e.g., diversity, equity, inclusion, race, class, gender, sexuality, age, education, health, and disability) and their relationship to games are especially encouraged to apply. Expected start date is August 15, 2023.

Read more and apply:
https://careers.msu.edu/cw/en-us/job/512411/assistantassociate-professor-tenure-system

08/10/2018

We have an AWESOME line-up of featured speakers for Meaningful Play 2018! So cool everyone is coming to play in our sandbox!

Whether designed to entertain or to achieve more "serious" purposes, games, virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality have the potential to impact players' beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, physical and mental health, and behavior.

05/14/2018

Here is the shareable link to the Public GEL folder on Google Drive.

03/17/2018

Didn’t plunder the big prize, but we sailed away with some excellent b***y! Official finalist in the gaming pitch competition at SXSW! Incredibly proud of the team, and can’t wait for our next adventure at Indie Megabooth at PAX East.

Brian Winn can vouch for the award, it’s legit. He bit it.

03/16/2018

Indie MEGABOOTH is bringing 100 wicked awesome indie games to PAX East 2018, in Boston from April 5-8. This calls for a MEGA gameplay montage! For more info,...

03/09/2018

Plunder Panic is an official selection of Indie Megabooth at PAX East 2018! We're shipping up to Boston, whoa!

03/06/2018

03/03/2018

Ahoy mateys! Plunder Panic had it’s first media session today. We teamed up with a talented videographer to gather promotional material for our upcoming trips. Be on the lookout for some awesome footage soon!

03/02/2018

Learn about things that are happening in the Lansing area that you just may not know about. Walk away knowing about the different cool technologies and groups that are here to spark your interest in new technologies.

02/28/2018

At Michigan State University, we have been building a swashbuckling, 12-person multiplayer arcade game, called Plunder Panic , where two rival crews battle for supremacy on the high seas. Created in the style of a late 80s or early 90s arcade game, Plunder Panic offers multiple paths to victory,...

02/10/2018

Hey what do you know. Our game, Isotopolis, is on exhibit at Impression 5 Museum today!

12/09/2017