When we talk about designing ethically challenging games, the question obviously arises of why such games exist at all. We can talk about the “serious”…
Morality Play Posts
I’ve set up a new moralityplay.itch.io site to host games developed by the Macquarie University Morality Play project. The latest version of The Great Fire…
I have opined before about the imbalance between theoretical models and empirical data in the area of ethical gameplay. The past decade has produced a…
I have created a Mendeley group for Morality Play researchers to share papers of interest. If you are interested in joining the group, please email…
[EDIT: The deadline for submissions has been extended until April 3]. The Morality Play workshop (first held at FDG/DiGRA 2016) will return to DiGRA 2020…
The Serious Games Research Network and the Department of Computing at Macquarie University (Sydney Australia) are offering a 3-year PhD scholarship for a student interested doing a project involving…
Date: January 16/17, 2020 Location: Collegium Helveticum (Schmelzbergstrasse 25, 8006 Zürich), Zurich University of the Arts (Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich) Keynote Speaker: Celia Hodent (Game…
A conversation between Jane Messer, Paul Formosa and I about the narrative design for The Great Fire from the Digital Writer’s Festival: Play the game…
Quandary is an online and mobile game developed by the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development at Tufts University. Targetted at children aged eight…
Jane Messer, Paul Formosa and I will be presenting The Great Fire, our project investigating moral descision-making in games, at the 2019 Digital Writers’ Festival.…