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Gram’s Fairy Tales: Manual & Grimoire
Taper, an online literary magazine published twice yearly, is now in its 12th issue. An independent editorial collective (Kyle Booten, Angela Chang, Kavi Duvvoori, Leonardo Flores, Helen Shewolfe...
Future Thinking
Professor Flanagan participated in the Ditchley Foundation’s thinktank on the “Impact of AI on work and education.” Focusing on the large questions of our time, the group debated questions...
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Poetix
February 14 is Valentine’s Day for many; this year, it’s also Ash Wednesday for Western Christians, both Orthodox and unorthodox. Universally, it is Harry Mathews’s birthday. Harry, who wou...
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Can Games Disturb Your Social Biases Without Disturbing You?
Card games are more often associated with family-gatherings or leisurely afternoons than with realizing social change. However, one group of game designers is creating games with an aim to do jus...
Mary Flanagan travels to Spiel Essen 2023!
SPIEL Essen is one of the world’s largest board game conventions boasting of roughly 1000 exhibitiors and over 150,000 visitors annually. Professor Flanagan attended this year’s extravaganza,...
Tiltfactor’s Max Seidman ’12 presents at Hypertherm’s HR retreat
Hypertherm is a 100% employee-owned company focusing on industrial cutting technologies and solutions and is leading the industry in this area. Their local campus in Lebanon, NH invited Tiltfacto...
Professor Mary Flanagan joins other game professionals to discuss colonialism in games
Homo Ludens, a youtube channel dedicated to history and board games, featured Mary Flanagan along with other game professionals and researchers in a stream that aired on Feb 27. The discussion ce...
Tiltfactor Lab and the National Academy of Sciences Team Up To Create “Glitch Squad”
Glitch Squad was created in a collaboration between Professor Mary Flanagan’s game design publishing company, Resonym, LabX, a public engagement test bed at the National Academy of Sciences, an...
Professor Mary Flanagan Serves on the Jury of National Academies Awards Program
The goal of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communication is to “encourage high-quality science communication and build a diverse community of sci...
Advice Concerning the Increase in AI-Assisted Writing
Edward Schiappa, Professor of Rhetoric Nick Montfort, Professor of Digital Media 10 January 2023 There has been a noticeable increase in student use of AI assistance for writing recently. Instru...
Game On! Tiltfactor Alums gather at Pax Unplugged
PAX Unplugged is an annual tabletop game convention in Philadelphia, PA in December. This year, Professor Mary Flanagan’s game studio Resonym featured two games at the convention: Phantom Ink a...
Professor Mary Flanagan: New Games and New Book!
Professor Flanagan’s game company Resonym has introduced two new games this year: Phantom Ink and Retrograde. Her recent trip to Gen Con indicated that Phantom Ink is a huge hit already with ga...
Tiltfactor’s Mary Flanagan gives Keynote address at Gen Con
Professor Mary Flanagan delivered the keynote talk at Gen Con this summer. Gen Con is one of the largest gaming conventions in North America and is held annually in Indianapolis, IN.
Glitch Lab Exhibition a Huge Success
PortrAIts: Digital Portraiture & Social Identity opened in the BVAC Student Gallery on Tuesday, May 24th with a small but very engaged crowd of viewers. The interactive exhibition explored how ar...
Glitch Squad Press Release
April 6, 2022 (Hanover, NH) – The latest board game designed at Tiltfactor, Glitch Squad, is being published by Resonym, and coming to Kickstarter on April 19th.
Glitch Lab Student Spotlight: Egemin Sahin ’23
In our second installment of our Glitch Lab Student Spotlights, we hear from Egemin Sahin ’23 about his work experimenting with and researching various A.I.s for our project. Can you tell us a ...
Glitch Lab Student Spotlight: Clara Pakman
This winter, the GLITCHLab’s started meeting in person for weekly lab hours in which we collaborate on our most recent projects, swap ideas, and get to know each other better. As the designated...
Tiltfactor Receives Hopkins Center Arts Integration Initiative Grant
We’re happy to announce that Tiltfactor is the proud recipient of an Arts Integration Initiative Grant from the Hopkins Center for the Arts to sponsor our student and faculty-led work. Our ongo...
The Engagements of Difference Machines
It’s been a while since I stopped over in Buffalo, but I’m finally unfrozen, and I’m unfreezing my blog, too, to comment a bit on the exhibit I saw — this was the purpose of my brief wint...
Mary Flanagan and Tiltfactor Alum Gili Freedman Publish New Article in Technology, Mind, and Behavior
Tiltfactor founding director Mary Flanagan and Tiltfactor alum Gili Freedman (currently Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at St. Mary’s College of Maryland) recently collaborated...
Mary Flanagan Makes Guinness World Records 2022 Book for Atari-Style Artwork
Tiltfactor Lab’s very own Mary Flanagan was inspired by the Atari 2600 digital experiences of her childhood to create the artwork , a 10-foot tall Atari CX40 controller weighing about 3,000 pou...
Meet Tiltfactor’s Student Team
At Tiltfactor, we wanted to celebrate our first term back in person with a shout-out to our amazing student squad! These critical play superstars are hard at work in the @tiltfactor lab examini...
A 6 byte Commodore 64 Demo
If you thought my last post about a 32 byte (plus 2 byte load address) Commodore 64 demo was esoteric, wait until you burrow into this one. Back in March at Lovebyte I released a C64 demo that is...
C64 Coding Under (Many) Constraints
Yesterday I wrote a little demoscene production, an intro, called “Tyger Tyger.” It’s a Commodore 64 machine language program with 32 bytes of code and the requisite 2 byte header, found on...
Tiltfactor Lab and National Academy of Sciences LabX Collaborate on a new Game
Tiltfactor and LabX examine the challenges of forensic science in an upcoming game that will be announced this fall. Can you and your partner figure out the clues in time? Look for a sneak peak c...
“Ask the Expert”
Dartmouth Alumni Magazine’s, Ask the Expert series, interviewed Professor Mary Flanagan in light of the significant increase in consumer spending on games during the pandemic. Check out what Ma...
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Tiltfactor’s VR game ‘Entangled’ is coming to Steam!
As a scientist sucked into a conflict playing out across parallel universes, you will have to solve puzzles between alternate versions of your lab to stay one step ahead of pursuit. Log in to Ste...
Mary Flanagan offers thoughts on the “Future of Humanity” at a Dartmouth Conference
Sponsored by the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth (ICE), scientists and humanists gathered to ponder our future from different perspectives. See Tiltfactor’s Director, P...
Tiltfactor’s Mary Flanagan offers advice to the class of 2021
Dartmouth Professors share six words of life advice with the Class of 2021. See what Professor Flanagan and her colleagues have to say to Dartmouth’s latest grads! https://www.thedartmouth.com/...
Tiltfactor’s “Embedded Design” Theory Discussed in New Book
Tiltfactor’s Director, Professor Mary Flanagan’s new chapter, “If you Play it, Do you Believe It?” has now been published in a new book. “Narrative Mechanics: Strategies and Meanings ...