Game Design And Development Articles

An Inside Look at Meditation

An intersection of meditation disciplines and designing experiences

Casey O'Donnell

Creative Dying Card Game Receives Nomination for IndieCade Best Tabletop Design Award

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For the love of games: Esports at MSU

Graphic shaped like a video game controller. Text: International Conference on Meaningful Play, October 12–14, East Lansing, MI, USA

Meaningful Play returns to MSU for its seventh year

Will Winn Games Inc launches video game, Plunder Panic

Experience a pirate’s life across various gaming platforms in multiplayer video game, “Plunder Panic”

new publications from ComArtSci

Art, advertising, game design and strategic communication: Four faculty members publish new books

New Esports Director Christopher Bilski

Christopher Bilski announced as new director of esports at MSU

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Lee Wins Annie Lang Dissertation Award

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Department of Media and Information’s Serious Games Graduate Certificate Names New Director

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Brandt Fellowship Awarded to Two ComArtSci Faculty Members

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GameDev at MSU Ranks 1st in the U.S. for Public University Programs in Game Design

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MSU Offers Video Game Certificate on Coursera

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GameDev at MSU Presents Virtual Fall Showcase

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Award-winning ComArtSci Game Designer Inducted into Women in Games Hall of Fame

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Promoting Meaningful Play: Empathic Games Showcased in Science Gallery Exhibit

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The New Essential Workers: ComArtSci Launches New Programs in Information Science, Interactive Games and Communication

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MSU Ranks 7th in Undergraduate Programs for Game Design in Princeton Review

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Spartans Don't Just Play the Game, They Create It

Spartio

MSU Game Design and Development Program Ranks 7th Nationwide

Three alumni around a video game pipe with Sparty in 8-bit styling

MSU's Gaming Pipeline Leads Graduates to Competitive Careers

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Brain Powered Games Come to the Aid of Children Suffering from Malaria, HIV

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Fulbright Scholar Ups the Game against Climate Change

Brenden Melody in one of the media summer camps

High School Students Level Up at MSU Media Summer Camps

Elizabeth Lapensee wearing a teal colored dress standing outside the Communication Arts and Sciences building with the pine trees in the background

Assistant Professor LaPensée Taps Power of Gaming to Share Indigenous Experience

Rellika Kisyula

Kisyula Overcomes Adversity to Become the ComArtSci Banner Carrier

Ratan Plays Fortnite at His Desk

Professor Meets with Parents on Healthy Gameplay

Evan Edwards

Evan Edwards Levels Up West Coast Field Experience into Game Development Career

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Meaningful Play Pushes the Boundaries of Game Development and Design

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Inclusiveness Committee Aims to Build Empathy Through Game Design

Student filmmakers watch the debut of their film Crandie's.

In the Game and Behind the Scenes at Traverse City Film Festival

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Researchers Review Serious Gaming to Help Children with Chronic Illness

Students in the game program posing in their VR goggles.

Gaming Programs Ranked Top Ten by Princeton Review

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GEL Lab’s Plunder Panic Advances to SXSW Gaming Pitch Competition

Screen capture of the thunderbird in LaPensee's game.

Raising Awareness for Indigenous Issues

ComArtSci and WKAR Pioneer Tablet-Based Research Project

A screenshot from LaPensee's game, Thunderbird Strike, showing some animals, an oil rig and a thunderbird flying overhead.

Thunderbird Strike Wins Best Digital Media Work at imagineNATIVE and Stirs Controversy

IndieCade(Featured)

The Creative Collaboration Behind Plunder Panic

Jeremy Bond's textbook cover

Game Designer Publishes Second Edition of Textbook

The MSU TCFF booklet reading, "WHO WILL BE THE NEXT GENERATION OF STORYTELLERS? SPARTANS WILL."

Traverse City Film Festival Recap

Researchers Use Mobile Game "Chicken Scream" to Study Vocal Health

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Serious Games: Counterintuitively Delightful

MSU Game Design Ranks among Princeton Review’s Top 20 and #1 in Big Ten

Creating a Game and Skating With It

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Meditate to Change Your State: MI Professor Publishes RelaxU App

Game Designers and More Gathered for the 5th Annual Meaningful Play Conference at Michigan State University

The (Virtual) Reality of the Meaningful 2016 Play Conference

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Honour Water: A Singing Game for Healing the Waters

Two characters from the game Kerem B-Yavneh. The background is a desert scene by the ocean.

MSU GEL Lab Creates Educational Game that Transports Students of Jewish History to Ancient World

Five girls from the MSU Media Summer Camp are sitting on the floor designing games on iPads.

Are Men Better at Video Games than Women? Research Gives Us the Answer