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ACM C&C'22: Build Your Own Arcade Machine with Tinycade

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 20:47:11 +0000

ACM C&C'22: Build Your Own Arcade Machine with Tinycade Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 06/20/2022 - 14:47

Researchers from ATLAS Institute’s ACME Lab presented one pictorial and two graduate student symposium papers at the 14th ACM Creativity & Cognition (C&C), which took place June 20-23 in Venice, Italy. The theme of this year's conference was "Creativity, Craft and Design."

Pictorial

ACME Lab

Build Your Own Arcade Machine with Tinycade authored by Peter Gyory, (ATLAS PhD student); Perry Owens, (Creative Industries master’s student); Matthew Bethancourt, (teaching associate professor and director of the Whaaat?! Lab;) Amy Banic, (visiting associate professor, ATLAS/computer science;) Clement Zheng, (ATLAS post-doctoral research associate, PhD, Technology, Media & Society ‘20) and Ellen Yi-Luen Do, (faculty, ATLAS/computer science).

Tinycade is a platform designed to help game designers build their own mini arcade games by hand. With this platform, one can craft functioning game controllers out of everyday materials such as cardboard and toothpicks. In this pictorial, the authors discuss the functionality of Tinycade and showcase three games that demonstrate the variety of controls possible with this platform.

Publication

Peter Gyory, Perry Y Owens, Matthew Bethancourt, Amy Banic, Clement Zheng, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2022. “Build Your Own Arcade Machine with Tinycade,” In 14th ACM conference on Creativity & Cognition, (June 20-23, 2022—Venice, Italy).

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ACME LAB @ ACM C&C

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 20:33:59 +0000

ACME LAB @ ACM C&C Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 06/02/2022 - 14:33

Researchers from ATLAS Institute’s ACME Lab will present one pictorial and two Graduate Student Symposium papers at the 14th ACM Creativity & Cognition (C&C), which will take place June 20-23 in Venice, Italy. The theme of this year's conference is "Creativity, Craft and Design."

Professor Ellen Yi-Luen Do, director of the ACME Lab, who is serving on the steering committee for the C&C conference series, is also the co-chair for the conference’s Graduate Student Symposium and co-chair for publicity. Besides being a co-author of the Tinycade paper, Do will also chair Session 7 on Sound and Music. Do also received a NSF grant (Award Abstract # 2225941) to support bringing graduate students to the conference.

Held every other year in an international location since 1993, C&C serves as a gathering place for a diverse community of researchers, designers, engineers and artists who provide a cross-disciplinary perspective on creativity and cognition as well as technological innovation. It serves as a premier forum for presenting the world's best new research investigating computing's impact on and ability to promote creativity in all forms of human experience.

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Four ATLAS teams selected for coveted GDC showcase

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 23:11:41 +0000

Four ATLAS teams selected for coveted GDC showcase Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 01/19/2022 - 16:11

Miniature cardboard arcades, ketchup and mustard bottle game controllers, physically mining for cryptocurrency and manic pizza, candy and gold stock trading over the phone: These are the concepts behind four games developed in ��ϳԹ�'s ATLAS Institute that have been selected to participate in alt.ctrl.GDC 2022, a coveted showcase of new games that feature unusual controls and surprising interactions. The event is part of GDC, the world's largest professional game developers conference, which takes place March 21-25 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. A favorite stopover for thousands of GDC attendees, alt.ctrl.GDC features 15 finalists. All sharing ties to the College of Engineering and Applied Science, three of the ATLAS teams are associated with the Whaaat!? Lab and one hails from the ACME Lab. "To have four ATLAS games picked for the 15 slots in this exclusive venue—it's a remarkable accomplishment. We're going to have a lot of fun," said Matt Bethancourt, co-director of the Whaaat!? Lab and a senior teaching associate professor with ATLAS.

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Whaaat!? Festival returns from virtual wilderness

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 20:45:13 +0000

Whaaat!? Festival returns from virtual wilderness Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/06/2021 - 14:45

ATLAS Institute's Whaaat!? Festival has returned from the virtual wilderness and will be held in person on November 14 in the Roser ATLAS building. The fourth annual event will include an arcade and conference packed with phenomenal guest speakers, bizarre games and experimental interactions. And yeah, they’re gonna have cereal again, too!

Organized by Whaaat!? Lab for Games and Experimental Interactions' co-directors Matt Bethancourt and Danny Rankin, the dynamic duo created the festival in 2018, connecting ATLAS with the world of indie games and successfully seeding an enthusiastic community of offbeat game makers. Working around the restrictions of the pandemic last year, the Whaaat!? Festival morphed into a regular series of online events that ran throughout the academic year.

"The festival's goal is to feature creative and original games that break the rules, inspiring delight by forging new ways to live, interact and play," says Bethancourt, a teaching associate professor with ATLAS. Putting it more succinctly, "We want to make people say 'Whaaat!?'" he says.

Two Ways to Whaaat!?: Arcade and Conference
Free and open to all, the Whaaat!? Arcade will feature specially curated tabletop and digital games for participants to play until their fingers go numb and their brains feel inspired. The arcade will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 14, and conference organizers note, "it will be a 100 percent delight!"

Sponsored by the ATLAS Institute and the ��ϳԹ� Engineering Excellence Fund, the Whaaat!? Conference is limited to 175 tickets at $30 and features talks, workshops, panels, lunch and a ton of fun surprises. Students may apply for scholarships to offset the cost of attending. This year conference organizers are thrilled to welcome Nicole He and Nathalie Lawhead as the event's two keynote speakers.

"There's a whole carnival's-worth of game-related weirdness in store," says Rankin, a teaching assistant professor. "We'll be making additional announcements as we get closer to the date. In the meantime, grab those tickets, contact us with any questions, and we’ll see you in November!"

If you go

What: ATLAS Institute's fourth annual Whaaat!? Festival

Where: University of Colorado, Roser ATLAS Center, 1125 18th St., Boulder

When: Sunday, Nov. 14: Conference: 10 AM – 4 PM | Arcade: 11 AM – 3 PM;

Cost: Arcade free; Conference $30 (Register separately for each.) Register Student scholarship application

More information

ATLAS Institute's Whaaat!? Festival has returned from the virtual wilderness! Back in-person in November, the fourth annual event promises an arcade and conference packed with phenomenal guest speakers, bizarre games and experimental interactions.

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