GamePipe News & Events
Viterbi Student Game Designers Show Off Work for Industry Judges
December 22, 2005, Viterbi Newswire
For the first student game presentation day December 6 for the ISI/Viterbi School's GamePipe Laboratory education program, director Mike Zyda and 53 students showed 14 projects to an audience of 12 industry judges — who came away visibly impressed. Zyda is an internationally known game theorist and designer profiled in a new book, Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution. Under his direction, GamePipe researches basic gaming technology (at USC's Information Sciences institute and on the University Park campus) and teachesit to students. "Serious" games - defined as " mental contest[s], according to certain rules, played with a computer, that .... (more)
Gaming for a smarter America
October 27, 2005, Physorg News
Video games have the potential to improve learning in the United States and keep the nation at the fore of global competition, say hopeful education and technology experts. Educators and cognitive scientists joined forces with software marketers and designers Tuesday to discuss the possibilities of merging digital gaming into the education of what some would describe as our increasingly attention-deficient society. Advertise on this site Your banner or text ad could be here Learn more ... "Ultimately, we are competing for people's leisure time," Lorne Lanning, co-founder of the Oddworld game company, said about the "market realities" facing both educators and game producers. "That leisure .... (more)
USC Gets 'Serious' With ImmuneAttack Game
October 12, 2006, Gamasutra News
LOS ANGELES--The University Of Southern California's GamePipe Laboratory, which announced late last year that it had appointed Michael Zyda of America's Army as its director, has announced that it has begun work on its first R&D contract: a $272,000 effort funded by the National Science Foundation to improve K-12 biology teaching. Zyda will lead the project, a game named ImmunoAttack, in collaboration with Chris Swain, a faculty member of the USC School of Cinema-Television, and Victor LaCour, a faculty member of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering department of computer science working with the Federation of American Scientists and Brown University. The title is .... (more)
USC designs ImmuneAttack game
October 11, 2006, The Inquirer
LOS ANGELES--THE UNIVERSITY of Southern California has announced that work has begun on its first project, a game to help biology students. The University's GamePipe Laboratory announced last year that it had appointed Michael Zyda of America's Army fame to direct the project. It has since begun work on the project funded by the National Science Foundation to help improve K-12 biology teaching. Zyda will collaborate with Chris Swain, a member of the faculty of the USC School of Cinema Television, as well as Victor LaCour, faculty member of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering department of computer science working with the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and Brown University. .... (more)
GamePipe Begins Work on ImmuneAttack
October 04, 2006, Viterbi Newswire
LOS ANGELES--The recently-established USC Viterbi School of Engineering GamePipe Laboratory has begun work on its first R&D contract: a $272,000 effort funded by the National Science Foundation to improve K-12 biology teaching. GamePipe director Michael Zyda will lead the ImmuneAttack project, in collaboration with Chris Swain, a faculty member of the USC School of Cinema-Television, and Victor LaCour, a lecturer in the Viterbi School's department of computer science, working with the Federation of American Scientists and Brown University.The idea is to supplement and extend the chapter on the immune system .... (more)