Archive for Transformative Game Design Student Work
We have created an archive that contains games developed for transformative purposes by students in the Transformative Game Design Certificate Track. Click this link to browse the games.
TPI Seminar 2022: Experience China’s Intangible Cultural Heritages in Role-playing Games — Yuqiao Liu
This poster presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: In recent years, considerable attention has been devoted to preserving intangible cultural heritage (ICH) through games. From combined game…
TPI Seminar 2022: ‘Make It Urgent’: Prototyping Role-play Design for Intercultural Trainings — Alexandra Schreiber
This poster presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Playing games is at the heart of the workshop “Serious Games for Intercultural Learning” offered by the Intercultural Learning…
TPI Seminar 2022: Learning the History of Ancient Roman Forum of Thessaloniki through Edu-Larp- Theodosiou & Gkountona
This poster presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: The educational program “Everyday life in the Roman Agora of Thessaloniki, Greece: An experiential approach with the method Edu…
TPI Seminar 2022: Literature Surrounding the Intersection of Role-Playing Games, Race, and Identity — Marissa Baker
This poster presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Read full article here: Description: Some of the most popular role-playing games (RPGs) limit the potential for diversity among…
TPI Seminar 2022: Fictional History Frames in an Intercultural Larp — Michael Freudenthal
This poster presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Many larp workshops aim to harmonize player cultures, norms and expectations for their engagement in fiction to flow seamlessly…
TPI Seminar 2022: Looking Behind the Curtain: Assessing the Invisible Work of the Magic Circle — Steven L. Dashiell
This poster presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: This research examines gender difference, associated norms, and their effect on the ability to deeply participate in gameplay. Since…
TPI Seminar 2022: Larp in Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy (CBT) — Lennart Bartenstein
This poster presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Role play is a foundational component of established forms of psychotherapy such as psychodrama (Kipper 1992). Recent literature has…
TPI Seminar 2022: Vampire Foucault: Erotic Horror Role Playing Games as a Technologies of the Self — Albert Spencer
This poster presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: In Technologies of the Self (1988), philosopher and sociologist Michel Foucault summarizes his life work as an analysis of…
TPI Seminar 2022: Larp as a Potential Space for Non-formal Queer Cultural Heritage — Josephine Baird
This presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Queer experience has, until very recently, been invisible or significantly misrepresented in cultural and scholarly fields of record including history,…