Posts tagged usc

Living Game Worlds III: The Game Mechanics of Reality

by Ross Miller (Apr 3rd 2007 9:00AM)

Is the games industry burdened by its reliance on game mechanics? Speaking at the Living Games World Conference at Georgia Tech in Atlanta last week, Tracy Fullerton, a game design theorist and assistant professor at the University of Southern California Interactive Media Division, plead her case th...

flOw on Dec. 19 for PS3, 2 more titles from USC devs in the works

by James Ransom-Wiley (Dec 1st 2006 10:45PM)

thatgamecompany's expansion of flOw onto PlayStation 3 has finally been targeted for release on December 19*. Coinciding with this announcement is word of a three-game deal signed between Sony and the former USC Interactive Media Division students who founded thatgamecompany. Details about the two a...

Joystiq interview: Jenova Chen

by Ross Miller (Sep 18th 2006 7:30AM)

Xinghan (Jenova) Chen has big dreams. A recent graduate of the University of Southern California's School of Cinema & Television, Chen focused his master's thesis on changing how game designers look at difficulty and redefine the concept of Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment. With two award-winning i...