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ETC Spinoff company Etcetera Edutainment changes name to Simcoach Games

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 20, 2014 PITTSBURGH, PA – Etcetera Edutainment, Inc., a leader in delivering video game-based training simulations, game-based learning and “serious games” to organizations for nearly ten years, has announced that the company is now doing business under the name Simcoach Games. Simcoach®, with reference to “simulation” learning, stands for “Simple, Interactive,… Read more »

Pillow Castle on CMU’s home page

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Carnegie Mellon University’s home page features a story about ETC project team Pillow Castle. For a look at the team’s project this semester, visit the team’s website. Congratulations to the project team: Albert Shih, Xiao Li, Allen Tingley, Zhengyo Wang, and Yuxi Zhang

The ETC at CHI PLAY

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This weekend’s ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY) conference in Toronto will feature both student project work and faculty research. The spring 2014 project team, Transcendence, with team members Etaba Assigana (15), Eric Chang (14), Seungsuk Cho (15), Vivek Kotecha (15), Bing Liu (15), Hannah Turner (15), and Yan Zhang… Read more »

Brenda Bakker Harger at the VIEW Conference

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This week Associate Teaching Professor Brenda Bakker Harger will be in Turin, Italy at the VIEW Conference.   Her workshop is titled: Improvisational Acting: The special sauce paradigm. The improvisational acting paradigm is useful far beyond the stage: building teams that trust one another, problem solving in real time, becoming aware of and interpreting behavior, and… Read more »

ETC at IndieCade

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At this year’s IndieCade, International Festival of Independent Games, the ETC will be represented by student games, faculty and alum.  ETC Director Drew Davidson is a Well-Played Curator for the games being played at this year’s festival and ETC alum Jeremy Gibson (07) is a Co-Chair of IndieXchange.  Jeremy will be giving a talk on… Read more »

Open faculty position

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Faculty Position in 3D Art in Games (and Film) Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University The Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at Carnegie Mellon University invites 3D artist professionals to apply for a full-time, teaching track position at the ETC. While preferred, an advanced degree is not required for candidates with extensive professional experience in 3D… Read more »

Pittsburgh, Women, Games and Creative Community

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With the recent disheartening online discourse around women in games, which only underscores the historical issue this has been for the game industry as well as creative industries in general, Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center continues our strong commitment to environments where everyone who makes, enjoys and critiques games, and other creative media, deserves an… Read more »

Drew Davidson at Purdue University

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ETC Director Drew Davidson was invited to Purdue University by their Graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition to give a talk as part of their bi-annual David Hutton Interdisciplinary Lecture Series.  Drew was invited  to honor the work he has done to advance the field of game studies through ETC Press and Well Played. His… Read more »

The ETC at Meaningful Play

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ETC students Kiran George, Xiao Li, Yuxi Zhang along with ETC alum Albert Shish (14), Yue Zhu (14) and Yimang Lin (14) and the game they made for the fall 2013 project Epiphany has been accepted for presentation at Meaningful Play 2014. ETC Distinguished Professor of the Practice, Jesse Schell will also be giving a… Read more »

ETC at the White House Educational Game Jam

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Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) was a big part of the White House Educational Game Jam this past weekend. The Jam was sponsored by the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Department of Education, and kicked off early in the morning on September 6, 2014 in the creative offices of Learning… Read more »

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