Richard Wetzel

Flyer reacing: IMPACT Summer Grants for Students SEEKING MENTORS Help student teams actualize design projects with cultural and social impact. Selected mentors receive a $1,000 stipend. For more information and the application, visit: https://tinyurl.com/2025IMPACTMentor

DePaul University's School of Design seeks professional mentors for the Summer IMPACT Grant Program
More information & application at: tinyurl.com/2025IMPACTMe...
#design #designEducation #designforsocialimpact #designmentorship #applynow

QUILT — The Queer Institute of Life and Triumph A game jam from 2025-05-21 to 2025-06-01 hosted by Land of Auks & trainspotter. Welcome to QUILT, a virtual museum of queer joy! We are two graduate students constructing a virtual museum to showcase ...

Two of my grad students are looking for submissions for their #Queer Institute of Life and Triumph. They are happy for any submissions of #art in any shape or form.
itch.io/jam/quilt

Come join us at DePaul in the game design program! We are looking for a term faculty - which means the contract will initially be for one year with the potential for renewal. Priority deadline is May 12th. #gamedesign #academic #job

apply.interfolio.com/166709

Submit a design problem for our students to work on over the summer!
tinyurl.com/2025ImpactGr...

Travelling back from #fdg2025. Great time in Vienna and Graz with some interesting new connections.

We have a new position for someone with a strong computer science VR background to work on the PRESENCE project. This would be at the Event Lab, Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona.

If you are interested, you must apply through this website:
lnkd.in/d6QYQKYA
#VRcademicSky

VR hurricane storm surge experience could save lives along Georgia’s coast. Here’s how. A first-of-its-kind virtual reality experience is now available to educate coastal residents about the dangers of hurricane storm surge and how to prepare during evacuations.

www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/environ...

Player POV | Blood on the Clocktower - YouTube

Patters does this a lot (and is a great channel for online games in general): youtube.com/playlist?lis...
And you can search YouTube for "player perspective" or "pov" and find plenty more.
They are all online games though, so not sure if that's what you're looking for.

Watched #BeastGames as class-prep (and so my students think I'm cool). $20 million spend on prizes; $20 spend on game design. So many weird design choices.

Mike's new game sounds really cool! Help Demeter find Persephone in this single player TTRPG.

Go while you can!

I would lean towards play first - gives you the ability to refer to the game when discussing ethics.

Durbin has an automated message saying you should leave a message - but the voicemail is switched off.
Duckworth also has no voicemail.

I recently saw this one by @eviljoemcveigh.bsky.social and quite liked it: bsky.app/profile/evil...

Our MFA Game Design students will be showing their thesis games on March 13th from 5-8 in the Jarvis Center in Chicago's Loop. Swing by, celebrate, and play some games! Light refreshments will be served! www.eventbrite.com/e/school-of-...

No Pun Included is not only one of the best board game review channels - they also produce highlights like this video where they look at the "fact" that the funnest part of board games is opening the box. By reading academic papers! And the original author responds in the comments. Great work!

Got into my office despite this.

Tickets for Hawkins go on sale tomorrow, Sunday 1/26, at 5pm Central.

Don't blink or you might miss out. 👀 #larp #immersivetheatre #hawkins

This is the real Gamergate

Other PhD Scholarships Available in Design Engineering Please see below for current funding opportunities in the department:

Want to do a 🎓 PhD in 🎮 games and 📊 data?
I have a 💸 studentship for you:
Unpacking Casual Game Engagement Across Time Scales.

@ Imperial College London w/ Nottingham University & King (of Candy Crush), deadline March 1. Sadly, UK home students only.

To learn more: bit.ly/casual-phd

Pls share!

Tip on planning video games

Here is a collection of stuff I learned over the years about direction and production of games 🧭

These worked for me, hopefully it can inspire or be useful to you.

Thread with #gamedev tips starts here 1/
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Wow! Finally got around to watching #Sense8! Such a great queer and emotional show by the #Wachowskis and #Straczynski. Unfathomable that #Netflix cancelled it. At least we got a movie to conclude it.

Finished season 2 of #StarTrek #Prodigy. Mindnumbing that #Paramount cancelled it! Such a great show and VERY Star Trek! Highly recommend watching!!! Hope #Netflix picks it up for a third season!

Finally got #Balatro. Very fun and well-designed Solitaire Poker Roguelike. Similar game, but instead of cards you have dice to roll: #DiceyDungeons. Has some cool character and enemy designs!

In a board game, climate experts work to save the world, which diplomats at COP29 try in real life While diplomats negotiated at the United Nations climate talks in Azerbaijan, climate experts played a board game where players are supposed to work together to combat global warming

Climate experts at #COP29 playing #Daybreak. One of my favorite #boardgames at the moment - will surely play it again with my students in class. #seriousgames #gameswithapurpose

abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wi...

There are so many great starter packs to help newcomers to find the community. I just created one for HCI + Games, hope this can be helpful to find us also here on Bluesky. Many are missing, so please let me know if you like to be added. go.bsky.app/CTm8Qea

Would love to be added!

PhD in Human Centered Design One of the nation’s largest and most comprehensive programs, DePaul University's College of Computing and Digital Media (CDM) offers undergraduate and graduate programs in a wide and diverse range of ...

Are you interested in doing a PhD in Human-Centered Design (which could be focused on #AR #VR #XR or #SeriousGames)? Come to the virtual info session November 21st!
Program details: www.cdm.depaul.edu/academics/Pa...
Registration for event: grad.depaul.edu/register/?id...