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More Than Just A Game | Frankfurt; Post # 2
On October 21 I posted about “More Than Just a Game/Frankfurt which I had just returned from. Within that post were the slides I presented on “Streaming (video-game) boxes” and their legal trajectories. Attached above is a summary from the law firm of Beiten Burkhardt of the event, the topics presented, and some interesting real […]
Discussion Outline: October 31
Group: Selena Chen, Jonah Brook, Scott MacDonald, Bas Van Schaik Discussion Topic: Esport: Gaining Traction Hello everyone! This week’s topic will be esports, its growth, governance, labour, and international components. Esports: Emulating the Traditional “Big Sports” (Scott) Consideration of what is sports? Highly skilled nerds or legitimate athletes? Case study: Overwatch League How esports has […]
Talk on “Streaming Boxes” at More Than Just A Game | Frankfurt – October 19, 2018
Was very privileged to be invited to Frankfurt am Main, Germany to speak at the Frankfurt Edition of More Than Just A Game. Special thanks Dr. Andreas Lober and the law firm of Beiten Burkhardt for all of their considerable hospitality. It was great event. Here is the Program, which may be a useful reference […]
Talk at VGBA North; October 16, 2018
Was honoured to speak at the Video Game Bar Association event at the Centre for Digital Media on Tuesday October 16, 2018 on the subject of A.I. & Video-Games. My slides can be found below… Jon
Discussion topic – 10th October 2018
Are you in control of your mind? Our discussion will look at equipping you with a variety of information on the topic of video games and addiction, so that you can form an educated opinion on this recently fired up debate. Outline 1. Gaming disorder and addiction WHO definition How would it get diagnosed? 2. […]
Secret Chinese Clocks
Following up on last weeks discussion regarding openness of technology, where I mentioned that the first ever mechanical time keeping device was built for a Chinese emperor but was kept secret, arguably slowing down human progress for hundreds of years until the mechanical clock was reinvented in Europe in the 14th century, this came in […]
Public Talk for the Emerging Media Lab Lecture Series on Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Just in case anyone is interested I’m giving a talk at 4 PM on Tuesday September 25, 2018 in Room 205 of the West Mall Swing Space. Everyone is welcome….See the above poster for more details…. Jon
Website tech help @ end of this Wednesday’s class
Richard Tape of UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning & Technology will be joining us tomorrow tomorrow after class at 12:15 PM in B101 to help anyone who has had technical challenges or doubts about getting onto the course website, or anything related. Richard has been a pivotal part of improving the website and making it […]
Class 2 Guest Speaker: Ian Verchere
IMHO Ian Verchere is the most influential active creator of games in B.C. He has been a force to reckon with for decades, and if we are lucky, will be for decades to come. He has been a “must-see” part of this course for many years. His talks are always deeply and passionately rooted in […]
The first video-game? Spacewar! No it wasn’t.
During my first talk last week I mentioned the game “Spacewar!” as the first video-game, said it was invented in the late 1950’s at Stanford. I also said it was multiplayer. Of those facts, I got two right. The game itself was called “Spacewar!” and it was multiplayer (two person). But it wasn’t invented in […]