Well Played 2.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning - OpenLibra

to attend the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology
Center and study game programming. While there he worked on a new
genre of game called an Active-Adventure
(www.activeadventuregame.com
) and also spent a summer working
at Walt Disney Imagineering. He hopes to become a professor
someday and look deeper into the journey the player takes through a
game. After graduation he has focused on social games and has helped
develop many titles for the web and facebook platform. More information
can be found at his website: www.sethsivak.com
.
Francisco Souki
Francisco was born in Caracas, Venezuela and currently works as a
Game Designer in Pittsburgh, PA. He enjoys games of all kinds,
European soccer and media-based, unconventional storytelling. If you
wish to know more about him, Google might be a good starting point.
http://www.franciscosouki.com
Matthew Weise
Matthew studied film production at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
before coming to MIT to study videogames in the Comparative
Media Studies program. After a brief stint in the games industry he returned
to MIT as Lead Game Designer for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT
Game Lab, where he currently works with students and interns to create
research-based games. His writing has appeared in various online and
book publications, and tends to explore practices of film-to-game adaptation,
in cases such as horror cinema, James Bond, and the Alien franchise.
Matt’s weekly writings can be found at his blog outsideyourheaven.blogspot.com
and games he has collaborated on are available at gambit.mit.edu.
Jose P. Zagal
Dr. José P. Zagal is a game designer, scholar, and researcher. He is
Assistant Professor at the College of Computing and Digital Media at
DePaul University where he teaches game design, online communities,
and ethics. His research work explores the development of frameworks
for describing, analyzing, and understanding games from a critical perspective
to help inform the design of better games. He is also interested
in supporting games literacy through the use of collaborative learning
environments. His book on this topic, “Ludoliteracy: Defining, Understanding,
and Supporting Games Education”, was recently published by
ETC Press. Dr. Zagal is on the editorial board of the International Journal
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