Editorial by Timothy Loew, executive director of Mass DiGi, encouraging Massachusetts to tap the state's game workforce potential and avoid mistakes of Rhode Island in financing 38 Studios
Includes overview of Mass DiGi's activities (outreach. marketing, business development,) education and research, events, advocacy and fundraising, and next fiscal year preview
Discloses some striking findings from Mass DiGi's survey of Massachusetts game companies last summer, specifically that employment in the industry increased 78% over a three year period and that "nearly forty percent" of survey respondents indicated an intention to increase employment.
"As the third annual video gaming PAX East expo wrapped up its final day at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center yesterday, the president of its producer, Penny Arcade, said the event "has taken over the city like never before."
"One Shrewsbury company is bringing online, tech. and video game-related jobs to the area. Elevation Exhibits & Events, an exhibit design and event-planning firm, announced a new client, Rooster Teeth. The newly added user is one of the fastest-growing online communities in the comic book, video, film and gaming industry."
"Beacon Hill Chat is a program with interesting people talking about the interesting things going on in Central Massachusetts. Senator Chandler's guest is Timothy Loew, the Executive Director of Massachusetts Digital Games Institute (Mass DiGi)on the Becker College campus."
Links to press release, summary results and press coverage of Mass DiGi's survey of Massachusetts game companies documenting exceptional industry growth
Discusses Turtle Boy Games, a venture to help game design students enter the game industry, in the context of the Mass Digi and statewide efforts to increase collaboration between game companies and academia to create industry and job growth.
"Kellian Adams worked at SCVNGR Inc. for three years in the museum department before striking out on her own in January 2012 to found Green Door Labs Inc. in Cambridge to create location-based educational games. So it's no wonder that her first collaboration was with one of the country's foremost museums - the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York."
Relativity in a rock field: A study of physics learning with a computer game David Carr and Terry BossomaierCharles Sturt University These results appear to run counter to people's intuitive understanding, and lead to such unexpected effects as length contraction, time dilation and mass dilation (some background is provided in the following Literature review section).