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We had a great time hosting Grade 9 students from Trafalgar Castle School yesterday in our Gaming and Virtual Reality Lab! 🎮 Students had a chance to explore our motion-capture studio and state-of-the-art game development workstations with guidance from Ontario Tech University Faculty of Business and Information Technology (FBIT) professors and students. Learn more about how we are enhancing student success in STEM/STEAM with Trafalgar Castle School at https://lnkd.in/gBHXbPxU.

Join me in person or on the livestream this Thursday for my talk on evolving how you think about textures, UVs, and vert color as data! Learn how you can use them for efficient procedural animation via shaders in Unreal Engine. Jen Huffa and Leonardo Georg have fantastic content as well that you’ll want to see! #shaders #Unreal

CBE students dive into the world of experimental games, where fun intertwines with valuable insights. They discover the surprising dynamics of human behavior in economic settings, unlocking a treasure trove of knowledge in a playful, engaging manner. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eNUqqsVD

It's Friday, so we are kicking back and getting the intel on what games the team are playing and want to play. 🎮 I asked Fiona what she enjoys playing and what should be on our list and this is how the chat went. 🗒️ ✍️ In short, dive back into Sims 4 and invest in No Rest for the Wicked. 👀 ✅ #QandA #KnowTheTeam #GamesIndustry #TeamElevenEleven

🔑 Unlocking the secret to success as a young research scholar... Did that catch your attention? Hopefully yes, I am trying really hard to write a LinkedIn-style post. Months ago, I was named one of twenty-five Laidlaw Foundation Scholars at The University of Hong Kong. As part of this prestigious program, each scholar embarks on a 6-week research project in their first summer, followed by a Leadership in Action (LiA) experience in their second. This summer, I delved into the world of research at the University of Leeds. Leading the project "Reading Through Gaming in Primary School," we aimed to identify boardgame features that could predict its reading difficulty. Over the course of 6 weeks, I learned to play numerous board games, visited a local primary school in the UK to teach the students how to play, recorded their reading performances, and meticulously analyzed the data. By summer's end, our findings revealed a strong positive correlation between participants' reading levels and their reading accuracy during gameplay in 4 out of 7 games. These promising results pave the way for further exploration. We hope to continue our work by i) collecting more data from a larger population and ii) running a regression model to establish a scale when the sample size is sufficient. A heartfelt thank you to our dedicated supervisors, Peter Hart, Ph.D. and Paula Clarke, as well as my exceptional teammates, Helen Henwood and Fatima Malik. I am proud to say that I have become a better version of myself. Perhaps not smarter, but more resilient, open-minded and independent. And of course, more experienced in stair-climbing (our office was situated at the top level of the building and the stairs were terrible to climb). 🌟 #laidlawscholar #researchfindings #boardgames #readinglevel

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Heading to the Serious Play Conference on 8/12? Join the G4C Learn team with Leah Hirsch and Brendon Trombley at 4:30 PM in room IB 335 for the hands-on workshop "Designing Games for Social Impact." Dive into the G4C game design curricula, tools, and strategies, and explore how to use the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework for creating impactful games. 🎮 📅 View the schedule: https://buff.ly/3M14FPQ

Going to #GDC next week? Don’t miss these 3 amazing talks from Frostbite engineers: 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗽: 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗙𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗔 𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗦 𝗙𝗖 𝟮𝟰 (Robin Taillandier) Dig into the development of Warp, a new GPU compute shader-based cloth simulator used to simulate football jerseys and shorts in FC 24. 𝗙𝗣𝟭𝟲 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗲 (Alexis Griffin-Lira) Learn how Frostbite implemented multi-platform 16 bit type (FP16) support for shaders to increase shader performance on mobile and other platforms. 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗥𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 & 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 (𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗱) (Jason Bright) How do you transition to new graphics technology (e.g. DX12, Vulkan, Metal) and expand to new platforms without disrupting active development? Learn about Frostbite’s staged approach to generational technological change. #Frostbite #GameDev #GDC2024 #Engineering

The Call of Duty: Black Ops 6Hit List event is one of the first major in-game events of the game's cycle, bringing exciting new rewards and challenges for players to unlock. Here’s everything you need to know about the event, including how to participate, what rewards are available, and more. https://lnkd.in/ggG53HVu

Here are gaming dynamics, that when we apply to life, answer many questions: 1st) Finding requirements. 2nd) Fulfilling requisites. 3rd) Finishing conquests. 4th) Winning pecking order. 5th) Mastering the techniques.