Water Cooler Games served as the web's primary forum for "videogames with an agenda" — coverage of the uses of video games in advertising, politics, education, and other everyday activities, outside the sphere of entertainment.
The site was maintained at watercoolergames.org from 2003-2009, where it was edited by myself and Gonzalo Frasca. It is now archived here in full.
Tomorrow (February 16), the Georgia Institute of Technology graduate program in digital media (in which I teach and research) and the GVU Center host the second annual Living Game Worlds symposium, on "Design Processes and the Future of Expressive Computing."
The event includes keynotes from Will Wright and Dale Herigstad, and features an impressive list of additional speakers and panelists including Mary Flanagan, Bill Gaver, Juan Pablo Gnecco, Matt Hullum, Chris Klaus, Raph Koster, Karen Lennon, Marcus Matthews, Celia Pearce, Jane Prophet, Katie Salen, Rick Sanchez, Carl Schnurr, Johnny L. Wilson, and a bunch of us from Georgia Tech. You can read bios on all the speakers here.
Those of you in Atlanta can try to register, but the event is already overbooked. For others, I've just learned that the symposium will be webcast live tomorrow. The webcast URL will be posted on the conference website when it's available. And you can watch video from last year's event right now.
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