Drexel Research on Play ("RePlay") is a collaborative effort between the Digital Media program (in the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design) and the Computer Science department (in the College of Engineering). See the About page for contact information.

 

September 12, 2008: Our Digital Media senior group, Voxel6, has had their game, Lazy Brains, featured in several stories, including the LA Times and Wired Magazine. Congrats to team members Jordan Santell, James Borden, Aaron Bohenick, Zachary Brooks, Keneth Oum and BioMed Engineering Ph.D. student Hasan Ayaz.

June 30th, 2008: Watch the CBS 3 11PM news on Wednesday, July 2nd for a story about our Lazy Brains game, and the 6:30 or 7:00AM CBS 3 Morning news on Thursday, July 3rd for a story on our Inversion and Planet Diggum games. See the stories online here: Lazy Brains story and video, and Planet Diggum and Inversion story and video.

May 26th, 2008: The Philadelphia Inquirer ran a Memorial Day front-page story on the RePlay Lab. This story is available at the philly.com site.

Dr. Paul Diefenbach, Professor in the Digital Media Program and Co-Director of Drexel's RePlay Lab on Computer Gaming will present a talk, "Building Planet Diggum: A Case Study of Multi-Discipline, Multi-Touch Gaming Collaboration." This talk discusses the inter-disciplinary nature of game development and its role in academia by focusing on the development of Planet Diggum, a multi-touch, multi-user game which uses finger and hand gestures to create a kiosk where users can interact with the system without need of training. With the rise of video game systems like the Wii, gestures are becoming more prevalent within gaming. This research bridges the disconnect between the user and the physical screen image with multi-point touch screens. This talk is scheduled Wednesday, August 13th at Wednesday 10:30-12:15 in room 406 AB. Digital Media Graduate student Will Muto who is advised by and co-authored with Professor Diefenbach, will present their poster, "Applications of Multi-Touch Gaming Technology to Middle-School Education" based on Will's Master's thesis work. Working with Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering members, Will has created a platform where gaming technology and internet-enabled multi-touch displays can create effective learning tools for middle school children. The purpose is to encourage collaboration and learning through play.

The Digital Media Senior Show is set to take place on Saturday, June 7th. It starts at 1:30pm and ends around 6:30pm. The shows will highlight all of the Graduating Senior's projects they have worked on over the last two terms (20 weeks). One of the groups presenting will be Lazy Brains, as featured on the RePlay Lab website! If you can, please try and make it out to show your support for them and all of the other groups that day. The details of the event, as taken from the exact listing on the AWCOMAD website, can be viewed below:

• Saturday, June 7, 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
• Nesbitt Hall (33rd & Market St.)
• Info: 215-895-2408

As you can see, the RePlay website has been completely redone. This is just the beginning, you can expect loads more content on the most current games and projects coming out of Drexel University's RePlay lab. Also keep your eyes opened because the RePlay Lab Lounge is set to open up sometime this Summer term.

RePlay hosts a guest speaker series. Past presentations include:

• Kudo Tsunoda - GM Electronic Arts (EA Games) Chicago. Executive producer of Fight Night series.
• Tom Fulp - Founder of Newgrounds.com and creator of Alien Hominid
• Don Bain - GM of The Electric Sheep Company. Leading content provider for SecondLife, MTV, and more.

Expect more guest speakers as time goes on!