The call for ICIDS2025 Doctoral consortium/@ARDIN - Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives Emerging Scholars Academy is now open. Submit until September 30. icids2025.ardin.online/home-1

This absolutely matches my experience - brilliant results are possible when given a lot of context and constraints. And this is where the opportunity for education lies.

The ICIDS deadline is getting close - write, write, write. This year's edition is December 1-5 in Malta, but the conference is fully hybrid and remote participation is possible. icids2025.ardin.online/cfp-innerpage

Call for Papers - ICIDS 2025

8 June 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS This year’s ICIDS (International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling) will return to Europe. The hosting country is the Mediterranean island of Malta, with a ric...

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It's always nice to be cited and see that my work is used by others. Simultaneously - why, oh why, are they citing the 2010 version of my SPP framework in 2024 when I have spend 14 to develop it further, also in collaboration with scholars such as Christian Roth, Mirjam Eladhari and Anca Serbanescu?

The monthly ARDIN online social is today, also hear about the ARDIN summer school in Malta. www.facebook.com/share/19GfSj...

2025 ARDIN Summer School registration now open 7-11 July, St. Martin's Institute of Higher Education, Malta (after DIGRA conference) 5 days of training for scholars and practitioners Systems Analysis Design methods Generative AI Complexity User Studies IDN training.ardin.online/ardin-summer...

I'm running Deepseek R1 on my MacBook Pro and I'm still flabbergasted how easy it was to install and how well it runs given that I use a pretty small version (9 GB). And yes, the local version does not have censorship of Chinese political topics.

Next ARDIN Social will be in an hour #ARDIN #Interactive_narrative www.facebook.com/events/95436...

Impressions from the 2ND ARDIN EMERGING SCHOLARS ACADEMY, the DC at ICIDS 2024 which I co-chaired with Cláudia Silva #icids2024 We had 14 PhD students and 12 mentors as well as guests. The students originated from 12 countries, including Colombia, Thailand and India. Thanks to all participants!

The stream for ICIDS 2024 is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEaB...

ICIDS Day 02 | "Decolonizing the Future" + Paper Session

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ICIDS 2024 program is out: 4 keynotes, 30 long and short papers, 11 Late Breaking Works, a packed DC and four workshops. icids2024.ardin.online Want to participate, but not a paper author or an accepted artist? Register as a discounted online guest: icids2024.ardin.online/online-guest...

#COSTActionINDCOR The evaluation of our COST action is in and is full of praise. "General Assessment The Action’s outputs and achievements are excellent." I’m grateful to all members - especially my wonderful co-chairs Lissa Holloway-Attaway and Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari – for this success.

I'm overjoyed to share this labor of love! The first issue of the ARDIN Journal of Interactive Narrative (JIN) is published! JIN articles include interactive pieces. Congratulations to the editorial team. Also big thanks to ETC press/Carnegie Mellon University. check it out: journal.ardin.online

The Journal of Interactive Narrative

Advances the understanding, design, and application of interactive narratives. It is a home for research and practical work as interactive scholarship.

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Sad news from a great game studio. I hope they manage to continue in some way

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The folks at DGF are some of the kindest and most talented I know. Having worked with them, I can give the most enthusiastic endorsement as first-rate coworkers. I'm heartbroken that they have to halt production, and hope everyone lands on their feet soon.

New: Google News is boosting AI-generated garbage articles that rip-off other peoples' work. One company even admitted practice to me. Even wilder: Google says it doesn't focus on whether an article was made by AI or a human for News, opening way for more www.404media.co/google-news-...

After a great week of introducing Interactive Digital Narrative to undergrads, it's fitting that a podcast was just published in which Rudolf Inderst and I talk about my IDN book newbooksnetwork.com/understandin...

Podcast | Hartmut Koenitz, "Understanding Interactive Digital…

Subscribe for free. Hartmut Koenitz, "Understanding Interactive Digital Narrative: Immersive Expressions for a Complex Time" (Routledge, 2023)

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The next ARDIN online meetup will happen next Wednesday, November 1. Come and learn what's up with ARDIN, especially the IDN in Education group. Also have your ICIDS2023 questions answered and hear about developments in the COST Action INDCOR www.facebook.com/events/29457...

ARDIN online social

Networking event by ARDIN - Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives on Wednesday, November 1 2023

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At the Joint Conference on Serious Games, looking forward to giving a keynote tomorrow. jcsg2023.scss.tcd.ie

icids2023 keynote speakers are announced: Youichiro Miyake, Square Enix Anastasia Salter, University of Central Florida Mia Consalvo & Andy Phelps (double feature) Concordia University & American University, DC icids2023.ardin.online#keynotes

Icids 2023 program is now out: icids2023.ardin.online/program

Looking forward to my talk tomorrow at the University of Miami School Of Communication

PSA: call for workshop at ICIDS 2023 is still open. We are looking for half-day proposals icids2023.ardin.online/call-for-wor...

PSA: Call for art works and fir the doctoral consortium at ICIDS 2023 are still open. There is funding through ARDIN for accepted dc participants to come to Kobe/Japan. icids2023.ardin.online

It’s a great day when one of your favorite bands gives a free outdoor concert.

I like @caseyod.bsky.social‘s idea to start with a mushroom. Here is mine. And yes, it was tasty