We’re thrilled to welcome Carleton College alumna Jess Rosenblatt (Class of ’04) back to campus next week. After graduating with a degree in History, she moved into the Experience Design and Game Design industries and is gracious enough to share her experiences and her expertise with the Carleton community and the Witness Team. On Tuesday, January 16th 2018 from 12:00-1:00…
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Professor Austin Mason, Lydia Symchych (’18), and the Witness project are back from Orlando, Florida! We set up in the computer lab in UCF’s Visual Arts building: two computers running the 0.3 Alpha build and one playing a presentation explaining the concept and showing some of the work that happened under the hood. The poster from this year’s…
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This week, Professor Austin Mason and Lydia Symchych are going to Orlando, Florida to attend the HASTAC 2017: The Possible Worlds of Digital Humanities conference. Witness to the Massacre will be set up on a laptop where conference-goers can play the game demo. Another laptop next to it will play a looping presentation that gives a behind-the-scenes…
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October 20, 2017 was Carleton College’s poster session for summer research. It’s an event open to the public where students present the research they did over the summer and get to see what their peers researched. I presented my work reading primary sources and writing content for Witness to the Revolution. As Witness moves forward, we now have content…
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We held a project demo and play test event at the end of the first term of this project. View the results in the video below!
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Final Reflections The showcase and presentations that followed went well considering our Professor was unable to join us due to illness, but was available to chat via Slack for anyone who had questions or feedback about our project. I was the last person to present, though admittedly I had cut it super short to give…
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We are having a public demo of our project this Saturday, March 11th in the Weitz Center for Creativity. There will be free food and a talk by a curator at the Old State House Museum. Come check it out!
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An update from the Website and PR (Public Relations) Team! First and foremost, I have been experiencing some issues with images that are uploaded to WordPress and using them for a slideshow for the main page. Checking online forums and other blogs have led me to conclude that the images either must be the same…
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