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Melanie McBride is a researcher at Ryerson University’s Experiential Design and Gaming Environments (EDGE) lab. See her About page for more information.
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Selected readings: 03-22-09

By Melanie, on March 22nd, 2009

[video] John Seely Brown: Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge Production

“I am what I create” says John Seely Brown addressing the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching – Stanford.

[publishing] Giving It Away | Cory Doctorow

I’ve been giving away my books ever since my first novel came [...]

Selected readings: 03-20-2009

By Melanie, on March 20th, 2009

Young People and Emerging Digital Services: An Exploratory Survey on Motivations, Perceptions and Acceptance of Risks

young people’s perception of the risks that the new eID technologies may pose and b) young people’s acceptance levels of these risks, and their general motivation and intent regarding the use of these new technologies

Heading to Web Weekend Vancouver

By Melanie, on February 6th, 2009

Excited to be heading off to Vancouver as a speaker at Magazines Canada’s Web Weekend series for Canadian magazine professionals. This is my second year presenting in the series.

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Shadow of the Colossi: all boss, all the time

By Melanie, on February 10th, 2006

If you’re like me and you love exploring richly textured environments, you must check out Shadow of the Colossus – wikipedia. My partner and I started attacking the Colossi at Christmas and I’ve got a few to go. You can get a sense of the look and feel from the video above.

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“I feel stronger now!”: Gaming vs. real life activity

By Melanie, on April 26th, 2005

Best. Run. Evar!

Worlds collide in the most interesting ways …

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Let’s roll! The joy of Katamari Damacy!

By Melanie, on April 2nd, 2005

I must roll a bigger Katamari for the King of All Cosmos (even though it’s his fault that all the stars have disappeared. How Freudian). My heart’s desire is to make enough beautiful and majestic Katamaris to fill the sky back up with stars so I can  make The King (and the modular Japanese [...]

Come fly with me

By Melanie, on March 31st, 2005

Ever envy the birds and their graceful giss? Join them with flyguy! click anywhere on the image below – and make sure your speakers are turned on, the music is lovely:

I absolutely love Flyguy! It’s so playful, so inspired, so dharma! A truly brilliant use of flash animation that is both mindfully [...]

Your media, my media, ourmedia

By Melanie, on March 24th, 2005

“Create. Share. Get noticed. That’s what Ourmedia is about.

Ourmedia is a global community and learning center where you can gain visibility for your works of personal media. We’ll host your media forever for free.

Video blogs, photo albums, home movies, podcasting, digital art, documentary journalism, home-brew [...]

PS2 and the pleasure principle

By Melanie, on November 6th, 2004

“The orb of the undead is filling the streets with zombies,” says my boyfriend, from the couch, just moments ago. He is playing Baldur’s Gate on the new PS2 (our early xmas gift from dad). This is music to my ears after the shame of this historic past week.

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