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CCP is hosting a conference on the connection between video games and academics - Technical.ly Philly Also, learn about the history of video games, gaming communities and the psychology involved at Community College of Philadelphia's Nov. 20 event.

Video Gaming & Society Conference at CCP Speakerboard Highlight: Dr. Frank J. Lee, Director, Drexel University’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio "City at Play: The Skyscraper Games Trilogy." 10:20-11:20

About Frank's Talk: After engaging the city in a games of Pong & Tetris played on the Cira Center, a 29-story skyscraper, I presented new games designed by Philadelphia students as a STEAM outreach to get girls and other underrepresented students interested in programming. In my talk, I will discuss how large scale, city wide initiatives and other projects form the basis of my vision for a new type of game and interaction that mixes real world with digital to create city-scale mixed-reality games. I will also briefly talk about the Entrepreneurial Game Studio (EGS), a unique university-based startup incubator at Drexel helping and mentoring student to start their own independent game studios.

About Frank: Dr. Frank J. Lee is Professor of Digital Media at Drexel University with appointments in Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering. Lee received his PhD in Cognitive Psychology in 2000 from Carnegie Mellon University, and his BA with Highest Honors in Cognitive Science in 1994 from UC Berkeley. Lee co-founded Drexel's Game Design Program in 2008, which has been consistently ranked as one of the Top 10 Game Design Programs in the US for the last 10 years. Lee is also the founding director of the Entrepreneurial Game Studio (EGS) at Drexel University in 2013, a unique university-wide initiative to teach students entrepreneurship by helping them to start their own game companies. Students in EGS have created over 10 game companies and have won over 15 national and international awards and recognitions making it one of the most awarded university game labs in the US. Lee’s own past projects have won national and international awards and recognitions and have received extensive media coverage. His installation project, Skyscraper Tetris in 2014, was mentions in over 1500 news stories worldwide and an estimated 2.2 Billion views with a publicity value of over $22M. It was also recognized as a Guinness World Record for the Largest Architectural Videogame Display. He was selected as one of the Smartest People in Philadelphia by Philadelphia Magazine in 2012, Hacker of the Year by Geekadelphia in 2013, and one of the 50 Most Admirable Gaming People by Polygon in 2014.

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Video Gaming & Society Conference at CCP: Jumaani Haskins, Cultural Anthropologist, Arcadia, "Cultural Combos: An Ethnographic Narrative of the Competitive Fighting Game Community" 12:40-1:40

About Jumaani's Talk: An ethnographic research project based on semi-structured interviews within the competitive fighting
game community. This research found that the fighting game community to be more racially diverse than other gaming competitive gaming communities and contains a rich history of cultural practices involving ritual performance, social norms, and standard procedures regardless of international region.

About Jumaani: Jumaani Haskins is a cultural anthropologist with work focusing on gaming culture and game studies. His work focuses primarily in the fighting game genre, in which he has been actively competing since 2012. Through gaming, Haskins has been able to travel not just around the country, but abroad and connect with the FGC and other communities in Tokyo, Japan (Mar. 2015) and Brighton, England (Sep-Dec. 2016). In addition to his research on fighting game culture, Haskins has also written about the use of tropes and monomyth theory in Metal Gear Solid, and the growing potential of video game music as popular, ubiquitous music. In 2018, Haskins received the Johnston Family Award of Excellence in Cross Cultural Research Writing for his undergraduate senior thesis: "Cultural Combos: An Ethnographic Narrative of the Competitive Fighting Game Community." Haskins is a member of Epsilon Kappa chapter of the international honor society Phi Beta Delta and currently serves on the advisory committee for Arcadia Esports. He is an active member of the Black Alumni Association at Arcadia University where he graduated with departmental honors in Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice in 2018.

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