Published: June 20, 2022
Two hands  playing on tinycade cardboard consoles

Researchers from ATLAS Institute鈥檚 ACME Lab presented one pictorial and two graduate student symposium papers at the 14th ACM Creativity & Cognition (C&C), which took place听June 20-23 in Venice, Italy. The theme of this year's conference was "Creativity, Craft and Design."

Pictorial

ACME Lab

authored by听Peter Gyory, (ATLAS PhD student);听Perry Owens, (Creative Industries master鈥檚 student);听Matthew Bethancourt,听(teaching associate professor and director of the Whaaat?! Lab;)听Amy Banic, (visiting associate professor, ATLAS/computer science;)听听Clement Zheng, (ATLAS post-doctoral research associate, PhD,听Technology, Media & Society 鈥20) and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do, (faculty, ATLAS/computer science).

Tinycade听is a platform designed to help game designers build their own mini arcade games by hand. With this platform, one can craft functioning game controllers out of everyday materials such as cardboard and toothpicks.听 In this pictorial, the authors discuss the functionality of Tinycade and showcase three games that demonstrate the variety of controls possible with this platform.

Publication

Peter Gyory,听Perry Y Owens,听Matthew Bethancourt,听Amy Banic,听Clement Zheng,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2022.听鈥淏uild Your Own Arcade Machine with Tinycade,鈥 In听14th ACM conference on听, (June 20-23, 2022鈥擵enice, Italy).