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Breaking Boundaries with Video Games 2025 In-Person

Breaking Boundaries with Video Games is an annual showcase of undergraduate research, writing, design, and multimodal scholarship involving video games at the University of Rochester. Meet the growing community of game designers and scholars at the UR as they discuss their work. 
 
Student designed games, videos, slide shows, infographics, posters, poems, or art that explores a research question involving games are accepted.  Call for submissions open through April 15th.
 
All are welcome. Arcade, demos, and conversation from 12-4pm. Pizza and snacks provided. Sponsored by the Digital Media Studies Program, hosted by River Campus Libraries. Contact Profs Textor or Loporcaro for more information.
 
 
Josh Stead-Dorval class of 2025 presents:
The Final Frontier of Storytelling: A Live, Interactive Let's Play!
Breaking Boundaries with Video Games 2025
April 25, 2 PM Lam Sq near Q&i in Rush Rhees
 
Description -- For as revolutionary as the written word and moving pictures have been in our ability to communicate and tell stories, they are not the final frontier of storytelling. Video games present an opportunity to grow our artistic and narrative abilities beyond passive means, by bringing the audience into the story itself. To highlight some of the ways video games are breaking boundaries in storytelling, we'll play The Stanley Parable, a single player, indie, narrative-driven game about an office worker and his Narrator. Together, we'll discuss how video games are different storytellers, how those stories connect with audiences, and if, as Jane McGonigal says, "video games can make a better world".
Date:
Friday, April 25, 2025
Time:
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Audience:
  Undergraduate students  
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Arjay Romanowski