Douglas Wilson

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Games

2011-Present: Game Designer & Partner, Die Gute Fabrik
2009-2011: Co-Founder, Copenhagen Game Collective

Selected projects:

• In Progress: Johann Sebastian Joust
• In Progress: Mutazione
• In Progress: Beacons of Hope
• In Progress: Dog The Wag
• In Progress: Pillow Time! (link coming soon)
• In Progress: Monkey See, Monkey Mime

• 2010-2011: Brutally Unfair Tactics Totally OK Now (a.k.a. B.U.T.T.O.N.)
• 2009: Fuck You, It's Art!
• 2009: Train Mafia
• 2009: 5 Minute MMORPG
• 2008: Dark Room Sex Game
• 2007: Euclidean Crisis

Installations

Selected projects:

• 2011: Mega-GIRP
• 2011: Robo-QWOP
• 2005: Music Walk (link coming soon)

Research

Research interests: folk games, physical games, gestural games, broken games, abusive game design, design practice, Arendtian action

Selected Publications:

• [pdf] Wilson, D. (2012). Designing for the Pleasures of Disputation -or- How to make friends by trying to kick them! PhD Dissertation, IT University of Copenhagen.

• [html] Wilson, D. (2011). Brutally Unfair Tactics Totally OK Now: On Self-Effacing Games and Unachievements. Game Studies, Vol. 11 (1).
• [abstract] Wilson, D. (2012). Disentangling Personal Style from Artistic "Expression": Hokra, Nidhogg, Pole Riders, and the Indie Arcade.

• [pdf] Wilson, D. & Sicart, M. (2010). Now It's Personal: On Abusive Game Design. FuturePlay 2010. Vancouver, Canada. May, 2010.
• [chapter] Wilson, D. (2008). Look Before You Warp. In Ed. Luke Cuddy, The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy: I Link Therefore I Am. Open Court.

Education

• 2009-2012: PhD, Center For Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen
  • Advisers: T.L. Taylor, Miguel Sicart

• 2007-2008: Fulbright Scholar, Center For Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen

• 2005-2007: MS, Computer Science, Stanford University
• 2001-2007: BA, Interdisciplinary Humanities Honors Program, Stanford University
  • Adviser: Henry Lowood
  • Degree "with distinction" and Phi Beta Kappa

Teaching

IT University of Copenhagen:

• 2009: Co-Instructor, Introduction to Computer Game Design
• 2009: Co-Instructor, Design for Board/Card Games

Stanford University:

• 2006-2007: Head Teaching Assistant, CS106A: Programming Methodology
• 2005-2007: Head Teaching Assistant, CS105: Introduction to Computers
  
• 2005: Teaching Assistant, STS145: The History of Computer Game Design
• 2003-2005: Section Leader, CS106 Introductory Computer Science series

Miscellaneous

Writings:

• 2008: Grand Pianola Game Music, GameSetWatch
• 2008: What Super Mario Galaxy's Rosalina Shows Us About Storytelling, GameSetWatch

Lectures:

• 2012: Folk Games, Festivity and Subversive Game Design, GDC 2012
• 2012: Experimental Gameplay Sessions, GDC 2012
• 2011: Intentionally Broken Game Design and the Art of "Deputizing" Players, GDC Europe 2011
• 2010: Broken Games, Medialab Prado

Interviews:

• 2012: Cat's Away Chronicles V, Electron Dance
• 2012: A Complicated Relationship, Electron Dance
• 2011: Putting these stupid controllers back in their place, The Happy Medium
• 2011: GDC Europe Speaker Spotlight: B.U.T.T.O.N.'s Douglas Wilson On Breaking The Rules, Gamasutra
• 2011: Road To The IGF: We're Very Uncomfortable With The Copenhagen Game Collective, Gamasutra

Media Mentions:

• 2012: Video Games Level-Up: 50 Years of Stanford Ingenuity, Stanford Magazine
• 2012: Folk Lore: How Johann Sebastian Joust is defining a new gaming genre, Polygon
• 2012: Four Move controllers, one laptop, countless bruises: we play Johann Sebastian Joust, Penny Arcade Report

Curation:

• 2011: F%!K THE SCREEN, Babycastles
• 2011: Nordic Game Indie Night 2011, Nordic Game Conference 2011
• 2011: Kill Screen vs Scandinavia, GDC 2011
• 2010: Abusive Games Julefrokost, Babycastles
• 2010: Nordic Game Indie Night 2010, Nordic Game Conference 2010

Code:

• Ongoing: UniMove

Videos:

• 2003: Crafting the Virtual World
• 2003: The Art of Interactive Storytelling

Radio:

• 2004-2007: Captain Dee, KZSU Stanford 90.1 FM

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