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ACM C&C'22: Build Your Own Arcade Machine with Tinycade

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

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Pictorial

ACME Lab

Ìýauthored byÌýPeter Gyory, (ATLAS PhD student);ÌýPerry Owens, (Creative Industries master’s student);ÌýMatthew Bethancourt,Ìý(teaching associate professor and director of the Whaaat?! Lab;)ÌýAmy Banic, (visiting associate professor, ATLAS/computer science;)ÌýÌýClement Zheng, (ATLAS post-doctoral research associate, PhD,ÌýTechnology, Media & Society ‘20) andÌýEllen Yi-Luen Do, (faculty, ATLAS/computer science).

TinycadeÌýis 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.Ìý In this pictorial, the authors discuss the functionality of Tinycade and showcase three games that demonstrate the variety of controls possible with this platform.

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Publication

Peter Gyory,ÌýPerry Y Owens,ÌýMatthew Bethancourt,ÌýAmy Banic,ÌýClement Zheng,ÌýEllen Yi-Luen Do. 2022.Ìý“Build Your Own Arcade Machine with Tinycade,â€� InÌý14th ACM conference onÌý, (June 20-23, 2022—Venice, Italy).

Two hands  playing on tinycade cardboard consoles