Winter is coming!

A sunny day at the University of Washington Seattle campus, silhouette of George Washington statue. Photo by Katherine B. Turner

Winter is coming to CGS, and with it a few small updates:

Come see us and many other great CSE groups at Computing Open House on Saturday, December 5th to kick off Computer Science Education Week.

Next, we’re pleased to announce Dragon Architect has a new website!

Finally, our time as part of the Verigames family may be coming to a close, but that doesn’t mean the fun has to stop for Paradox  fans. We are pleased to announce you can continue to play Paradox straight from the Center for Game Science website. Paradox (and Flow Jam) wouldn’t have been possible without the dedicated efforts of many people over the years and we want to say thank you for playing along with us.



July News from CGS

cgs-verticalIt has been a busy summer here at the Center for Game Science. Let’s take a look at some of our latest happenings!

First of all, we’re pleased to note that the Seattle Public Library system’s Summer of Learning is going well. All of our BlockStudio and Dragon Architect workshops have been filled, and with healthy waiting lists. If you want to take a peek at a number of the creations being made, head on over to our special Summer Learning page and check out the galleries – we just added Dragon Architect‘s gallery today!

Speaking of the Summer of Learning, did you know that Nanocrafter is also a part of the teen offerings this year? Best of all, the Seattle Public Library is offering all of these resources for free! There’s still some summer left to take advantage of the fun, and we encourage anyone local to the library system to do so.

The new Verigames newsletter is out today, featuring a bunch of community efforts, a spotlight on the new BBC article that came out recently, and a link to the archive of our Paradox chat. To follow all the Paradox news, feel free to join our Twitter and Facebook pages! Made by the same team that worked on Flow Jam, Paradox is a fresh approach to the now familiar problem of software verification, so if that’s your thing, feel free to check it out.

Finally, in Foldit news, we’re gearing up to bring community-driven broadcasting through Twitch in the near future, so we can share the vast range of protein folding knowledge the community has gained over the years with a much larger audience than ever before. Our new effort – dubbed “FolditTV” will be releasing it’s first schedule very soon. Our Marburg efforts are also continuing this summer with new puzzles and discussion, and you can follow along (and join in) via the Foldit site, or our social media outlets.