Hunicke journey producer Robin Boston Festival indie game talk

By Mike Suszek 5/18/2013 15:00.

Boston Festival indie games announced keynote speaker Robin Hunicke and original executive producer journey Hunicke talk will mean finding the game "how to create a game for new feelings, according to the Festival website examine the daily focus developer introspection and their life experience".

3/2012 At the end of the tiny specks from thatgamecompany programmer Martin Middleton before founding the indie Studio Funomena 9/2012 Hunicke left thatgamecompany

Indie Boston Festival will take place 9/14 game for the second year of its existence. To improve its planners, event, currently Kickstarter funding raising $ 2, 414 is shy on the 11-day fundraising campaign goal left and $ 15000. $ 25 Or more of these ( aside from warm, feeling charitable ) PC bundle , includes dinosaur home go incentive Fieldrunners for the promise. Announced the Boston Festival indie games keynote speaker Robin Hunicke
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5/14/2013--- Cambridge, MA - announced 9/14 (SAT) appointments are scheduled to appear at this year's Festival as a keynote speaker games Boston festivals MIT game lab and Boston indie, indie game designer and producer Robin Hunicke MIT campus. BostonFIG is currently the last Kickstarter fundraising campaign, in two weeks: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bostonfig/boston-festival-of-indie-games-2013.

Hunicke often downloadable game award-winning journey Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN) known as the Executive producer. Boston Festival indie "meant finding a game" that will focus on how to create a game for title game for her presentation developers examine the everyday life of introspection and their experience new feelings.

Hunicke ran a small indie teams approximately one dozen game developers as a traveling executive producer. Game players is breathtaking from the desert Summit series take landscapes. Together or alone, adventures, they cross paths with on other players along the way. Experience is showing the high levels of Poland provide a relatively small game development team hit the emotional qualities that uniquely game world. Travel achieved worldwide acclaim and market success as well as to protect from a respected institution, including countless awards and nominations for game design, online innovation and artistic execution BAFTA and Grammy Award.

Independent game Studio recently founded the Funomena Hunicke, artists, computer training scientists. Therein, along with fellow journey developers Martin Middleton, she is to work in the game for the benefit of society and an experimental game project team building. Early works family-friendly franchise MySims and unique power game to rally the people of Robin's interest began in Spielberg's Boom Blox for the Nintendo Wii.

Hunicke offers "my Boston Festival indie games give the opportunity to expand the understanding of what game can we speak at national and international events. Take your thoughts and ideals form and also is a great opportunity to talk about tomorrow's indie developers. Greatest strengths as a community is sharing dialog media and ideas of the future will be our decision. Is it is incredible how to build sustainable diverse creative community inspiring an important conversation piece we interested in! "

According to Rick Eberhardt, BostonFIG producer and programming co-chair "is part we development Boston Festival indie game development is very collaborative and creative and intensely both, focusing these two different worlds, effective teamwork and focus on successfully, especially India is best creative inspiration can have basic game. Robin experience is as a game designer, producer, model encourages indie game developer arrives at the highest height when creating their own game because of this. Unbelievable she has come to Boston to talk with indie game lovers in our community we are excited.

Will be held at the Stratton Student Center and the Johnson Athletic Center at MIT campus 9/14/2013 Saturday Boston Festival and indie games. Public celebrations in independent game development, a variety of media and genres, Boston Festival indie games are open free. An informal and inclusive environment, Festival participants join the video games, tabletop games and ( LARP live action role playing game play plus film screenings and keynote lectures. Attend and receive regular updates on the Festival to register, visit www.BostonFIG.com.

About the Boston Festival indie game's (www.bostonfig.com).
Boston Festival indie games focusing on independent New England and neighboring regions is a celebration of the game development. We aim to showcase independent games developer offered to encourage the participants support the Boston Festival indie games, share and interact with games in a variety of media, including video games, location-based games, tabletop games, free public events efforts. Focuses on creating the intersection of interests between independent academic Boston location-based game production group, Boston Festival indie games community games, produced under the auspices of the nonprofit BeEpic in.

About MIT game lab's (http://gamelab.mit.edu).
Bring teaching academics, creators and technicians together MIT game Institute research and develop the new approaches to game design and construction. Top ten Princeton Review to study game design in North America holds MIT game ranked MIT game lab research, design and development of leadership role as a school. By creating a new app breakthrough games, interactive online courses and real world challenges MIT game research goals to educate and serve the people.

Boston India about (www.bostonindies.com).
Boston India is a community of dedicated independent game developer in Massachusetts and the surrounding area. Boston Boston indie movies independent of game developer community awareness to grow up meet monthly and to promote other related community events for developers create independent relationship between big business and large budget games, we recommend you get important feedback works in games development progress and provide a safe environment as critical information sharing among local independent developer brain trust.

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Boston Globe opinion piece on decision aids for dying patients on end-of-life care options

Angelo Volandes, MD, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, wrote an opinion piece published in the Boston Globe today.  He tells the story of a patient dying of cancer, with whom he brought up the topic of end-of-life care options:

“For the next hour I introduced a vocabulary as foreign to her as spondee and trochee were to me. Life-prolonging treatment and CPR, ventilators and intubation, DNR and DNI — terms that she would need to learn quickly. Unfortunately, I was trying to teach her a new lexicon in the midst of the haze of nausea and hospitalization.

Dazed and confused, they looked at me blankly. Words often fail us in medicine. How could I explain these abstract ideas and treatments? Most patients think hospitals and medical interventions look like what they see on television where most survive CPR beautifully; the truth is most people with advanced incurable cancer do not do well with these interventions and often suffer at the end of life.

Finally, I tried a different approach. “Do you mind if we take a walk through the ICU?” I said.

If words failed me, perhaps seeing the intensive care unit would help. Seated in a wheelchair …Helen got a tour of the ICU, where she saw an intubated patient on a ventilator and a patient having a large intravenous line placed. Her decision-making would be informed by what she saw, instead of having to imagine what my terms really meant.

When we arrived back at her room, she looked at me and said, “Words, words, words. . . Angelo, I understood every word that you said — CPR and breathing machines, but I had no idea that is what you meant.”

I was reprimanded by the ICU staff for bringing Helen and her husband on that tour, but I was quickly forgiven. Evidently, many felt, like me, that patients deserve to be educated in order to make informed decisions about end-of-life choices.”

That was years ago when he was a medical resident.

Today, he goes on to explain, he and others use video decision aids to help people think about care options.

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Boston Globe opinion piece on decision aids for dying patients on end-of-life care options

Angelo Volandes, MD, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, wrote an opinion piece published in the Boston Globe today.  He tells the story of a patient dying of cancer, with whom he brought up the topic of end-of-life care options:

“For the next hour I introduced a vocabulary as foreign to her as spondee and trochee were to me. Life-prolonging treatment and CPR, ventilators and intubation, DNR and DNI — terms that she would need to learn quickly. Unfortunately, I was trying to teach her a new lexicon in the midst of the haze of nausea and hospitalization.

Dazed and confused, they looked at me blankly. Words often fail us in medicine. How could I explain these abstract ideas and treatments? Most patients think hospitals and medical interventions look like what they see on television where most survive CPR beautifully; the truth is most people with advanced incurable cancer do not do well with these interventions and often suffer at the end of life.

Finally, I tried a different approach. “Do you mind if we take a walk through the ICU?” I said.

If words failed me, perhaps seeing the intensive care unit would help. Seated in a wheelchair …Helen got a tour of the ICU, where she saw an intubated patient on a ventilator and a patient having a large intravenous line placed. Her decision-making would be informed by what she saw, instead of having to imagine what my terms really meant.

When we arrived back at her room, she looked at me and said, “Words, words, words. . . Angelo, I understood every word that you said — CPR and breathing machines, but I had no idea that is what you meant.”

I was reprimanded by the ICU staff for bringing Helen and her husband on that tour, but I was quickly forgiven. Evidently, many felt, like me, that patients deserve to be educated in order to make informed decisions about end-of-life choices.”

That was years ago when he was a medical resident.

Today, he goes on to explain, he and others use video decision aids to help people think about care options.

View the original article here

The Obama Cocktail Comes to Boston

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By Kristine Hansen

On the heels of President Barack Obama's statement last week in support of marriage equality, a Boston hotel rolled out a cocktail a few days later that's in honor of this celebratory moment for the gay community.

"The Obama," the Beacon Hill Hotel & Bistro signature libation, contains Lillet Blanc, gin, fresh blueberries, and tonic water (L for Lillet, G for gin, B for blueberries, T for tonic.). It will be served on the rocks, garnished with two blueberries, in the hotel's bar daily through June 10, which is when Boston's annual Gay Pride Week ends. Each drink costs $11.

The drink is appropriately timed with an influx of gay-friendly travelers arriving to Boston for Pride Week (including the 2012 parade, which is a march to promote equal rights for gay, lesbian, and transgender people nationwide). Yet it also pays tribute to 30 years of the Pride movement worldwide, and the International Association of Pride Organizers (founded in Boston in 1982).

With just 13 rooms, Beacon Hill Hotel & Bistro–in Boston's historic and chic Beacon Hill neighborhood near the Public Garden—fuses modern amenities (the cocktail's innovative mixology, just one example) with a quaint charm. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as weekend brunch, is served daily.

For up-to-the-minute hotel and restaurant recommendations, plus the best planning advice, check out our Boston Travel Guide.

Photo credits: Courtesy of the Beacon Hill Hotel & Bistro

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