2025 HumanitiesX Fellows HumanitiesX, funded by the Mellon Foundation, is DePaul’s Experiential Humanities Collaborative. Professor Lisa Dush, Faculty Director of DePaul’s HumanitiesX program announced the 2025 HumanitiesX fellows. Matters at Play’s Professor Tran will expand her transformational game design and immigration games work by collaborating with Dr. Ramya Ramanath and their community partner, Sanctuary Working Group, to teach “Finding… Continue reading HumanitiesX 2025 cohort announced
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Reckoning with Redress with Full Spectrum Features
Professor Lien Tran joins Full Spectrum Features (FSF) as the game design lead for their “Reckoning with Redress” project, an educational program (film + interactive site) to learn about the justice and reparation movement for Japanese Americans wrongfully incarcerated during World War II. This is FSF’s final project as part of a trilogy on Japanese… Continue reading Reckoning with Redress with Full Spectrum Features
Lien Tran receives Excellence in Service award
Lien Tran receives a 2023 IndieCade Horizons faculty award for Excellence in Service. This award recognizes an individual who has made important and impactful contributions to the academic games field through service. Awardees are selected for excellence in one of three categories: teaching, innovation, and service. Faculty are eligible to be nominated by a peer or… Continue reading Lien Tran receives Excellence in Service award
Games for civics op ed published in New Thinking
The majority of Americans know little about civics and government; video games could prove the unorthodox solution to our miseducation. This is the topic of Professor Lien Tran’s second op ed as a Public Voices fellow with The OpEd Project. On February 4, 2023, New Thinking magazine published her op ed entitled “The Game of Life: Leveraging Tech for Civics Education“. Educators… Continue reading Games for civics op ed published in New Thinking
Teaching the Next Generation of G4C Developers
Teaching the Next Generation of Games for Change Developers Lien Tran participated in the 2022 Games for Change festival as a panelist speaking about how she has been approaching teaching the next generation of games for change developers as a college professor. Below are a few of the slides shared during her segment. Previous Next… Continue reading Teaching the Next Generation of G4C Developers
Teaching Games with Games at GDC 2022
On March 22, 2022, at the 2022 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, CA, Professor Lien Tran joined an esteem group of educators to share new ways to look at games for change and learning. This Educators Summit session called “Teaching Games with Games 7: Changing the Game” was particularly useful for seasoned and new… Continue reading Teaching Games with Games at GDC 2022