Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mary-Flanagan-and-Josie-True.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 7/13/2005 Mary Flanagan and Josie True Transcript Recently, Recess! contributor Laurie Taylor spoke with Mary Flanagan, a visual artist and a video game designer who has been at work on a number of exciting new projects involving the emerging digital arts and the important role they […]
You’re hearing a little from a performance of the Super Mario Brothers’ theme song. While much of the press on video games deals with their play capacities or their incredible graphics, the music that accompanies the games is about to take center stage, and kids and adults alike are going to be begging to see the concerts.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Toy-Theaters.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 12/30/2004 Toy Theaters Transcript More than a century before there were video games, there were toy theaters — small stages made from paper where children and adults could act out plays of their own invention, or dramas based on existing plays that were published […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/National-Game-and-Puzzle-Week.mp3 Author Cathlena Martin and Laurie Taylor Air Date 11/23/2004 Mystery Games Transcript If you and your family are into mysteries, especially on chilly late fall or winter evenings, you might want to look at some old and new games to add some quality family time to those evenings. While […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-License-for-the-Month-of-the-Dinosaur.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 10/1/2004 A License for The Month of the Dinosaur Transcript Recently, while going through my old childhood books, I found my brother’s dinosaur hunting license. It reads: Dinosaur Hunting License Special Permit No. 737-8686 Issued to: Colin Issued by Authority U.S. Reptile Control Commission […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Women-and-Video-Games.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 9/14/2004 Women and Video Games Transcript This month Austin, Texas, hosted the First National Women’s Game Conference. The conference, which ran September 9th-10th concurrently with the Austin Game Convention, will bring together game designers, artists, academics, and other video game specialists to explore ways […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Machinima-Making-Movies-out-of-Video-Games.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 6/17/2004 Machinima Transcript You may not be aware of it, but there are interesting new ways that people are “playing” video games. For instance, you can actually use video games to make original short movies. A number of games now come with built-in options […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Word-Games-for-Game-and-Puzzle-Week.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 11/25/2003 Word Games for Game and Puzzle Week Transcript We’ve all seen word puzzles like anagrams and crosswords in the local paper, but most of us aren’t aware of the long and complex history of these conundrums. For instance, most scholars believe that word […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Spy-Alley.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 8/7/2003 Spy Alley Transcript By this point in the summer, the children in your household are probably ready for some intrigue, deception, and suspense — the kind provided by daring, fictional spies and crackers of mysteries like Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Shelley-Jackson.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 7/31/2003 Shelley Jackson Transcript Shelley Jackson is a well-known author of hypertext and other new-wave digital fiction for adults, but Recess’s Laurie Taylor spoke with her recently about her work as a children’s book author — of two intriguing picture books that have already […]