Accolades

Exhibits/Awards

2020

• MAGFest Official Select 2020

2019

• Whaaat!? 2019 Official Select
• Come Out & Play 2019 Official Select
• PRESS START Los Angeles Showcase Select 2019
• MAGWest Official Select 2019
• Indie Prize USA Official Select 2019
• Bit Bash Chicago Official Select 2019
• IGF Nuovo Nominee 2019
• MAGFest Official Select 2019

2018

• Out of Index Official Select 2018
• IndieCade Night Games Selection 2018
• Two Official Selects at Different Games 2018
• A Maze. / Berlin Award Nominee 2018
• PlayDate official select 2018
• That.Party Select at GDC 2018
• The Other Party Select at GDC 2018
• BlushBox SXSW 2018 Select
• Independent Games Festival Honorable Mention for Best Student Game 2018

2017

• Forbes 30 Under 30: Games, Class of 2017
• Official Select for Slamdance Film Festival 2017
• Inaugural SXSW Student Showcase Official Select 2017
• Independent Games Festival Honorable Mention for Best Student Game 2017
• QGCon Official Select 2017
• Miami University 18 of the Last 9 Honoree
• Two Official Selects for Out of Index Festival 2017
• Official Selection for NonPlussed Fest 2017
• Completed making 100 games in 5 years
• First Place Ohio University Digital Expo 2017
• Two Official Selects at Bit Bash Chicago 2017
• Two Official Selects at A MAZE. / Johannesburg 2017
• Showcased game at Escape Velocity 2017
• Official Selection Fantastic Arcade 2017

2016

• Media Choice Award at IndieCade 2016
• Instalation at SlamDance 2016
• Installation at Blank Arcade 2016
• Display at the National Arts Center in Tokyo Japan as part of 19th Japan Media Arts Festival
• IndieCade Big Game Select 2016
• Three Official Selects at Meaningful Play 2016
• Official Select at 9th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 2016
• Official Select at Come Out & Play 2016
• First Place Ohio University Digital Expo 2016
• Official Selection for Nonplussed Fest 2016
• Official Select at Game Happens! 2016
• Official Select at A MAZE. / Johannesburg 2016
• Official Select Tokyo Game Show Indie Area 2016
• Selected Team for Dare to be Digital 2016
• Two Official Selects for Dare to Be Digital ProtoPlay 2016
• Official Select for Slamdance DIG 2016

2015

• Jury Select in the 19th Japan Media Arts Festival
• Bronze at Serious Play 2015
• Exhibited at E3 2015
• Official Select at Games+Learning+Society 11
• Official Select at DIGRA Blank Arcade 2015
• Official Select at Tokyo Game Show Indie Area 2015
• Official Select at Come Out & Play 2015
• Special Select at IndieCade 2015
• Official Select at Different Games 2015
• Official Select at GameJolt GDC Booth 2015

2014

• Silver Medal at Serious Play Conference 2014
• Most Meaningful Game at Meaningful Play 2014
• Best Spectacle at Come Out & Play 2014
• Game of the Year 2014 by AIMS Game Center
• Best Digital Game 2014 by AIMS Game Center
• Displayed at the Miami of Ohio University Art Museum 2013 – 2014
• Official Select at Come Out & Play Festival, San Francisco 2014
• Official Select at Games+Learning+Society 11
• Official Select at Meaningful Play 2014
• Displayed at Miami of Ohio’s Digital Expo 2014
• Displayed at the Ohio Game Developer Expo 2014
• Official Select at the Smithsonian Pop-up Arcade 2014
• Official Select at Digra Blank Arcade 2014
• Official Select at Different Games 2014
• Official Select at EGX Leftfield Collection 2014
• Special Select at IndieCade 2014
• Official Select at Different Games 2014

2013

• Silver Medal at Serious Play 2013
• Official Select at Artscape 2013
• Official Select at Different Games 2013
• Official Select at Games+Learning+Society 9.0

2012

• Official Select at Meaningful Play Conference 2012

Podium Presentations/Lectures

• Tired of Fun? at Whaaat!?, Boulder, Colorado 2019
• Make it Personal: Are We Designing Empathetic Games? Panel at IndieCade, LA, 2018
• The Fun is Over, It’s Time to Get Serious About Games at A MAZE. / Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2018
• The Horror of Porn, opening talk at Heartbeat Symposium, Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia 2017
• 10 Lessons from Making 100 Games in 5 Years at IndieCade, LA 2017
• Making Video Games with Little Coding panel moderator at Escape Velocity, DC 2017
• Storytelling in Different Media panel at Escape Velocity, DC 2017
• Alternative Sports and Gaming at Escape Velocity, DC 2017
• How Every Game Display is an Installation at IndieCade, LA 2016
• Game Design Adaptation Strategies for Literary and Classical Texts at DIGRA/FDG, Dundee Scotland 2016
• Metafiction in Videogames at Different Games Conference, NYC 2016
• Existence.Identity.Games at Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference, LA 2016
• Games for Yourself and Others at Miami University, Oxford as invited speaker, Ohio 2016
• Metafiction in Videogames at Games Learning Society Conference, Madison, WI 2015
• Making 100 Games in 5 Years: A Development Marathon of Sprints at Games Learning Society Conference, Madison, WI 2015
• Music Video(games) at Different Games Conference, NYC 2015

Press

• Interviewed on ForDevsByDevs, Developer Interview – James Earl Cox III