ClusterFlux Games Showcase

In the fall of 2022, I worked with Eren Slifker to produce a video showcase of game projects being produced in the UChicago community. We collaborated with the UChicago Game Design and the Media Arts and Design (MAAD) program staff to gather submissions, record voiceovers and footage of the video hosts, edit the video and game trailers, and host a premiere event for the video. A total of 25 projects were featured in the showcase. On the evening of the premiere, we hosted the ClusterFlux Arcade, with ten of the game submissions hosting playable demos of their game for guests to play. 

My Contributions

I handled almost all of the production logistics and a smaller portion of the editing work on the showcase. My responsibilities on the project included:

• Publicizing our submission form to the community across multiple channels

• Coordinating with course instructors for class-related project submissions (Critical Videogame Studies and Human-Computer Interaction)

• Communicating with submitters to provide project information and game footage for trailers

• Reaching out to other community organizations to include promotions for their events in the video

• Coordinating with MAAD staff to mesh the video and premiere event with their existing "ClusterFlux" event series

• Video script-writing

• On-set production tasks for filming the video hosts, including assisting with A/V and lighting tech, script supervision, and coordinating filming timelines with the talent

• Editing raw footage of game submissions into polished trailers for 15 of the 25 game submissions