Daniel Rehn

The Playpower Foundation

Daniel Rehn is an artist, designer and scientist who is the creative director for Re:Game at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) at UC, San Diego.

The Re:Game initiative, founded by Mr. Rehn, Derek Lomas and Jeremy Douglass, is comprised of several projects in the rapidly developing field of game studies including: Playpower and the Video Gameplay Database (VGDb).

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4:10pm Tuesday, 03/10/2009

Playpower: Designing 8-bit Learning Games for Radically Affordable Computers

Computing, Developing Markets
Location: Empire Room

Derek Lomas (The Playpower Foundation), Daniel Rehn (The Playpower Foundation), Jeremy Douglass (U. California San Diego)

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Half the world lives on less than $2.50 per day and has minimal access to education. The Playpower Foundation is using a radically affordable $12 computer, based on an old video game console technology (now in the public domain) as an 8-bit platform for learning games. Global poverty meets 8-bit design constraints--with only an open source community of 8-bit hackers in the middle? Read more.

PLAYPOWER - Let's Go 8-bit!

Jeremy Douglass (U. California San Diego), Derek Lomas (The Playpower Foundation), Daniel Rehn (The Playpower Foundation)

Exploring the intersection of 8-bit art, culture, gameplay and learning by playing with open hardware and software.

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