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The hem of a sweater being held up to the camera. The sweater is dark gray with a light gray stripe on top of the dark grey ribbed knit. Above the light gray stripe is an embroidered cutout of a red pikmin (a small bipedal video game character with a white flower on its head)
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  • Theo Spitler
Sewing Station - Sweater Mending with Pikmin
Mending a sweater using reused Pikmin embroidery in the hole.
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Two black 3D printed stands - one is holding Nintendo switch controllers, and a controller case, and the other is holding a nintendo Gamecube controller. All controllers are being held "standing up".
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  • Nick Geiser
3D Printed Controller Stands
3D printed stands for Nintendo Switch and Gamecube controllers.
Lab Notes
The outside of an illustrated cardboard box. On the side of the box is six small drawings of possible "collectible" figures - a lucky cat, a slime, a venus fly trap, a phoenix, a goblin, and a minotaur.
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  • Christopher Michael-Acierno Mojares
Roblox 3D Printed Collectables
A "blind box" with 3D printed collectable figures from a Roblox game.
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Pie chart: Around 33% of US video game players are believed to be disabled
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  • David S Carter
CVGA Residency – Power to the Disabled Player
CVGA student resident Joseph Heger makes a plea for better integration of adaptive technology and options in major game releases.
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A Game Boy Color and original Game Boy dominated the center of the photo, with a box for Frogger for Game Boy Color on the left and an array of Game Boy cartridges in cases across the top.
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  • David S Carter
CVGA Residency – Cartridge Game Preservation
CVGA student resident Kiki Verdun reflects on her experiences this summer around the digital archiving of cartridge-based games.
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A collection of adaptive gaming tech in the CVGA
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  • David S Carter
CVGA Residency - Adaptive Gaming
CVGA student resident Shiryn Anissa Noor Affendi reflects on her experiences investigating adaptive and accessible gaming technology.
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  • David S Carter
Game Donations
We are no longer able to accept unsolicited game donations in the CVGA. Prior to sending or bringing us games please contact us first at video.games@umich.edu with an itemized list of the games and equipment that you would like to donate, so that we can check against our collection records to see what we need.
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  • David S Carter
The CVGA is Moving!
The CVGA will be moving to the Shapiro library over this summer. Our last date of operation in the Duderstadt will be this coming Friday (May 27), after which we will close to begin the process of moving to our new location on the 4th floor of Shapiro.
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Stock photo of someone playing video games
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  • Val Waldron
Winter Game-Related Classes
The University of Michigan is offering a rich variety of game-related courses during the Winter 2021 term, so we thought we'd highlight them here as well as on our research guide as you're choosing courses for the Winter term. If you're looking for ideas on how to play games online, we'd recommend taking a look at the Online Games page on our research guide.
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Student learning on laptop
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  • Val Waldron
Fall Game-Related Classes & CVGA Services During the Fall Term
Still looking for a video game-related class to take in the Fall? This blog post lists the classes that still have open spots. We also share details about what our services will look like (as far as we know) during the Fall term.
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