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GameZombie TV produced over 500 original game videos for global webcast. GameZombie TV's world exclusive video interview series features some of the biggest names in the business, including Peter Molyneux of Fable, Ed Boon of Mortal Kombat, Todd Howard of Fallout, John Romero of Doom, Gabe Newell of Valve, and Cliff Bleszinski of Gears of War. After winning a 2008 and 2009 Webby Honoree Award for Online Video, GameZombie won the Internet Industry's two highest honors in 2010, a Webby Award and a People's Voice Webby Award.

In plague-ridden ancient Athens, take on the role of Nikos, a young physician battling an unknown disease during war. Make life-altering choices, challenge the gods, and navigate political intrigue as you fight to save Athens from collapse

History Adventures presents a fresh approach to education, designed for today's digital generation. This interactive, multimodal learning experience combines storytelling with mobile entertainment, bringing the pages of history to life.

Spencer Striker, PhD, hosts a new media/tech interview series called TechZombie TV, 2010-2012. A series of leading technology thinkers from around the world chat with Dr. Striker's classes at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater's Media Arts and Game Development program, including such luminaries as Craig Newmark, Guy Kawasaki, John Battelle, Michael Chorost, Siva Vaidhyanathan, and Kevin Kelly.

The future of the book is now. Once depicted as a form of magic in the movies, print media can now move, talk, and come to life on the page. The tablet, introduced to mass markets in 2010 as the iPad, synthesized the affordances of print and digital media into a single, streamlined experience. The 2nd generation iPad Pro, released in the summer of 2017, brings desktop level performance to the tablet-computing genre - and with that, unprecedented potential for developers of tablet-first interactive media. History Adventures: Conscribo is a next gen digital book application developed in association with leading scholars in world history. This digital book app represents a game-changing digital learning experience for 21st Century students. History Adventures: Conscribo combines the latest innovations in mobile entertainment design technology--including motion, cinematics, animation, music, and sound fx; with the powerful storytelling device of narrativizing the life stories of peoples who lived in past centuries, in different epochs and locations around the globe; with the innovative, cross-disciplinary curricula of Big History: to create a revolutionary interactive learning experience that will enhance and broaden student comprehension of the complex world around them. Original, applied interaction design research demonstrates how data visualization, interactive maps of time, musical scoring, branching paths, and documentary-inspired visualizations can bring the pages of history to life.

Spencer Striker's next work in the History Adventures digital book series will be Empires and Interconnections, covering the dramatic period 1450-1750. This new product will include enhanced interactive features, 3D designs, motion fx, and animation-as well as six fascinating new characters. A conquistador trekking through the treacherous jungles and mountains of 16th Century Peru, doomed to a dismal end in his quest for glory and riches. An advisor in the Medieval court of Tokugawa Japan, trading in secrets and intrigue when the politics couldn't be more high-stakes or ruthless. A man from Angola sold by Portuguese slave traders to the Jamestown colonists in 1619. A zamindar (tax collector) in Mughal India during the British conquest of the South Asian continent. A young woman of Turkish and Byzantine ancestry living through the traumatic 1453 Siege of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire. And finally, a Spanish alchemist living at the nexus of superstition, science, literacy, and the powerful Catholic Church, experiencing the Inquisition even as the Scientific Revolution is just gaining hold. The big picture goal of History Adventures, World of Characters is to spark enthusiasm for learning about the past - and bring the pages of history to life.

Introducing Empires and Interconnections, the newest edition in the award-winning History Adventures digital learning series, now available for iPad and Android Tablet, fully reimagined using the powerful Unity3D game engine.

Launched in March of 2016, Dubai's original tech podcast focused on bringing listeners informative conversations with local experts exploring the latest trends in the digital media and tech scene in the burgeoning international capital that is Dubai. Hosted by Spencer Striker, PhD, digital media professor at the American University in Dubai--episodes were recorded on location at AUD in the heart of Dubai's Media City.

In a world turned upside down by revolutions and industrialization, five individuals from different parts of the globe navigate the turbulent period from 1750-1900. Their stories of struggle, resistance, and survival bring history to life.

In a post-zombocalyptic world, the dark scientist Anthony is charged by the bloodthirty tyrant, Typhus Argento, with transporting certain unspeakable horrors to a mysterious buyer in Chicago. The guilt-torn doctor has other plans. Spencer Striker's Twisted Cargo is a next gen digital graphic novel experience originally designed for UAE Innovation Week, and built on the proprietary MadeFire MotionBook platform. The product leverages the affordances of the iPad Pro and utilizes multimodality; interactivity; motion fx; parallax; panorama; sound design; and an original music score. Published live, on the international MadeFire platform.

In plague-stricken 14th-century Venice, "Black Death Interactive" follows Giana, a young woman making heart-wrenching choices as the pandemic ravages her city. An immersive blend of horror, history, and learning through narrative design.

Dr. Sara: Disease Detective is a visual novel mobile game featuring the World's Greatest Epidemiologist. Students take on the role of Dr. Sara in a character-driven simulation of Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) detective work-investigating and solving outbreaks around the globe. Dr. Sara is a brave, brilliant disease detective taking on severe and perplexing outbreaks in hotspots around the world-searching for the index case, connecting seemingly disparate dots, confronting fear, both personal and societal-all the while racing against time to find clues to a cure. Like a cross between Lara Croft and Dr. House MD: Dr. Sara is equally at home in the lab, in the field, and on duty in the emergency room. Dr. Sara: Disease Detective features high stakes time pressure, compelling characters, narrative design, challenging puzzles, and the natural gameplay dynamics that emerge from network science and contact tracing. We hope this new visual novel mobile game game will inspire students to develop an interest in science medicine technology and public health. Fun, immersive gameplay features include: Visual novel style interactive dialogue; Innovative character design; MiniGames about social distancing; Hidden object investigation; Eureka style logic puzzles; Collectible scientific vocabulary; game-based learning techniques; Cinematics, visualeffects, original music and immersive sound design. Dr. Sara: Disease Detective is made possible by funding from the HBKU Innovation Center in Education City in Doha, Qatar.

Global Pandemics: Plague of Athens is a cutting-edge, Chrome browser-based, digital learning experience designed to enhance student understanding of the role of pandemics in world history.