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Behold, the Game Innovation Lab. My adviser’s baby and my new home for my research and project work. I have a desk. With great big monitors. And my beloved leg lamp (it’s a major award). We have a soundproof testing lab and floofy-but-firm things to sit on.

My first day in the lab was yesterday. I finally got to meet Chrystanaa Brown. She’s our lab manager. We are going to get along famously. I also met Widget, our resident techy geek support guy extraordinaire. Judging by their hats, you can tell that I’ve fallen hopelessly in love with them both.

Sadly, at the time of these photos, the massive media wall outside the lab was on the fritz. So no massive media. Just a wall.

For the record, I intend my research area to focus on unstructured play rather than games, but this is a great place to play around nonetheless, don’t you think?