Weston Game Lab

08/30/2024

Over 1,000 first-year students have already registered for the Haven game. Today, the experience is entering its endgame. Have you started exploring? It's not too late to join! You can begin or continue the game here: Welcome to Haven. All chapters are now live. Starting now, on Friday, August 30 and Saturday, August 31, the final chapter of Haven will become available. For 36 hours, you can play a series of collaborative puzzles. These time-bound challenges will not be in single-player mode and can only be played with between 10 to 22 players at a time. If the UChicago community solves these puzzles, they will unlock the game's ending, which reveals the answers to many unresolved questions. You can log into the world of Haven (https://haven.academy/) using your CNetID and And click on Volcanic Island to start the final chapter.

08/18/2024

Explore Haven’s Tidal Island, which features more public spaces than the other islands. Courses offered here explore disciplines such as anthropology, history, political science, and sociology. Some professors favor knowledge that emerges through close observation and ethnographic conversation with human subjects, while others prefer quantitative and computational approaches. Here, you might learn more about the history of Haven itself and work on your social efficiency score. Upon arrival, you’ll meet HAIL-E who will lead you through the island — with attitude.

Play Haven now to explore Tidal Island and Oceanic Island! More coming soon.

08/14/2024

On Friday, explore Haven’s Oceanic Island, which combines an actual island with a flotilla of myriad boats. You’ll hear a cacophony of languages across these boats. If you spend time here, you’ll take courses in English, media studies, philosophy, and myriad languages. If you want to get into it, there are plenty of people who will want to debate the historical significance of The Hunger Games and the true nature of translation. You might also enjoy the virtual wonders of Plato’s Cave.

08/13/2024

On Friday, explore Haven's Coral Island, which is a triumph of colorful experience design. This shoal commits to the design and creation of objects as a form of knowledge. The professors here favor open-ended exploration, design thinking, and collaborative group work. Among the creative spirits, you’ll meet people studying visual artist, game design, performance, and music. Be sure to visit the pink room, the hip hop room, and the sensory deprivation room. If you’re a maker or like to play games, you’ll thrive here.

08/12/2024

On Friday, explore Haven’s Artificial Island, which was terraformed by Haven’s most talented scientists and engineers. On this shoal, you’ll find experts in a range of disciplines that use the scientific method, including astronomy, biology, computer science, and physics. The administration building has an extremely committed Chess-bot and the telescope in the Observatory is surprisingly powerful. Also, be on the lookout for some strange tiny bots created by both faculty and students.

07/30/2024

Hello everyone, and welcome to your first day at Haven! We hope you enjoy your orientation experience as you get settled into Haven Academy. Make sure you finish orientation before classes at Haven begin on August 16th, so you can explore all that our four shoals have to offer. Begin exploring at https://haven.academy !

05/24/2022

Thank you for having us North Shore Country Day! Your students rock!

05/02/2022

Come hang out with us!

05/20/2021

Congratulations to our faculty director, Patrick Jagoda on receiving the Quantrell Award for Undergraduate Teaching. This award is given to faculty for ✨exceptional ✨teaching! If you are planning to take classes next academic year, be sure to look for some of his courses!

Awards recognize faculty for exceptional teaching, mentoring amid unique year

03/08/2021

✨The Media Arts and Design Major✨ is finally here! Can't wait to make some cool games with students!

The new major will focus on the study and creation of experimental media, such as video games, electronic music, and podcast development.

11/03/2020

The Story of Echo: According to the Fourcast Lab's calibrations, a portal was opening in Regenstein Library to a parallel universe. This portal opened up Oct 30th at 9pm. There we were faced with a series of challenges from a group working on "Portal Technology".

11/02/2020

Thank you to everyone who participated in ECHO! We had over 50 teams submit over 600 quests and over 200 people join us for the online finale. This was beyond our expectations. We will be posting some images from the game this week. ✨Thank you all so much!✨