Category Archives: From My Work

These are posts that have to do with my day to day job at the American Museum of Natural History.

MicroRangers To The Rescue! A new mobile app from the Museum brings an invisible world to life

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Barry

This season’s issue of Rotunda, our Member magazine, features a two-page spread inaugurating the launch of our new mobile game, MicroRangers. You can download it here or read it below (you can also learn more at MicroRangers.org, where you can … Continue reading →

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Ludology Podcast focuses on Gutsy, with Interviews

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Barry

In the recent episode of the podcast Ludology, an analytical discussion of the how’s and why’s of the world of board games, Geoffrey Engelstein interviewed both Eric Teo and myself about the new game we developed with Susan Perkins and … Continue reading →

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Epic headshop at 31;65, or Minecraft & 21st Century Learning

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Barry

Last fall I participated in a panel at the The Bard Graduate Center entitled “Toys in Context: Sweden, Scandinavia, and the Digital World” – a fancy way of saying we were talking about Minecraft. Along with Colin Fanning, the curatorial fellow … Continue reading →

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Gutsy Defies Expectations in New Review on Dice Tower Podcast

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Barry

Our new card game, Gutsy, received its first review this week, on Episode 432 of the Dice Tower, a podcast about board and card games that has a audience of about 25,000. We’ve been delighted by the game, currently for … Continue reading →

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Wacky Promotional Video for Gutsy, the Card Game

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Barry

Inside our Museum’s latest exhibit – The Secret World Inside You – this video promotion for the Gutsy card game runs as the interstitial before and after the introductory video for the exhibit. It is so awesome! I watch it … Continue reading →

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MicroRangers Teaser Video

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Barry

MicroRangers is coming… in just few weeks. And here’s a little teaser. Below is a photo of the Communicator Coins which just arrived TODAY! We’re so excited to see them. Conceptually, they began as cards – one which I had … Continue reading →

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Hear me talk about Minecraft all week (please tip your waiter)

Posted on November 8, 2015 by Barry

Sometimes the Minecraft stars align, and sometimes they get all jumbled, and sometimes they just run into a creeper and get blown up. Wait… where was I going with all this? Oh, right! This week I am participating in not … Continue reading →

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Playing Gutsy at the Press Briefing for the Inside You Exhibit

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Hannah Jaris

There was a gentle groan from the players standing around the Gutsy! table stationed at the end of the new exhibit, The Incredible World Inside You. All of the players had to pass their Hand to the left because the … Continue reading →

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Another Lovely Article on our Telepresence Robot

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Barry

Jessica Hullinger penned, “The high-tech museums of the future,” for the The Week. Check it out here or read it below. Like the recent coverage in the Wall Street Journal, it does an excellent job exploring how we’ve been experimenting … Continue reading →

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Feeling Gutsy? Check out a new card game about gut microbiomes

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Barry

It won’t be available for purchase in the store until the opening this weekend of our new exhibit, The Secret World Inside You, but you can download NOW the new card game we developed with exhibit co-curator Susan Perkins, students … Continue reading →

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