The Studio 4 Game Innovation is a faculty led, student inclusive Game Design Studio and Research Lab at Arizona State University.
Welcome to the West Campus, the home of The Studio 4 Game Innovation. This is the CLCC building where the lab is located.
Current Work
Through My Child’s Eyes: Imaginative Play to Promote Peaceful Behavior in Separated and Divorcing Parents
Purpose: Decades of research have shown that exposure to parental conflict predicts poor outcomes for children across family structures, socioeconomic status, and cultural and geographic lines. Children exposed to parental conflict are more likely to develop mental and physical health problems.
Premise: The open question is: as the parents play through their children’s eyes, will they be able to see themselves as their children see them and see themselves as the agent for change - will the imaginative play in the game have a transformative effect?
Designing Moral Games: A Manifesto on Games, Moral Agency, Systemic Justice, and Human Possibility
Purpose: To give designers true philosophical fluency—a language for thinking about justice, autonomy, and obligation within the mechanics they build—and to empower players as moral agents who can recognize the ethical propositions embedded in every game world they inhabit.
Premise: This book trilogy offers a framework for Prescriptive Game Design grounded in ethical theory and lived practice, treating design as a moral act. Each volume explores a distinct lens— duty, shared welfare, virtue—and reimagines these theories as design tools for narrative, mechanics, and systems of player agency.
Designing Moral Games Book Trilogy (2024-present)
Through My Child's Eyes (2024-present)
Whispers of the American West (2018-2021)
ChairJam Puts Spin on Hackathon Concept (2018-2019)
100 & Change: Removing Barriers to Inclusion for Persons with an Ambulatory Disability. (2017)
Art as Innovation for Games (2016)
Game Worlds: A Howard Becker Influenced Institutional Theory of Games (2016)
Games as a New Predicate for Art (2015)
Integrating Games into the Artworld (2015)
What Would Kant Do? (2014)
Let’s Work Together
If you are a prospective client, we’re always looking for new opportunities and are comfortable working internationally. Please get in touch and we will contact you about beginning the proposal process.
If you are a student at ASU and would like to have an internship in the game studio please get in touch to express your interest.