Mind Control Division

Media intelligence through investigation and experimentation

The Mind Control Division is the intelligence arm of Blaine Kyllo's Solo Corps. This department conducts investigations and experiments into media culture, which includes, but is not limited to, writing on television, video games, and books.

I’m currently writing on video games ("Trigger Happy" in the Georgia Straight and "Joystuck" in FFWD Weekly), consumer technology ("Techno Logic" in the Georgia Straight), and television ("Remote View" appears at CinemaSpy.ca).

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UBC's first ever video game programming course · 26 April 2012, 13:16

The University of British Columbia has a great computer science program, but it hasn’t offered any instruction in video games. Until last semester. I write about the program in the Straight.

The University of British Columbia’s department of computer science hit a milestone this month when its first-ever course in programming video games wrapped up. The class, simply entitled Computer Science 319: Software Projects, was designed and taught by Kimberly Voll, an award-winning lecturer and full-time faculty member.

Voll also talked about the huge demand for software engineers.

It’s not just the video-game industry that’s scrambling to hire computer-science graduates. UBC lecturer Kimberly Voll says that all industries are suffering from the shortage.

Filed in Trigger-Happy, video-games

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