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Jane Friedhoff

Columbia College, Class of 2010

Indie game designer and creative technologist for the second, er, third, um, smallest screen; Webby Awards for the Morse Code experience she built at Google Creative Lab.

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Indie game designer and creative technologist for the second, er, third, um, smallest screen; Webby Awards for the Morse Code experience she built at Google Creative Lab. Jane Friedhoff (CC 2010) works in the smallest of the screens that have absorbed the Society's playwrights and screenwriters: the phone. An indie game designer and creative technologist, she spent 2013–2016 at The New York Times R&D Lab, then joined The Office for Creative Research, then Google's Creative Lab through 2019. Her 2019 Morse Code project for Google won two Webbys — Best User Experience, and Apps, Mobile & Voice: Technical Achievement (with the People's Voice Award) — the first Philolexian Webbys on record.

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Jane Friedhoff

Columbia & the Society

Columbia
Class of 2010 (Columbia College)

Works (7)

  1. 2013 “Suit the System to the Player: A Methodology for Physical Creativity” · DiGRA 2013 Conference proceedings
  2. 2013 “Untangling Twine: A Platform Study” · DiGRA 2013 Conference proceedings
  3. 2016 “Finding the Fun 2” · Game Developer (Gamasutra)
  4. 2016 “Riot Grrrl Game Design” · Game Developer (Gamasutra)
  5. 2017 “Making Portal Painter in ARCore” · Game Developer (Gamasutra)
  6. 2018 “Where C# Meets CSS: Tech Tricks From an AR Lyrics Experiment” · Game Developer (Gamasutra)
  7. 2024 “Werewolf Arena: A Case Study in LLM Evaluation via Social Deduction” (with Suma Bailis & Feiyang Chen) · arXiv/Google Research

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