Rensselaer is America’s oldest technological research university, offering bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences, information technology and web science, architecture, management, and the humanities, arts, and social sciences.

The university offers degrees from five schools: Engineering; Science; Architecture; Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; and the Lally School of Management; as well as an interdisciplinary degree in Information Technology and Web Science.

Rensselaer offers more than 145 programs at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels. Students are encouraged to work in interdisciplinary programs that allow them to combine scholarly work from several departments or schools. The university provides rigorous, engaging, interactive learning environments and campus-wide opportunities for leadership, collaboration, and creativity.

Driven by talented, dedicated, and forward-thinking faculty, Rensselaer has dramatically expanded the research enterprise by leveraging our existing strengths and focusing on five signature research areas: biotechnology and the life sciences; energy and the environment; computational science and engineering; nanotechnology and advanced materials; and media, arts, science, and technology.

The Institute is especially well-known for its success in the transfer of technology from the laboratory to the marketplace so that new discoveries and inventions benefit human life, protect the environment, and strengthen economic development.

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Simulating Saratoga: How Saratoga-Themed Board Games Function as Experiential Historiography

To What Extent Were Progressive Politics Before World War Two a Fundamentally Imperial Project? The Case of International Humanitarian Relief in Russia, 1921-1923

Board with Meaning: Reflections on Game Design and Historiography

Maurice Suckling has worked in the games industry for over 20 years, with over 50 published video game titles to his name. He’s worked as a producer, designer, voice director, motion capture director, animation director, and, most often, as a writer. In addition to Suckling’s work in games, he has also worked in TV and movies, and has published a collection of short stories and a novel. His research interests include storytelling in games, board and card games as narrative systems, and historical simulations. 

Suckling’s first game was "Driver" in 1999. Since then, he’s worked on “Fortnite,” “Killing Floor 2,” “Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel,” “Mafia III,” “Civilization VI,” and the “Wii Fit” series. Between 2013 and 2015, he served as narrative director for 2K Australia. The second edition of his co-authored "Video Game Writing: From Macro To Micro" was published by Mercury Learning in 2017. Suckling’s first board game, “Freeman's Farm: 1777,” was published by Worthington Publishing in 2019. Since then, he has published three more board games, all through Worthington. Suckling is currently working on several history-themed board games for several different publishers.

Game Design

Narrative and Dialogue in Video Games

Board Games

Game Design & Development

Videogame Design

History of Games

Storytelling

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Rebellion: Britannia, Leaders

Rebellion: Britannia, The Events Deck, Part #2

Rebellion: Britannia, The Events Deck, Part #1

Interview with Maurice Suckling Designer of Rebellion: Britannia – Resistance Against Rome in 1st Century Britain from GMT Games

Rebellion: Britannia, Indigenous British Culture

Maurice Suckling AHA! A House for Arts

Here's what three Troy video game startups have been doing this year

The Re-popularization of Commercial Wargames

Interview with Maurice Suckling and Dorian Richard

Video Game Writing From Macro To Micro

Freeman's Farm (2019)

Chancellorsville 1863 (2020)

Assistant Professor, Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences

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