The Center for Transformational Play (CTP) at Carnegie Mellon brings together world-class expertise from across the university to design, build and study transformational games.
The CTP uses the power of play to tackle educational, industrial and social challenges, from teaching children about robotics to helping adults with their aphasia rehabilitation exercises. Other projects include playful methods to support climate action, games to help with healthy sleep and leveraging game streaming for interactive learning — to name just a few of our many and diverse interests.
The CTP has the interdisciplinary expertise to connect across the university, from the educational gaming work at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) to the transformational game capstones at the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC). We also collaborate with cutting-edge researchers in computer science, neuroscience, psychology, drama, and art — all areas where Carnegie Mellon’s excellence can help us advance our work on transformational play.
The CTP creates the community and resources to enrich and expand the transformational impact of games. Join us in the exciting work ahead!
The CTP provides a space to connect with colleagues by:
The center makes it easier to create high-quality transformational games at a range of scales and budgets by:
We support interdisciplinary research related to transformational games, including the science of play, mechanisms of player transformation and novel game technologies by:
The CTP raises awareness of our game work, and helps our games have an impact in the world by: