The Last Bastion of the Human Creative Mind
I am Dr. Jens M. Stober, media artist and Creative Media PhD. For over twenty years I have moved at the intersection of hacking, game design, and media art. My dissertation, Hacking as a Playful Strategy, treated code as a playground for emergent meaning. My 2015...
Exploring Viking History: 3D-Scanned Nordic Runestones from Lund, Sweden
Authentic Viking Age runestones, 3D-scanned in Lund, Sweden, and fully optimized for Unreal Engine 5. Low-poly, Nanite-ready meshes with 4K PBR textures, perfect for games, virtual production, museums, and educational AR/VR projects.
Adaptive, AI-Driven Gaming: Shaping the Future of Interactive Entertainment
Multiplayer games have long been the cornerstone of the gaming community. But what if every gaming experience could be as unique as the player behind the screen? Today, adaptive, personalized single-player games powered by advanced AI are paving the way for a...
Building the Perfect Unreal Engine 5 Workstation
Are you ready to bring your creative visions to life with Unreal Engine 5? As a media artist with over 20 years of experience in game engines and interactive media art, I understand how critical a high-performance workstation is to your success. Unreal Engine 5’s cutting-edge features like Nanite and Lumen demand top-tier hardware, and building the right PC can make all the difference.
1378(km) @ Museum of World Culture in Gotheburg, Sweden
My Serious Game Art Piece 1378(km) is shown at the Museum of World Culture (Varldskulturmuseet) in Gothenburg, Sweden in the exhibition World of Games (VÄRLDENS SPEL). The Show opens on 01. April 2023.
Publication: Context Matters!
The activity of play is situated within different contextual constraints. Games contextualize the way we play and, vice versa, our play recontextualizes the rules and goals of games. Our culture, society and history contextualizes the way we create and experience...
Futuristic and Fictional User Interfaces
Prof. Dr. Matthias Wölfel (School of Design of Pforzheim University) and Jens M. Stober (RMIT University, GEElab Europe) held a three days workshop about Futuristic and Fictional User Interfaces. In this workshop the students did explore playfully historic and...
My Serious Game 1378(km) is one of the best German Games in the last 25 years!
My artistic Serious Game 1378(km) was noted as one of the best German Games of the last 25 years by the online presences of the newspaper WELT and ComputerBILD Spiele. Exactly (03. October 2013) three years after the turbulent release of the game it was ennobled by...