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At the 2013 GDC Education Summit attendees will explore experimental and inventive educational approaches that established game curriculum builders can bring back to their faculty and classrooms. This program is aimed towards educators from established game development programs or new game course creators that want to understand the challenges they'll face in the next few years. It will bring scholars together with experienced professionals willing to learn, share ideas and achievements. The summit is a great professional development opportunity that will explore how collaboration leads to success not only in the classroom but in all aspects of work and life.

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2013 HIGHLIGHTED SESSIONS

Yamove! An Experiment in Collaboration Between Researchers and Indies
Katherine Isbister (NYU/ NYU-Poly)
Syed Salahuddin (Babycastles)
 
Can a great indie game answer fundamental research questions? What happens when you mix engineering students with cutting edge NYC indie game developers? Yamove! was an experiment in bringing these two worlds together. The resulting game was an IndieCade 2012 finalist, as well as a successful research project. In this talk, given by the lead researcher and an indie game curator/designer who worked on the project together, you'll learn about how this collaboration worked, how it came to be, and how to think about whether this might be something that fits into your own curriculum and plans for game education.
Play, Make, Appreciate: A Games Education Manifesto
John Sharp (Parsons The New School for Design)
Colleen Macklin (Parsons The New School for Design)
 
Over the last 20 or so years, game educators have collectively developed a game design and development education model based on engineering and studio art traditions. This has served our students well enough, and has provided the game industry with the next generation of employees. But should we be satisfied with the status quo? Macklin and Sharp suggest that we are just getting started. They propose a broader consideration of games and play in higher education--the Play, Make, Appreciate Manifesto. Join them as they question game puritanism and the fetishizing of games at the expense of play, as they ponder how we can increase enrollment and strengthen our position within academic institutions, and as they suggest ways to bring more diversity to our student populations.

GDC EDUCATION SUMMIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE

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Michael Mateas
UC Santa Cruz
 
Michael is recognized internationally as a leader in AI-based interactive storytelling. He is currently a faculty member in the Computer Science department at UC Santa Cruz, where he holds the MacArthur Endowed Chair. He founded and co-directs the Expressive Intelligence Studio, one of the largest technical game research groups in the world, and is also the founding director of the Center for Games and Playable Media at UC Santa Cruz. With Andrew Stern, Michael released FAÇADE, the world's first AI-based interactive drama. Façade has received significant attention, including top honors at the Slamdance independent game festival. Michael has given numerous keynote addresses and paper presentations at conferences worldwide. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Tracy Fullerton
USC School of Cinematic Arts
 
Tracy Fullerton, M.F.A., is an experimental game designer, professor and director of the Game Innovation Lab at the USC School of Cinematic Arts where she holds the Electronic Arts Endowed Chair in Interactive Entertainment. The USC Game Innovation Lab is a design research center that has produced several of the most influential projects to be released in the emerging field of independent games, including games like Cloud, Flow, Darfur is Dying, The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, and The Night Journey – a collaboration with media artist Bill Viola. Tracy is also the author of "Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games," a design textbook in use at game programs worldwide. Prior to entering academia, she was a professional game designer and entrepreneur making games for companies including Microsoft, Sony, MTV, among many others.
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Ian Schreiber
Game Developer & Professor
 
Ian Schreiber has been in the industry since the year 2000, first as a programmer and then as a game designer. He has worked on five published game titles and two serious game projects. Ian has taught game design and development courses at Ohio University, Columbus State Community College, and Savannah College of Art and Design.

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