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Game Design Concepts — an experiment in design & teaching April 27, 2009

Filed under: games — Gwen @ 8:08 pm

Ian Schreiber, a professor at my school (Scad) and Columbus State Community College, is offering a game design course over summer 2009.

The course:

  • begins Monday, June 29
  • lasts for ten weeks
  • is online
  • and free
  • and all about designing games!

Therefore there are no reasons why you shouldn’t sign up for this awesome experience.

WordPress blog here > Game Design Concepts

A quick email and cheap book are all you need to participate.

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20 Reasons Why GDC Kicked Ass April 9, 2009

Filed under: Uncategorized — Gwen @ 5:50 pm

1. Eating chocolate sundaes with Raph Koster and Jesse Schell at Denny’s
2. Seeing inside the secret room at Three Rings Design
3. Presenting trophies on-stage at the Choice Awards
4. Congratulating Hideo Kojima for his Lifetime Achievement Award
5. Putting on the Emotiv headset and using my master Jedi mind powers
6. Getting into the Valve, Blizzard and Microsoft parties with Ryan
7. Hearing Clint Hocking drop an f-bomb for the first (and probably not last) time
8. Being interviewed by Morgan Romine, AKA Rhoulette –the Team Captain of the Frag Dolls
9. Talking about MUDs with my mentor, Erin Hoffman (you are awesome!)
10. Eating lunch in Berkeley with people from HumaNature Studios and then souvenir shopping
11. Hanging out with my fellow scholars (these people are the greatest you will ever meet)
12. Participating in random clapping with Tyler and Brenda at the IGDA party
13. Seeing lots of other ladies at the conference – hooray for women in gaming!
14. “If you’re holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
15. “Step 1: Collect underwear. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit.”
16. Experiencing the West Coast for the first time ever
17. Giving away every single business card I brought and having a solid brick of other people’s cards by the end of the week
18. Creating the cliffhanger fist pound with Ryan and Jeff
19. Seeing my friends have a blast being CAs
20. Adding many new interesting books to my bookshelf

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