The Acagamic

“Tell me and I for­get. Teach me and I remem­ber. Involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin

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Student Supervision

• The Language of Transitions/Between Black and White – The Importance of Cutscene Transitions in Digital Games. (Olson & Löfgren). Master’s Thesis Supervisor. (BTH)
• A light­weight pro­gram­ming frame­work for psy­chophys­i­o­log­i­cal data analy­sis of game play behav­ior and player pro­fil­ing (D. Sasse). Master’s Thesis Supervisor. (BTH)
• Developing a psy­chophys­i­o­log­i­cal log­ging sys­tem for use in a dig­i­tal game mod­i­fi­ca­tion (S. Stellmach). Internship Advisor. (BTH)
• Development of a scal­able net­work archi­tec­ture for a dis­trib­uted sys­tem of vir­tual agents (J. Fietz). Master’s Thesis Advisor. (Uni Magdeburg)
• Project plan­ning in game devel­op­ment using Phenomics “Spellforce II” as an exam­ple (N. Koch). Master’s Thesis Advisor. (Uni Magdeburg)
• Evaluation of game engines for HBR sce­nar­ios (D. Gottschlag). Internship Advisor. (Uni Magdeburg)
• Design and Development of Learning Games as part of a Collaboration Project with the FGG Elbe (M. Freisleben). Internship Advisor. (Uni Magdeburg)
• Founded the Acagamics, an IGDA stu­dent club at Magdeburg University

Teaching

• Guest lec­tures in both CMPT 106 (Design and Construction of Games and Interactive Systems) and CMPT 306 (Game Mechanics) at the University of Saskatchewan
• Game Systems Engineering (BTH) (see also Cuball game, some slides)
• Introduction to Game Development (Uni Magdeburg)
• Seminar Serious Games (Uni Magdeburg)
• Game Design (Uni Magdeburg)
• COSC360 — Computer Game Design (Uni Otago)