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GDC 2007 Day One Roundup

Sunday, March 4

After a horribly long flight through Sweden, Denmark and Germany, we finally reached San Francisco Sunday night after spending more than a day in total for all traveling. While all the flights went very smooth in terms of connections, it still was a canned feeling especially on the flight to the US, were [...]

Game Research - Getting started 2006

As I have been browsing the usual places on the web to retrieve information about game education and research, I came across a few places that sound interesting enough to publish future academic research findings there. This list is not complete, but rather my first attempt on finding good places for publications on game research. [...]

A game development Master's thesis: Facilitating the Education of Game Development

A game development Master’s thesis: Facilitating the Education of Game Development

I recently finished writing my Master’s thesis (German Diplomarbeit) on “Facilitating the Education of Game Development”. It has taken me half a year to gather information from game industry sources (such as Bob Bates, Bruce Shelley, Jochen Hamma, or David A. Smith), academic papers and game development books to come up with a small [...]