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Game Conference Planning 2008

After receiving a travel budget from my University for the first time, I came to sit down and have a look at potentially interesting conferences for the young game academics among us. Now, with so many different focus areas within games your planning might differ. Nevertheless, I though it would be nice to share some [...]

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 [...]