Archive for April, 2012

Top 10 Schools to study Game Design by the Princeton Review 2012

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Where I teach – SCAD Interactive Design & Game Development makes the top ten list of schools to study game design by the Princeton Review 2012:

http://www.princetonreview.com/game-design-press-release.aspx

Congrats to SCAD Interactive Design & Game Development faculty, students and alumni. Thanks to our industry friends who gave us advice, visited us, sponsored our events, gave workshops, talks and internships to our students. Thanks to our collaborators who helped to expand the horizons of our program. Thanks to those who hired SCAD grads. We will continue to produce first-class talent for the industry.

NerdHerder game trailer

Check out this fun trailer of our new AR mobile game from the AR Game Studio:

http://argamestudio.org

SCAD-Atlanta is the largest Global Game Jam 2012 site in the US

210 registered jammers made SCAD-Atlanta the largest Global Game Jam 2012 site in the US and the third largest in the world.

5 industry presentations/workshops were conducted in the first afternoon of the event.

18 industry/academic leaders in game development participated in the post-jam presentation and judging in the last night of the event.

35 games were created in this 48 hours event and presented to a jury of 18 industry/academic leaders in Georgia in the last night of the event.

Event pictures: https://blog.scad.edu/ggj/media/

Video collage of all the projects:

SCAD-Atlanta GGJ 2012 game projects