Tag: GDC09

  • GDC09: Post-McGonigal Reflections and Graduate Students

    Jordan Lynn, my graduate student and IGDA GDC Scholarship recipient, and I were chatting after todays sessions. I had just come from Jane McGonigal’s GDC Education Summit keynote, where a question that Celia Pearce asked had stuck with me. That question was, why haven’t developers made revolutionary designs that challenge, change, and shift human experience towards…

  • GDC09: Pitching myAIG

    GDC 2009 started off with a bang for me at the IGDA Education Summit’s Game Design Improv with Brenda Brathwaite at the helm and Ian Schreiber and Charles Shami backing her up on the floor. For two hours I had the opportunity to swap places with what I usually force my students to do, design…