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A week teaching at Instituto Superior Técnico
Porto Salvo, PortugalA couple of years back I met a cool professor named Katherine Isbister, who was studying social interfaces at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. At some point, Katherine got a...
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Workshops at Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin, IrelandFor the third year in a row I went to Dublin, twice, to give game design workshops at the Dublin Institute of Technology. They invite high school students in and give them a pitch about...
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Keynote at Swansea Animation Days... again.
Swansea, WalesFor the second time, I had the privilege of delivering the opening keynote at the Swansea ANimation Days festival -- at least, the Game Days part of it, which comes first. The last time I...
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Another workshop at FITA.
Angoulême, FranceI went back again this year to the International Forum on Animation Technologies, which in French has the acronym FITA. It was their tenth year, so they were justifiably proud of all...
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Back to the NHL (not the National Hockey League!) again.
Leeuwarden, NetherlandsI went back to the Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden for more meetings with the students there and to talk about how I can help the program. Along the way I learned something I...
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A quick trip to the University of Gotland
Visby, SwedenLast summer I went to Visby to serve as a juror at the Gotland Game Awards, hosted by the University of Gotland. We've been talking about setting up a more permanent arrangement, in which...
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A Visit with Michael Stenmark
Enhörna, SwedenMichael Stenmark was one of my very first clients when I started consulting, and brought me up to Stockholm to visit his company, Hidden Dinosaur. A lot has changed for both of us since...
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I won a contest at Develop!
Brighton, UKSo about two weeks before Develop, Susan Marshall, the organizer, wrote and asked me if I would come and speak, because one of her speakers had cancelled on her. I wasn't planning on going...
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Fundamentals of Game Design 2nd Edition is on the presses!
Yesterday I finished work on the next edition of my game design textbook, Fundamentals of Game Design, Second Edition. It has been a long march, but I got it done in time for a September 15th...
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The Second G-Ameland Festival!
Ameland, The NetherlandsThis year I again attended the G-Ameland Festival, a student game design jam held on the island of Ameland, off the north coast of Holland. It's organized by the Northern...
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Fall Colors and Unusual Art Styles on Gotland
Visby, SwedenThis was my first official time teaching in my new post as a part-time professor at the University of Gotland. The university put me up in a very convenient apartment right off the town...
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My First Trip to India
Hyderabad, IndiaAt the Game Developers' conference earlier this year, I was passing through my hotel lobby on my way to the Dutch game developers' party with some friends (unlimited free Heineken!),...
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Faculty Training at Norco College
Norco, California, USAA few months ago I got a message from Judy Perry, who's head of the new game program at the Norco campus of Riverside Community College in southern California. RCC was about to...
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GDC 2010!
San Francisco, California, USAThis was my 21st Game Developers' Conference. I started going in 1990, and I've been to every one since.It was a bit of a blur this year, combining social, networking,...
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The Great Indian Game Design Workshop Tour
Mumbai, Bangalore, and Chennai, IndiaEveryone in the entertainment business has, or should have, heard of Bollywood—the great Indian film industry located in and around Mumbai, or Bombay as it was...
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European Odyssey
Visby - Stockholm - Tidaholm - Copenhagen - Bremen - Leeuwarden - Amsterdam - Brussels - LondonIt began with a trip to Visby, the largest town on the island of Gotland, off the Swedish coast in the...
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Back in 2003 I was invited to deliver a keynote address at a conference at the University of Teesside in Middlesbrough, England. It was called COSIGN, for Computational Semiotics on Games and New...
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G-Ameland nearly triples in size!
Ameland, The NetherlandsThis was the third G-Ameland game development festival for Dutch and Belgian students (and more countries next year, we hope). The last couple of years there were 70 to 80...
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Animex and a New Workshop for Animex Pro!
Middlesbrough and Newcastle, UKMy friend and colleague Gabby Kent invited me to come speak at the Animex animation festival again this year, as I have several times in the past. Animex takes place at...
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