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Kim explains that you have to be a gamer in order to make games and shows a quick day in the life of a game designer

This would be perfect if it was subtitled.

This is a great video i liked it for my profession.

Extra Credits are a community of game designer that really care about the game industry and I respect them highly for, and that is why I thought I would share one of there videos that I watched when I first found them.

Video game designer Jane McGonigal argues that games are not a waste of time. In fact, she argues, "we need to look at what games are doing for gamers, the skills that we're developing, the relationships that we're forming, the heroic qualities that we get to practice every time we play, like resilience, like perseverance, and grit, and determination, like having epic ambitions and the ability to work with other players, sometimes thousands of other players at the same time."

When game designer Jane McGonigal found herself bedridden and suicidal following a severe concussion, she had a fascinating idea for how to get better. She dove into the scientific research and created the healing game, SuperBetter. In this moving talk, McGonigal explains how a game can boost resilience -- and promises to add 7.5 minutes to your life.

Games are invading the real world -- and the runaway popularity of Farmville and Guitar Hero is just the beginning, says Jesse Schell. At the DICE Summit, he makes a startling prediction: a future where 1-ups and experience points break "out of the box" and into every part of our daily lives.

Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.

Game designer David Perry says tomorrow's videogames will be more than mere fun to the next generation of gamers. They'll be lush, complex, emotional experiences -- more involving and meaningful to some than real life. With an excerpt from Michael Highland's film "As Real as Your Life."

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ODT Industry Websites

Research tool for the Animation Industry 

This is a big database of awesome knowledge! If you go to the right of the page you'll see a pink link that says "all topics", you can filter the videos to start to narrow down to what you need for this assignment, which admittedly might not help much since the terms are somewhat "team building business-y". Or, you can try going up to the top right where the magnifying glass icon is and doing a search for your degree and from there filter it further by videos. You may also want to hang onto this website for other assignments like 2.1 Industry Growth or even 3.0 Networking Plan (events, mentors, etc.). "The 99U provides actionable insights on productivity, organization, and leadership to help creatives people push ideas forward."