Becker Video Game Design

Amy Jo Kim from Shuffle Brain speaks at the Web 2.0 conference

2012 Challenge announced, entries open in Nov. 2011, The Middle School Stream aims to motivate and engage middle school students (grades 5 through 8) in STEM learning, 21st Century Literacy Skills and Systems Thinking by challenging them to design original video games. The High School Stream aims to motivate and engage high school students (grades 9 through 12) in STEM learning, 21st Century Literacy Skills and Systems Thinking by challenging them to design original video games. The Collegiate Stream challenges emerging game developers at the graduate and undergraduate levels to design video games for children (grades pre-K through 8) that teach key STEM concepts and foster an interest in STEM subject areas. The Educator Stream challenges educators to design video games for children (grades pre-K through 12) that teach key STEM concepts and foster an interest in STEM subject areas.

video game created by Pippin Barr, Center for Computer Game Research at IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark of an exhibit hosted at MOMA

CCP Games partners with the fashion industry to design virtual fashion environments and avatars and recently hired a fashion consultant to design outfits for one its games

Becker Journal recap of the MassDiGi panel on 9/15/11

Collaboration between gamers and scientists solves retrovirus enzyme structure, attributed to spatial reasoning inaccessible to computers alone, using game Fold-It, reported in NMSB

The Guildhall hosts graduate studies in game developement and design as well as professional certificates and indie game developing events. Open House happening in October

A student in Kingston University in the UK designs a video game console "examining the possibility of transporting the enjoyment and skills of electronic gaming into the more mundane world of practical electronic devices," according to his professor.

Athens, Ga. - A team of University of Georgia researchers has been awarded a $500,000 small business grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to develop interactive educational software aimed at teaching high school students how the five senses work in the context of the brain and how neurons work.IS3D LLC, a partnership founded in 2010 by eight UGA faculty and staff members, will develop the software with input from high school teachers and students in Atlanta and northeast Georgia.IS3D will design a game based on the five senses, along with a series of interactive case studies that will allow students to explore how neurons work. The software will be tested in classrooms to gauge their effectiveness in helping students learn and whether they improve the students' engagement in science curriculum

"a video game developed at the University of Utah to help children with cancer during their treatment." Results of making connection between medical devices used to encourage healing and video game technology.

Announcement of a $500,000 grant to MassDiGi from Dept. of Commerce's Economic Development Administration University Center

Focus on gaming industry in Austin, TX, this can be useful for game design students looking to enter the game industry, featuring multiple perspectives from people representing game companies, as well as resources for further investigation

"What we want to make sure, when the next wave builds, that people see that there's an infrastructure already in place in Worcester,'' McGovern said. "We want this to be the video gaming corridor of not only the Northeast, but the country.'' Becker College offers an academic program in digital game development that was ranked among the top 10 in the nation by Princeton Review Inc., a test prep and online learning company.

mentions "agreements with seven private video game and interactive media developers.'

Press release from Rep. James McGovern on MassDiGi funding announcement.

A dystopia based on investigation into behavioral economics that envisions video games that are "compelling" and addictive but not fun and rewarding

A hub of career information in the video game industry, including industry news, news stories, career advice, online communities, and other material of interest to aspiring game designers and developers

"We propose a course design that ts a practical game development project into a regular game design lecture course. As this approach requires a consistent structure, our concept proposes an adaption of Scrum that is based on the game development life-cycle: ABC-Sprints consist of three Sprints to iteratively create Alpha, Beta and Completed versions of a game. We present a detailed walkthrough of the course and give results of a formal evaluation. These indicate that ABC-Sprints help students to manage their workload and to increase productivity over time. Consequently, three teams each presented a game at the end of the course that technically exceeded typical outcomes of game projects without lectures. We hence encourage to apply ABC-Sprints to other curricula and provide a set of recommendations."

The city is ruined. Bored and frustrated residents patrol the night streets, windows are smashed, buildings ransacked - there is no will or desire to fix anything or to understand its value. There is no sense of community any more… A year ago, journalist and author Jim Rossignol approached Channel 4's education department with the idea for a game - a game about broken cities.

Appeal of mobile games for women and how the gaming industry considers this potential market is discussed.