Becker Video Game Design

Report of a session from the Connected Health Symposium hosted by Partners Healthcare in Boston this week

Quotes Becker's Timothy Loew saying there are 24 schools offering video game design courses

Discusses Turtle Boy Games, a venture to help game design students enter the game industry, in the context of the Mass Digi and statewide efforts to increase collaboration between game companies and academia to create industry and job growth.

Collaboration between RIT and Microsoft Research called Just Press Play

Notng a Pew study showing 97 percent of adolescents playing video games, this article notes a correlation between developing STEM skills and video game design

Air Force Research Agency in support of Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)

Incubator at a Canadian college

All Things Considered interview with scientists and makers of FoldIt used to solve protein structure problem

Aimed at students who already hold degrees in other fields such as arts or computer science

A journal recently launched by Mary Ann Liebert publishers features peer-reviewed articles on the application of video games to health management

Editorial by Michael Levine and Timothy Loew: "Retooling our education engine to produce better outcomes will drive our ability to compete in a complex, networked world powered by technology and efficiency. Transitioning to the digital age will define our children's future career prospects in the knowledge-based economy of 21st century."

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

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.

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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.

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