[game_edu] Where to post academic job offers?

[Erin Hoffman]

I had the same question, Mark. I've even seen "game design" taught by
"graphic designers" in some places, which is pretty appalling.

--Erin

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Mark Baldwin <mark at baldwinconsulting.org>
wrote:


> Going off on a tangent here, but no one else has asked this, and I'm

> curious.  You stated you were looking for a professor of game design, but

> it

> was it is an artist/animator position.  This seems contradictory to me.

> While art skills are valuable to the game designer, they certainly are not

> required, and game design really uses other creative skills much more

> extensively.  Game design is generally not an artistic skill.  From my

> experience (25 years in industry as a designer), at least 80% of all game

> designers do not have any real experience as artist or animators.   Does

> anyone have a contradictory experience?

>

> Cheers,

> Mark

>

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: game_edu-bounces at igda.org [mailto:game_edu-bounces at igda.org] On

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> Of Sean Luke

> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:20 PM

> To: game_edu at igda.org

> Subject: [game_edu] Where to post academic job offers?

>

> GMU's college of visual and performing arts is soliciting for a term

> assistant professorship in computer game design.  It's an artist/

> animator/etc. position.  I am affiliated with the solicitation

> committee, but as a computer science professor rather than an artist,

> I personally was wondering where the best venues would be to solicit

> an artist in this slot.  In the CS world there are standard locations

> for placing ads for professorships.  Any guidance on the artist side

> of things for a budding program?

>

> Sean Luke

> Department of Computer Science

> George Mason University

>

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