[game_edu] Where to post academic job offers?

[Roberts, Scott]

We should be careful in limiting people due to categories.  It isn't as if the skills of artists/designers (creative problem solving) preclude someone from being a game designer.  What's important is that the teacher should have experience in game design, but game designers can come from any background, and they do.

The obvious example is Miyamoto.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Miyamoto#Early_life

I spend a good amount of my time convincing game programmers that they can do visual design, so anything's possible. J

Scott


From: game_edu-bounces at igda.org [mailto:game_edu-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Erin Hoffman
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:47 PM
To: IGDA Game Education Listserv
Subject: Re: [game_edu] Where to post academic job offers?

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<mailto: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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From: game_edu-bounces at igda.org<mailto:game_edu-bounces at igda.org> [mailto:game_edu-bounces at igda.org<mailto:game_edu-bounces at igda.org>] On Behalf
Of Sean Luke
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:20 PM
To: game_edu at igda.org<mailto: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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