[game_edu] Where to post academic job offers?

[Tim Langdell]

I would echo what Brenda said - I think there is such a shortage of good game designers that any good designer who decides to go into academe should be easily able to keep one foot in commercial game design. Certainly, I've had some of my most fruitful and exciting design projects since I became an academic. I personally find that teaching feeds my inspiration for design and vice versa.

Tim

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Tim Langdell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Lead Faculty, MFA in Videogame Production & Design
Department of Media
School of Media & Communication
National University 
tlangdell at nu.edu

CEO, EDGE Games

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brenda Brathwaite 
  To: IGDA Game Education Listserv 
  Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:32 PM
  Subject: Re: [game_edu] Where to post academic job offers?


  Erin - 

  Interesting you bring up the worry about not being able to design professionally due to teaching. I had that *exact* worry, and deliberated over it a lot before making the leap. I expected my days of commercial game dev were over, but that I might get some consulting work every now and again.

  Wow - did I underestimate the need for designers! In the two years I've been teaching, I've worked on 2 commercial titles in a design role (both AAA console titles) as well as multiple funky projects that I couldn't have worked on otherwise (some facebook stuff, lots of non-digital work, OneHundredDogs, etc.). All told - and in all seriousness - I was out of the industry for 11 hours before I got my first consulting gig. 

  Brenda

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  Brenda Brathwaite, Game Designer and Professor
  Savannah College of Art and Design

  blog: bbrathwaite.wordpress.com





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