[game_edu] IGDA board candidates

[Casey O'Donnell]

I tend to come at it from the other direction. Explaining to people
that a "Game Developer" can actually mean many things. The assumption
that "developers" are engineers has more to do with the broad
misunderstanding that games are only made by engineers. While WE know
that it takes designers, artists (of many shapes and sizes),
engineers, managers (producers, project managers, ...), I tend to
explain to people that these are all game development jobs.

Part of it comes from "software developers" tending to mean "software
engineers." But I tend to try and reclaim the term than to redefine
it. I understand the goal, but I hate to jettison the word.

Best.
Casey

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Tim Langdell <langdell at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the underlying point here has some merit -- the IGDA has spead it

> wings far beyond just the narrow defintion of what we used to think of as a

> 'game developer' to include anyone involved in the creation / making /

> production / etc of games. So there is at least some merit in considering a

> name change to the Association at some point, perhaps. Then again, IGDA has

> become a strong brand in itself with a clear identity.

>



-- 
Casey O'Donnell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Telecommunications
Grady College, University of Georgia

http://www.caseyodonnell.org