[game_edu] Doctorate in Game Design / Development

Sheldon, Lee clsheldo at indiana.edu
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Also, the MFA does not necessarily need to be in game design to get a job teaching game design. However I would expect real world experience in lieu of that, if I were hiring.

One other point: some institutions require a PhD and will not accept an MFA as an equivalent when hiring. Another IU campus just announced a tenure-track job opening that stressed both research and production as requirements and stressed that candidates must have a PhD. Finding PhDs in games with decent production experience is not an easy task.

Lee

Lee Sheldon
Assistant Professor
Department of Telecommunications
Indiana University
www.anti-linearlogic.com
Character Development and Storytelling for Games (Cengage/Thomson Learning)
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Today's Topics:

1. Re: IGDA Offers Health Insurance /Education Institutional
Membership (Susan Gold)
2. IE2009: Registrations Open for the Australasian Interactive
Entertainment Conference Dec 17-19 2009 (Malcolm Ryan)
3. Doctorate in Game Design / Development (Marc Hess (225))
4. Re: Doctorate in Game Design / Development (Susan Gold)
5. Re: Doctorate in Game Design / Development (Ian Schreiber)

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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:26:23 -0500
From: Susan Gold <goldfile at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [game_edu] IGDA Offers Health Insurance /Education
Institutional Membership
To: IGDA Game Education Listserv <game_edu at igda.org>
Cc: Joda Sapp <jsapp at TALLEY.com>
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Steve,
I don't think we have put anything on the website as of yet for the
new membership program. I would suggest that you contact Joda Sapp - jsapp at TALLEY.com
and tell him you want info on the institutional partner memberships.
I copied him on this email so you or anyone who has questions about
the institutional partner program can contact him directly. You can
also ask him about the GDC discount. I am not sure why that has not
been updated on the web, but the $75 off is really nice.

BTW, We are going to have a really great Education Summit this year, I
will announce details soon, the theme is on collaboration. Our
keynotes will be Kelle Santiago from thatvideogamecompany makers of
Flower and Flow on Tuesday. And on Wednesday, Jeremah Slaczka & Marius
Falhbusch from 5th Cell makers of Scribblenauts will headline. GDC
this year will have the summits on Tuesday/Wednesday and the
conference will go through Saturday. GDC is March 9-13, 2010.

I have set aside a block of rooms at $109+tax

Susan

On Nov 18, 2009, at 11:57 AM, steve graham wrote:

> Susan,

>

> I was trying to find a description of the educational institutional

> memberships on the IGDA website and was unable to. I believe I've

> persuaded DSU to join. However, I'll need some official page/

> application specifying the benefits. Could you tell me where to find

> it?

>

> In a similar vein, the IGDA newsletter which just came out states

> that IGDA members receive $75 off GDC conference passes. However,

> when I visited the website, I was unable to find the specifics.

>

> I realize, of course, that the website isn't your responsibility.

> But I thought you might know the answers to these questions, and I

> expect that there may be others wondering the same things.

>

> Thanks for any help!

>

> cheers,

> skg

>

> Susan Gold wrote:

>> The IGDA is really trying to give members value for their

>> membership (normally $48 USD), with discounts for books and

>> conferences. Now we are going one step further by adding health

>> insurance. We also have another big announcement educational

>> institutional memberships. This membership program is $500 - which

>> gives you partnership with the IGDA for the school and then 50% off

>> membership fees for all faculty and students. That would make it

>> $24 per faculty member, $15 per student. We are working to create

>> additional value to educational members as well and I will have

>> more to share on that in short order.

>>

>> The big news on the website is that the IGDA is going to have Group

>> Medical Insurance.

>> http://www.igda.org/board-blog/igda-starts-healthcare-program

>>

>> "This plan is currently available for US members only. Most of our

>> non-US members live in countries with nationalized health care

>> systems so there is less need, or value in making this available to

>> members in those countries. Following a successful launch of the

>> program in the US, we would be interested in looking into this for

>> other countries. If you would like to help with that process please

>> let us know."

>>

>>

>> Susan

>> --

>> /*Susan Gold*/

>> In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!

>> - J. G. Ballard

>>

>>

>>

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> --

> steve graham

> associate professor

> computer game design

> dakota state university

> skg at dsu.edu

> 605-480-6603

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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:05:04 +1100
From: Malcolm Ryan <malcolmr at cse.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: [game_edu] IE2009: Registrations Open for the Australasian
Interactive Entertainment Conference Dec 17-19 2009
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REMINDER: Registration is open for the 2009 Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (IE2009).

IE is a cross-disciplinary conference that brings together researchers from artificial intelligence, audio, cognitive science, cultural studies, drama, HCI, interactive media, media studies, psychology, computer graphics, as well as researchers from other disciplines working on new interactive entertainment specific technologies or providing critical analysis of games and interactive environments.

This year it will be taking place on December 17-19 at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia.

Registation costs are as follows:

Full Student
Before 15/11 (Early) $400 $200
15/11 - 13/12 (Standard): $600 $300
After 13/12 (Late): $800 $400

Online registration is available at: http://ieconference.org/ie2009/?page_id=27

Features of this year's conference include guest addresses from Magy Seif El-Nasr (School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University), Ulrike Spierling (University of Applied Sciences Erfurt) and Jane Turner (Australian CRC for Interaction Design), a Fibreculture panel hosted by Chris Chesher, plus demonstrations of the iCinema 360 degree interactive cinema facility and dinner by the beautiful Coogee Beach.

For more information, see the conference website at:

http://ieconference.org/ie2009

List of accepted papers:
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Chris Chesher. Converging mediations of space in computer games and
spatial navigation systems

Brigid Costello and Ernest Edmonds. A Tool for Characterizing the
Experience of Play

Damian Hills. assimilate: Situated Collaborative Storytelling System

Michael Hitchens. BJ?s Family: A Survey of First Person Shooters and
their Avatars

Darshana Jayemanne and Jane Felstead. Asian Babe vs. Dragon Lady

Younbo Jung, Jing Li Koay, Janissa Ng, Gladys Wong and Kwan Min Lee.
Games for a Better Life: Effects of Playing Wii Games on the
Well-Being of Seniors in a Long-Term Care Facility

Jing Liu and Manolya Kavakli. A survey of Speech-Hand Gesture
Recognition for the Development of Multimodal Interfaces in Computer
Games

Keith Nesbitt, Ken Sutton, Joshua Wilson and Geoffrey Hookham.
Improving Player Spatial Abilities for 3D Challenges

Bronwin Patrickson. PLAI: Staged Encounters in Computer-mediated Environments

Bram Pellens, Frederic Kleinermann and Olga De Troyer. A Development
Environment using Behavior Patterns to Facilitate Building 3D/VR
Applications

Debbie Richards and John Porte. Developing an Agent-Based Training
Simulation using Game and Virtual Reality Software: Experience Report.

Malcolm Ryan. Illuminati: The Game of Conspiracy ? A Close Reading

Jeff Sinclair, Philip Hingston and Martin Masek. Exergame development
using the dual flow model.

Ulrike Spierling. Models for Interactive Narrative Actions

Rowan Tulloch. Ludic Dystopias: Power, Politics and Play

Anthony Youssef and Scot Leveless. Thoughts on Adjusting Perceived
Difficulty in Games

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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:53:37 -0500
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Subject: [game_edu] Doctorate in Game Design / Development
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Greetings,

Is anyone aware or familiar with any such degree offering? Especially one that is offered almost exclusively online or can be taken remotely? Or perhaps there are institutions that offer the flexibility for the student to "create" the degree? If not specifically game design and/or development, then perhaps something related to interactive design and/or development?

Thank you,

Marc

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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:58:38 -0500
From: Susan Gold <goldfile at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [game_edu] Doctorate in Game Design / Development
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There are only 3 PhD programs that I am aware of - 1) IT Copenhagen;
2) University of Teeside; 3) University of Utrecht.

I believe all of them are research degrees. I am pretty sure you don't
have to be on campus to do the work, but you will have to contact them
directly.

Susan

On Nov 25, 2009, at 8:53 AM, Marc Hess (225) wrote:

> Greetings,

>

> Is anyone aware or familiar with any such degree offering?

> Especially one that is offered almost exclusively online or can be

> taken remotely? Or perhaps there are institutions that offer the

> flexibility for the student to "create" the degree? If not

> specifically game design and/or development, then perhaps something

> related to interactive design and/or development?

>

> Thank you,

>

> Marc

>

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Susan Gold
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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:40:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Ian Schreiber <ai864 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [game_edu] Doctorate in Game Design / Development
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I'll also point out that if you are simply looking for a terminal degree in the field, there are some MFA programs out there as well (I know SCAD offers one, for example). Depending on where you are, that can stand in as the equivalent of a PhD if you just need the academic credentials.

- Ian

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There are only 3 PhD programs that I am aware of - 1) IT Copenhagen; 2) University of Teeside; 3) University of Utrecht.

I believe all of them are research degrees. I am pretty sure you don't have to be on campus to do the work, but you will have to contact them directly.

Susan

On Nov 25, 2009, at 8:53 AM, Marc Hess (225) wrote:

Greetings,

>

>Is anyone aware or familiar with any such degree offering? Especially one that is offered almost exclusively online or can be taken remotely? Or perhaps there are institutions that offer the flexibility for the student to "create" the degree? If not specifically game design and/or development, then perhaps something related to interactive design and/or development?

>

>Thank you,

>

>Marc

>

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