ACADEMIC CLIENTS
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USA – Canada – England – Scotland – Ireland Northern Ireland – France – Germany – Sweden Denmark – Finland – Portugal – Spain New Zealand
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More than a client, Teesside is my academic home. I am honored to have been appointed a Visiting Fellow to its prestigious School of Computing and Mathematics.
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USA |
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology needs no introduction. I gave a lecture on interactive narratives there in the spring of 2005.
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Stanford University is my alma mater, and about 14 years after I graduated, I went back there to deliver a keynote at the very first AAAI Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Entertainment.
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I spoke about interactive storytelling to the graduate colloquium at Georgia Tech during my lecture tour in October of 2006.
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I gave a lecture on emerging issues in game design at the University of California’s Santa Cruz campus in the fall of 2006.
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 The Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University invited me to come and give a game design workshop to their highly regarded graduate program.
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I stopped in at Rutgers for a day on my 2005 lecture tour to give them two lectures and a 4-hour game design workshop.
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is a justly-famous technical school in upstate New York. I participated in a two-day Game Studies Symposium and taught a design workshop.
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Rochester Institute of Technology is in New York State, across Lake Ontario from Toronto. I gave a lecture to the students and a game design workshop... to the faculty!
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As part of a big lecture tour in
2005, I went to Cornell University and gave two lectures and a game design workshop.
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The University of Illinois Computer Science department is one of the most famous in the world, and so was the home of the fictitous HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A
Space Odyssey. I gave a lecture there and another one to the Women in Math, Science, and Engineering dorm.
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For part of my Canadian workshop tour, I dropped
down to Michigan State and did a workshop for students from all over the region. Some great ideas came out of this one. I went back there for the FuturePlay conference in 2005, where I gave a keynote and sat on a panel about sex and gender in games.
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DeVry is a career
-oriented university with campuses all over the United States. I did a pair of game design workshops at the Arlington, VA campus in 2007.
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DePaul is a private university in Chicago with a special mission to serve
immigrants to the United States. I did a game design workshop there in 2005.
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At the invitation of the students, I visited Worcester Polytechnic Institute after the Game Developers’ Conference in 2005, met with
the faculty to discuss their curriculum, and gave a lecture.
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I gave a 90-minute mini-workshop to students at Ithaca College, as part of my 2005 East Coast Lecture Tour.
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College of DuPage is an enormous community college located in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Instructor Sally Mullan asked me to come and give a pair of game design workshops to her classes.
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Some of the best-prepared students I ever met were at Full Sail. They invited me to give them a workshop as part of my East Coast lecture tour, October 2005.
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Collins College is a small, but growing, private school in Tempe, Arizona that teaches animation, game design, and other new media subjects. I was the commencement speaker at their graduation in the spring of 2005.
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I wrote an entire college-level game design course for the Art Institute Online. Its number is GAD312, “Game Design and Game Play.” Not surprisingly, Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design is the textbook.
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Canada |
A small college in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, but they run the growing Computer
Game Technology conference in Toronto. I’ve taught with them twice.
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The Institut National de l’Image et du Son (The National Institute for Pictures and Sound) is a
professional training organization for film, television, and now video games, located in Montreal.I did multi-day corporate training there for a couple of different companies.
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England |
One of the oldest and most famous universities in the world. I was invited to give a lecture to a workshop on interactive narratives by the Cambridge University Moving Image Studio.
Liverpool John Moores University. They asked me to be a keynote at a game symposium they held. I was pleased to address the new student chapter of the IGDA at Lincoln. Had a
good time in the pub afterwards, too.
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This new laboratory is associated with De Montfort University in Leicester. They invited me to give a
keynote lecture to one of their seminars on narrative in new media.
The University Campus Suffolk is in Ipswich. I went there for a day to review the students’ projects and give them a lecture.
Another new university, formerly a polytechnic. I gave a long lecture on the future of the industry to a big group of students.
I went down to Portsmouth for a day to give a lecture on interactive narrative to the animation students.
The University of Bradford has named a game design award after me! I went up there to
judge the entrants in the Department of Electronic Imaging and Media Communications.
I’ve given game design workshops at the Digital Knowledge Exchange of Doncaster College twice, once to the staff and and some professionals, and once to the students.
One gig sometimes generates another. During my design workshop at Doncaster College (above), one of the participants invited me to do the same at Rotherham College as well. |
Scotland
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One of my first-ever teaching gigs. I went up for a day and gave a lecture to their International Centre for Computer Games and Virtual Entertainment (IC-CAVE). I went back in 2005 to do a keynote at the
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Northern Ireland |
I gave workshops to two groups of students at the Magee Campus of the University of Ulster, in Derry. I’m also now a visiting professor there.
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Ireland |
Trinity College (which is effectively the University of Dublin) is the oldest and most prestigious institution in Ireland. I gave a game design workshop to a group of multimedia students there.
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I give workshops for
prospective students at the Dublin Institute of Technology. One was so popular that we had to schedule a second one just to handle all the participants.
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The Waterford Institute of Technology had me come over to give a game design workshop.
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Dun Laoghaire is pronounced “Dunleary.” This is the Institute for Art, Design, and Technology. I gave a design
workshop and met with them to discuss ideas about establishing a game program.
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France |
The National School for Games
and Interactive Digital Media is located in Angouleme, southwestern France. I went to give a couple of lectures during their Video Game Workshops event.
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Germany |
This organization in Berlin assembles teachers and students from all over Europe to study new media issues. I’ve taught there twice.
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Sagasnet.de is an organized dedicated to training people to write for new media—video games, multimedia, interactive television, and so on. Ragnar Tørnquist (Funcom) and I taught a five-day workshop on interactive narrative.
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A dedicated game development training school in Berlin. I gave a public lecture on the industry and the academy, and a workshop.
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Sweden |
The University of Stockholm hosted a conference on computer games in schools, and I went and gave them a lecture.
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Skövde (pronouced “khuvde”) is a small town in the middle of Sweden, with its own technical school. I’ve been there twice, once to give a workshop and once to teach for a whole week.
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Powerhouse is a media training institute in Kramfors, far up along the Baltic coast, in an area of particular natural beauty. I went there to give a game design workshop.
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The Norrköping (pronounced “norshurping”) campus of Linköping University. I’ve been there twice:once for a conference and once to give a game design workshop.
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Gotland is a historically important island in the Baltic between Sweden and Latvia. The whole place only has 50,000 inhabitants, but even so, the technical school needed a game design workshop. I was delighted to go.
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Blekinge is a region of southern Sweden; this is
the technical school at Karlshamn. I went to particpate in a conference/contest/party there.
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Denmark |
I was invited to give a lecture at the prestigious new IT University of Copenhagen, where many of the luminaries in the field of ludology now work.
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The Interactive Media and Marketing Academy now occupies the former headquarters of a shipyard in Nakskov, Denmark. Steel has given way to high tech. I gave their students a game design workshop in October of 2004, and my 5-day narrative workshop in November 2006.
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Finland |
My first visit to Finland in nearly 30 years! I was last there in 1968, and don’t remember much about it. This time I went to give a narrative game design
workhop at the University of Art and Design.
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Spain |
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in
Barcelona. The incomparable Daniel Sanchez-Crespo Dalmau invited me to come and give several lectures.
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Portugal |
Universidade Lusófona is in Lisbon, in a very pretty location. I went to give a four-day workshop on interactive storytelling.
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New Zealand |
The University of Otago, in Dunedin on the South Island, invited me to the first-ever game conference down there. I gave a keynote address and a workshop.
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