Prattle continues the investigation into game design academia, this time from a professor’s perspective. Jeff Howard of Dakota State University weighs in with the values he seeks to impart to his students, and a look at his program’s efforts to prepare the next generation of designers through an intense focus on teamwork and communication skills.
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Links:
- DesigningQuests.com – Jeff Howard’s site
- Dakota State University (DSU)
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Game Design at DSU
- Skype is awesome for voice chat. (It’s what we use to produce Prattle, too!)
- 360 evaluation
- 3DS MAX
- Vicissitude is an awesome word.
- Horror Video Games: Essays on the Fusion of Fear and Play (read it on Google books)
- Nanocon looks to be a sublimely horrific experience
- Fatal Frame
- Alone in the Dark is potentially “patient 0″ of survival horror.
- Agile development (aka iterative design)
- Jesse Schell’s book ‘Art of Game Design’ (course lit at DSU)
- Game Design Workshop (textbook)
- Fundamentals of Game Design (textbook)
- Captain Jack Sparrow
- Game Maker is good for prototypes
- Unreal Development Kit (UDK)
- This is not how I remember the “see spot run” series.
- MIT Gambit Lab
- Matthew Weise’s blog Outside Your Heaven
- Roll for Initiative
- Scaleform lets you put Flash into 3D games.
- Shadow of the Colossus and Ico are getting re-released on PS3 (maybe they will sell better this time?)
- God of War sells really well
- Assassin’s Creed
- Amnesia is on Steam. Worth playing.
- Holy Grail? Already got one!
- Tripartite is another awesome word.
- Go play Silent Hill 2. (no really, do it)
- Dark Souls carries on the tradition of Demon’s Souls
- Shadow Towers Abyss
- EA Widows
- Imagineers
- The Matrix is a System
- Serenity Prayer (speaking of things you cannot change…)
- Chris’s Survival Horror Quest
- Bernard Perron is into some creepy stuff
- Email your abstracts for the Survival Horror conference to Jeff: jeffrey.howard[at]dsu.edu
