Game Education Summit

GES sponsors have discount codes for $49 off the advance online registration: Autodesk, CRC Press, design3, Elsevier, Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA), GameRecruiter, GameSalad, Gamify, IndustryGamers, Unity & Washington Interactive Network (WIN).

Game Education Summit North America | Bringing Industry and Academia Together Whether referring to casual, serious, social or mobile games, gaming is a pervasive and influential force in our culture. The Game Education Summit, now in its fourth year, brings together academics offering game education programs and executives and experts from the video game industry. Sessions wi...

GES rescheduled to August 24-25. Now co-located with Serious Play Conference (on the campus of DigiPen Institute of Technology).

"Balancing Education and the Player: The Creation of a Game Design Program," by Jen Sward, Associate Dean of Game Software Design and Production, DigiPen Institute of Technology

http://gameeducationsummit.com/ges-northamerica-2011-program-event/Balancing+Education+and+the+Playe

2 days, 5 tracks, 30 sessions, 40+ speakers from game industry & higher ed game programs. http://tinyurl.com/GES-speakers

Game Education Summit 2011 - Speakers | Game Education Summit North America Below are are some of the speakers for Game Education Summit 2011, along with their presentation.Please check back often - more speakers are being added frequently.

These GES sponsors have promo codes for $49 off the advance registration fee: DigiPen,ECA, GameSalad, Noesis, Unity.

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Some interesting HR panels just added to the GES program. What large studios and indie studios are looking for in game program graduates.

Check out the session to be presented by Jen Sward of DigiPen (also a GES advisory board member): "Balancing Education and the Player: The Creation of a Game Design Program"

Game Education Summit North America | Bringing Industry and Academia Together Creating any new program is a challenge: finding the balance of general education to specific knowledge to core courses it difficult even for a traditional program such as Computer Science or Liberal Arts. For creating a program for the game industry, we have the additional challenge of balancing

Check our media sponsor, Industry Gamers.

IndustryGamers The research firm expects 3DS sales to remain strong, but they don't believe the new handheld will have the same success as the DS.

Check out the Program for GES... more sessions are being added each week.

Game Education Summit North America | Bringing Industry and Academia Together Components of a New Masters Program: Incubator, Entrepreneurship, Game Studio Partnerships and Hitting the Ground Running

Plan now to attend the fourth annual GES on June 22-23, 2011.

Welcome | Game Education Summit North America We are excited to announce that in 2011 the Game Education Summit will be coming to the Digipen Institute of Technology in Redmond, Washington.

GES will be held this year at the DigiPen campus in Redmond, WA.