Game Education Summit

Game Education Summit August 24-25, 2011 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 will address the development of courses and curricula that will meet the needs of the global video game industry, which is expected to reach $70 billion by 2015. The Game Education Summit is geared towards instructors and ad

ministrators from institutes of higher education that offer game programs or are planning to do so, as well as industry professionals interested in sharing their requirements for graduates of game programs. Whether you're a game educator or working in the video game industry, don't miss this prime opportunity to network, share research and best practices, and foster relationships. Be sure to register online to take advantage of the advance registration discount. Receive further discounts by asking for a promo code from one of the GES sponsors:

GES sponsors have discount codes for $49 off the advance online registration: Autodesk, CRC Press, design3, Elsevier, En...
08/08/2011

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).

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...

07/06/2011

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

05/27/2011

"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

2 days, 5 tracks, 30 sessions, 40+ speakers from game industry & higher ed game programs. http://tinyurl.com/GES-speaker...
05/20/2011

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

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.

05/18/2011

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

04/27/2011

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04/27/2011

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 a...
04/21/2011

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"

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.
04/11/2011

Check our media sponsor, Industry Gamers.

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.
04/05/2011

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

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.
04/01/2011

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

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.
03/31/2011

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

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