Ultimate Game Design : Building game worlds

A P P E N D I X A
� ed2go (www.ed2go.com) I teach online game industry courses to students
here regularly and have several courses oriented specifically towards game
design presently in development.
� Full Sail (www.fullsail.com) Full Sail offers trade-oriented coursework
in game development.
� Art Institutes International (www.aii.edu) Most of the Art Institute
campuses located across the U.S. now offer game development courses.
It’s important to point out that game design as a topic of investigation and exploration
is also becoming part of conventional curricula (undergraduate and graduate
level) at many prestigious universities including Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Carnegie-Mellon University,
and Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), among others.
E VENTS
The electronic gaming industry has several major industry events per year, the biggest
of which are listed here:
� Electronic Entertainment Exposition, or E3 (www.e3expo.com) The leading
U.S.-based annual industry trade show.
� The Game Developers Conference (www.gdconf.com) The Independent
Games Festival held each year at the GDC is a great way to showcase your
independent game work and have it seen by developers and publishers from
around the globe.
� SIGGRAPH (www.siggraph.org) The largest annual gathering of computer
graphics and graphics technology companies. A great way to learn more
about cutting-edge graphics technologies.
� Electronic Consumer Trade Show (www.ects.com) Europe’s premier
interactive industry trade show.
� MILIA (www.milia.com) An international game content event held in
Cannes, France.
INDUSTRY MAGAZINE
Game Developer magazine (www.gdmag.com) is a must read. I suggest reading
the “Post-mortems” offered in every issue very carefully. There are plenty of great
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