Tag: GAMEDESIGN

President Obama knows exactly how to get American students interested in math and science: video games. As Game Informer reports, Obama has now launched a new program called the National STEM Video Game Challenge, a competition that encourages America's students to use their math, science and engineering skills to design video games. The event, which is being held by the Joan Ganz Cooney ...

We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried: Lee Sheldon, a teacher of game design in Indiana, bases his entire teaching philosophy on the online game, 'World of Warcraft.' The nerdy professor coordinates several game design courses at Indiana University, and has now overhauled the grading system of his classes in an effort to better motivate students. Instead of traditional grades, IU game ...

Over the weekend, while you slept away your work week, only to wake for the occasional bowl of Frosted Flakes, students at New York City's Parsons School of Design slaved away for 24 continuous hours with the upcoming PlayStation3 game, 'LittleBigPlanet.' The challenge -- put to them by Sony's marketing department -- was to create a level from scratch, using the game's extensive object and ...