Well Played 2.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning - OpenLibra

curricula and gaming conferences. For the past seven years he has been a
featured monthly writer for International Game Developers Association,
where he writes about the influence of gaming on culture in his column
Culture Clash (www.igda.org/culture-clash). Matt also owns and maintains
the popular gaming and entertainment website Tap-Repeatedly
(http://tap-repeatedly.com), and works as an e-Learning developer,
helping corporations bring games-based training to life. He lives in
Michigan. Reach him at steerpike@tap-repeatedly.com.
Bobby Schweizer
Bobby Schweizer is a doctoral student in the Digital Media program at
the Georgia Institute of Technology. He coordinates the Games and
Spaces Research Group and studies videogames, theme parks, boardwalks,
cities, and architecture. Bobby co-authored _Newsgames: Journalism
at Play_ with Ian Bogost and Simon Ferrari.
John Sharp
John Sharp is an interaction designer, game designer, art historian and
educator. He has been involved in the creation and study of art and
design for twenty years. John’s design work is focused on social network
games, artgames and non-digital games. His current research is focused
on game design curriculum for after-school programs, the artgames
movement, the history of play, and the early history of computer and
video games.
John is a professor in the Interactive Design & Game Development department
and the Art History department at the Savannah College of Art
and Design-Atlanta. He is also a member of the game design collective
Local No. 12, a group of academics including Mike Edwards (Research
Faculty, Design & Technology, Parsons the New School for Design),
Colleen Macklin (Associate Professor, Design & Technology, Parsons the
New School for Design) and Eric Zimmerman (NYU Game Center)
which focus on Twitter as a game and research platform. John is also a
member of the Leisure Society, a group dedicated to the intersection of
games, narrative and art. John is also a partner in Supercosm, where he
focuses on interaction and game design for arts and education clients.
Lee Sheldon
Lee Sheldon has written and designed over 20 commercial video
games and MMOs. His book Character Development and Storytelling for
Games is required reading at many game developers and in game design
programs at some of the world’s most distinguished universities. Lee is a
contributor to several books on video games including Writing for Video
Game Genres from the IGDA, Game Design: An Interactive Experience
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