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Educational and Professional Outreach:

Important Little Games is committed to expanding the reach of games-based learning. Our Creative Director takes an active role in the Chicagoland Game Development community and beyond at multiple levels.

 

  • Affiliate Member, Hive Chicago Chapter

Hive Chicago is a network of civic and cultural institutions dedicated to transforming the learning landscape by creating opportunities for youth to explore their interests through connected learning experiences

  • Co-Organizer, Bit Bash Interactive Arts Festival

I am the volunteer coordinator for Chicago’s biggest alternative games event.

  • Board Member, Indie City Games

Coordinate lectures, presentations and discussions along with a great group of games professionals in the Chicago area.

  • Speaker – Game Developers Conference 2012

My talk was about designing games to be idiomatic for the HTML5 platform.

  • Member, Indy City Co-op.

Member of a Chicago-based game development co-working space.

  • Career Fair – 1 WOW Day at Carl Sandburg Jr. High, Rolling Meadows, IL.  3/21

Gave a presentation on game design in which students created ‘mods’ of tic-tac-toe.

  • Career Fair – Curie High School Career Fair, Chicago, IL 3/20

Talked to high school students about what a career as a game designer is like.

  • Co-Host, Chicago Gametrepreneur Show

Audio program with co-host Kee-Won Hong about running a games-focused small business.

  • Game Developer Volunteer, Chicago Quest

Aided the on-staff game designers in developing educational games to be used in middle school curriculum at Chicago Quest.

  • Judge: Boss Level, Chicago Quest Middle School 11/25-11/26 2013

Instead of finals, Quest has ‘Boss Level’ which is an authentic challenge like Rube Goldberg Machine construction or Pinewood Derby.

  • Judge: Global Game Jam 2013, Chicago Chapter
  • Expert Blogger, Gamasutra (ongoing)

Blog on all things game-related.

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