I am a professional game designer, professor and Chair of the Interactive Design and Game Development department at the Savannah College of Art and Design. I have been in the game industry since 1981, remain active in development with the encouragement and enthusiastic support of the College and have shipped 22 commercial titles. I am an avid player of games and am currently spending an absurd amount of time studying them.
As a professor, I believe strongly in bringing this experience into practice in the classroom where I consistently work in a collaborative environment with my students to turn them from game players into game designers.
You can contact me at my first initial plus “brathwa” at scad.edu.
Current Industry Involvement
IGDA Board of Directors - Elected March 2008
IGDA Savannah Chapter Co-Founder - Fall 2007
IGDA Education SIG - Ad Hoc Committee Chair - March 2008
Current Areas of Study
- Social-net gaming and Facebook
- ARGs
- Perceived meaning versus actual meaning in video game choices and the influence that has on play/flow
- Using games to educate at-risk youth
- Using games to teach emotionally difficult subjects
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