SCAD Hong Kong Game Design and Development

You are invited to join our SCAD Open Day on Saturday, Apr.20, 12PM-4PM to explore SCAD’s outstanding facilities, experience SCAD student life, meet with admission staff, faculty. Register for SCAD Day at www.scad.edu/scadday or +852. 2253 8000.
誠邀各位參與我們於4月20日（週六）下午十二時至下午四時的SCAD薩凡納藝術設計大學開放日！歡迎各位前來參觀體驗SCAD的校園設施，請登入http://www.scad.edu/scadday 或致電 +852. 2253 8000 登記。

Photo by Slimane Ouahes of Ova Studio Ltd (ovastudio.com)

Classical music has its roots in chambers as a medium of bringing interesting people together.  Erica Lee and Maria Jee offered a unique opportunity for several of us from different disciplines to gather, greet, exchange ideas, and be inspired.  Thank you to Sallie, Lisa, and the great team at SCAD for facilitating and making this event possible.

Erica Lee

Violinist Erica Lee and Pianist Maria Jee

Erica Ye Byeol Lee made her solo debut at the age of eleven in Russia with the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in Em Op 64. Ms. Lee has performed modern and classic compositions at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York and other places around the world. She is a graduate of Julliard, Parsons, and Mannes.  Contact: erica@ericayblee.com Erica Lee at RTHK Kwok Talk on art education and its value and relevance for today’s youth  (MacOS users might need to download the Windows Media components for QuickTime)

EricaLee_SCAD_program.pdf

Thank you to Prof. Benedict Cruft of the APA for his insightful advice and help.

Paul, Ian, Mark, and Keiran at UXHK http://www.usability.com.hk

Gamification Workshop. Photo by Daniel Szuc (http://www.flickr.com/groups/uxhongkong/pool/with/8579734628/#photo_8579734628)

“As you might know, the Global Game Jam (GGJ) is an international game development event during which participants make games within a 48-hour time period. In 2012, GGJ had 242 locations in 47 countries and over created were 2000 games in one weekend, which became a Guinness World Record! GGJ was a project of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA.org) from 2009-2012.  From this year GGJ 2013, the event is managed by Global Game Jam, Inc.”, Prof. Hanna Wirman

To register, follow this link: http://globalgamejam.org/user/register

The following are the key web links:
http://globalgamejam.org/about (About GGJ)
http://globalgamejam.org/sites/2013/hong-kong (About GGJ Hong Kong)
http://ggjhongkong.blogspot.hk/ (Blog)
https://www.facebook.com/ggjhk2013 (Facebook page)
https://twitter.com/ggjhongkong (Twitter)

Date: January 25-27, 2013

Venue:
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
Core P, Room PQ002 (Basement)
Directions:
Hung Hom MTR Exit A1.
Cross the bridge over the Cross-Harbour tunnel.
At PolyU, turn right and you will see Core P, it is the first circular structure.
There is also a map at the entrance of the PolyU.

The preliminary rundown is as follows:

Students: Consider participating.  The outcome will generally look good in your CV and portfolio.

Thank you to our colleague Prof. Hanna Wirman of the PolyU for leading the organization of GGJ 2013 in Hong Kong!

http://cancham.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/the-business-case-for-video-game-development-in-hong-kong-by-dr-jose-a-rueda/

This talk is about creative careers and businesses as alternatives for education and business.
Join us on August 29 in Hong Kong.

See either link for more information:

http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=53656e7055eb8c1eb46bd5560&id=c875615ab6&e=

http://www.cancham.org/asp/calendar_detail.asp?item=B8FVK8KRS

Julian, Kevin, Henry, and Melissa made their games industry debut by introducing their iPad/iPhone games to a group of professionals.

Thank you to our industry guests Diana, Georgy, Raine, Kennis, Azure, Shuxian, Marco, John, Michael, Philip, Thomas, Leo, Ingo for all their feedback and support and for playing the students’ games!

This is a remarkable story about Caine Monroy, a 9-year-old game designer.  Notice three key game design principles: Simplicity, consistency, fairness.  Best intentions combined with a believable world that suspends disbelief in which the player understands why things are happening.

See the story by Mark Frauenfelder in boinggoing.net, April 9, 2012, and the short film by Nirvan Mullick, who discovered Caine:

http://boingboing.net/2012/04/09/9-year-olds-diy-cardboard-ar.html

Also see www.CainesArcade.com Caine seems to be raising funds for his education, perhaps he will study Game Design at SCAD Hong Kong!  Like his Facebook page See http://www.facebook.com/cainesarcade

Come and experience SCAD Hong Kong on April 21, 2012.

Click here for more information.

http://www.scadstyle.com/events

SCAD Style begins today

SCAD Atlanta, Lacoste, Hong Kong, Savannah and online
April 16-20

Join design leaders in architecture, fashion, sustainability and more as SCAD celebrates style. Visit scadstyle.com for a complete schedule as well as select live streamed events.

Eddy Wong, a pioneer of computer art in Hong Kong hosted SCAD HK students.   Eddy founded his studio in 1990 and has since built a renowned creative, technical and production powerhouse that employs many talented artists and designers in Hong Kong in the creation of high quality 3D movies and visual effects for the global market.  Students watched the studio reel and listened attentively to a presentation of the comprehensive film and television production services, including concept, copy-writing, story-boarding, art direction, casting, location and studio filming, editing, visual effects, animation, programming, online internet design and digital cinema mastering. We thank Eddy for being such as lively and wonderful host.

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SCAD HK MINI GDC – MARCH 2012

To coincide with GDC 2012, we hosted our own session at SCAD HK.  It was a great exchange between SCAD students and games professionals.  Game development students, Kevin, Julian, and Henry, presented their papers on the future of gameplay design and a graduate student, Melissa, introduce her new AR based game for the iPad.  Thank you to all participants!  We appreciate your participation, and in particular, we thank those of you who came from out of town for our MINI GDC. Participats included game designers and studio executives from studios in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Sweden, and Holland.

Participants: Martin, Ayesha, Podge, Maggie, Kennis, Azure, Ingo, Adam, Shuxian, Kevin, Julian, Henry, Melissa.

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