SCAD Hong Kong Game Design and Development

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Julian Tam visiting Hong Kong

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With Chip Foster and Fashion Industry Executive Tommy Chin:

Chip, Nathan, Henry, Tommy

With Cenga

Chip on the screen

Chip lecturing

The ITGM Class, Fall 2012 at SCAD Hong Kong.  The Mini Game Developers Conference.

Thank you to our industry guests: Adam & Aime, Michael, Slimane, Martin & Alex, ATung, Roy, Po Chi, Martin, and Ingo.

Classes: ITGM351, ITGM315, ITGM121, ITGM719, ITGM755, ITGM760

SCAD Game Development students discuss with designers Martin and Alex from Phone Joy Solutions Limited (http://www.phonejoy.us), a start-up company specializing in console quality gameplay experience for mobile phones through innovative controller design and software.  Martin and Alex showcased early concepts of some of their products and also demonstrated compelling gameplay on the iPad and Galaxy devices with their controller for commercial games such as GTA III, Shad­ow­gun, Samurai II, Riptide, Sonic CD and Zeno­nia 4.  It is great to see innovation in this aspect of the industry.  Most studios are focusing on software and accepting somehow that it is ok to hinder the gameplay experience by our thumbs on the screen of mobile devices.  Martin and Alex don’t think we should compromise gameplay experience just because mobile phones are smaller than their console cousins.  I believe that their work opens interesting possibilities for designers and lowers the barriers for great gameplay designs on mobile phone to rival the console experience.

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!

Industry executive John Tsien visits SCAD students to talk about game design principles.  Thank you, John!

Legendary martial arts actor and creativity coach, Roy Horan, visits game development students at SCAD HK.  When Roy wasn’t in the set with Bruce Lee and others, he was thinking about creativity.  His shares his life work on this subject through his research, workshops, and electronic tools, http://www.innov-ea.com/

With Roy (centre) and Ron Wilcox (right)

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SCAD HK students held an exchange session with games industry executives Michael and Gerry. Visiting from Austin TX, Michael is responsible for the platform for more than two thirds of iPhone games and Gerry had global responsibility for Call of Duty at Activision, among other career experiences.  The exchange of ideas about game design was memorable.  Henry, Julian, Kevin, and Melissa participated in the exchange and added Michael and Gerry to their network of contacts.

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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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Guests

Melissa showing her portfolio to game designers Victor Zhang and Ruth Tong

Prof Jeff Poon in xiangqi battle with game designer Victor Zhang

Melissa talking about games with Chinese International School Film Teacher Elissa Rosati and her 12 year old son, who wants to be a game designer.