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Jesse Schell
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Jesse Schell is an American video game designer, author, and educator whose work spans game design, entertainment technology, and interdisciplinary creative practice.
Biography
Jesse N. Schell is an American video game designer and author born on June 13, 1970. He is CEO of Schell Games and a distinguished professor of the practice of entertainment technology at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center. The center is a joint master's program between the College of Fine Arts and the School of Computer Science in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Schell earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master's degree in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University. Early in his career, he worked as a software engineer at IBM and Bell Communications Research before moving to Los Angeles to work with Disney Imagineering. His experience also includes writing, directing, performing, juggling, comedy, and circus arts with Freihofer's Mime Circus and the Juggler's Guild.
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Books by Jesse Schell
The Art of Game Design
The Art of Game Design presents game-design fundamentals, explaining how psychological principles used in board games, card games, and athletic games also apply to video games. It offers more than 100 sets of questions for improving games, drawing on fields including psychology, architecture, music, film, software engineering, and anthropology.