Video Streams

In the submenu on the left you find the video streams of the Level Up conference sessions that are available to watch. Below you find a video impression of Level Up.

 

Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman co-authored the book Rules of Play considered the standard textbook for game design. Rules of Play is a game design textbook that takes a deep look at card games, board games, social games, and physical games, as well as computer and electronic games.

Eric Zimmerman is a game designer who has been working in the game industry for more than 20 years. Zimmerman created dozens of games of all kinds, from massively multiplayer online games to physical games  for galleries and museums to card and board games. Inventing new forms of play is my life’s passion. Zimmerman teaches at MIT, School of Visual Arts, Parsons School of Design, and the NYU Game Center, where he is a full-time Arts Professor at Tisch School of the Arts. Click here for more information about Eric Zimmerman

Katie Salen is a game designer, animator, and educator. She is a professor in the DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media. She is the former Director of Graduate Students for the Design and Technology Program at Parsons The New School for Design, as well as the former Director of the Center for Transformative Media, a research center focused on emerging trends in design and media. She is the Executive Director of Institute of Play, a non-profit learning design studio that bases its work on the principles of games and play. In 2009, she helped design and launch Quest to Learn (Q2L), a public school in Manhattan, New York City. (source: Wikipedia)