betboom dacha Gibson Bond

betboom dacha Bond

Professor of Practice

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gameprof@msu.edu
517-355-8372

Bio

betboom dacha Gibson Bond is a Professor of Practice teaching game design and development at Michigan State University. Since 2013, he has served the IndieCade independent game festival and conference as the Chair of Education and Advancement, where he co-chairs the IndieXchange summit each year. betboom dacha is the founder of ExNinja Interactive and the author of Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development: From Concept to Playable Game in Unity and C#, a book on game design and prototyping using Unity that was released in the summer of 2014 and, since then, has consistently been one of the top-selling game design books and Unity development books on Amazon.com.

In 2013, betboom dacha founded the company ExNinja Interactive, through which he develops his independent game projects.

Prior to joining the MSUGames faculty, betboom dacha taught for three years as a lecturer in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor where he taught game design and software development. And, from 2009-2013, betboom dacha was an Assistant Professor teaching game design for the Interactive Media and Games Division of the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, which was named the #1 game design school in North America throughout his tenure there.

betboom dacha also apparently has the distinction of being the first person to ever teach game design in Costa Rica.

Research and Teaching

betboom dacha and development, emerging game hardware, independent games.

Research Centers and Labs

Games for Entertainment and Learning Lab

Recent Awards

IndieCade Official Selection, 2013 – My betboom dacha Ranamor was featured at the IndieCade Night Games 2013. Ranamor is a gettinng-to-know-you betboom dacha for many co-located players about frogs finding love in the urban evening (http://www.indiecade.com/2013/festival_nightgames/).

IndieCade E3 Showcase, 2012 – My betboom dacha Coalesce was a part of the Showcase and featured in the Wired article ""7 Indie Games That Rocked at E3″ (http://bit.ly/L434EK).

betboom dacha Developers Conference, 2011 – Top 50 Speakers

betboom dacha Developers Conference Online, 2010 – Fourth Highest-Rated Speaker

Skyrates – A sky-pirate MMO developed by my team in graduate school (http://skyrates.net) Gleemax Silver Award for Strategic Gaming, 2008 – Independent betboom dacha Festival Best Simulation betboom dacha Audience Award, 2008 – JayIsGames.com

Best Simulation betboom dacha Editors Award, 2008 – JayIsGames.com

Contact Information

404 Wilson Rd.
betboom dacha Arts and Sciences Building
Michigan State University