{"id":219,"date":"2005-11-22T18:59:02","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T16:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=219"},"modified":"2005-11-22T18:59:02","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T16:59:02","slug":"i-loathe-any-attempt-to-teach-game-design-as-an-academic-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2005\/11\/22\/i-loathe-any-attempt-to-teach-game-design-as-an-academic-discipline\/","title":{"rendered":"I loathe any attempt to teach game design as an academic discipline."},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times has a reasonably good article on academic programs teaching video games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The headline of this post comes from Jack Emmert of Cryptic studios<\/a> (City of Heroes).<\/p>\n

“This whole idea of teaching game design is a fabrication,” Mr. Emmert said. “I’m a serious academic, and what is the actual skill that they’re teaching? If you’re not teaching a quantifiable skill, then you are teaching an opinion. Making games is an art form. You need to understand the technical side, but I loathe any attempt to teach game design as an academic discipline.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As someone who teaches game design, I find this to be complete … fabrication. How exactly did Emmert reach the conclusion that we are not teaching the students any (quantifiable) skills. I’d like to know.<\/p>\n

In the article, Tracy Fullerton sets the record straight:<\/p>\n

“It reminds me that there was a moment when film studies really took off and the guys at the studios were like, ‘Who are these Spielbergs and Lucases and Coppolas coming out of these film schools with these crazy ideas?’ They’ll come around.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times has a reasonably good article on academic programs teaching video games. The headline of this post comes from Jack Emmert of Cryptic studios (City of Heroes). “This whole idea of teaching game design is a fabrication,” Mr. Emmert said. “I’m a serious academic, and what is the actual skill that they’re … Continue reading “I loathe any attempt to teach game design as an academic discipline.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}