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Jesse Schell

Disciplines:
technology
writing
software/game design
carnegie mellon

Summary

American game designer and professor at Carnegie Mellon — author of The Art of Game Design — who created the 'lenses' framework for game design analysis.

Core Contribution

Creates the most comprehensive framework for game design analysis — The Art of Game Design's 113 lenses (different analytical perspectives on game design) is the most practically useful single-volume treatment of game design methodology.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Art of Game Design

Historical Influences

Game design practice tradition

Intellectual Lineage

Carnegie Mellon Schell GamesWalt Disney Imagineering

Contemporaries & Peers

Will Wright Sid Meier

Minds Influenced

Game design education

Intellectual Posterity

The Art of Game Design

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