1. Carlotta Eaton New River Community College 1 Interactive Programming and Game Design as a Recruiting Tool Interactive Programming and Game Design as a Recruiting Tool Carlotta Eaton Professor of Information Technology New River Community College IT Peer Conference - October 2006

2. Carlotta EatonNew River Community College2 Session Description Learn how to leverage the game industry to recruit students. The game industry revenue exceeds $30 billion per year worldwide and has surpassed movie box office revenues in the U.S., making games the fastest growing segment of the entertainment market and an excellent field for career advancement. We will explore Game Maker as one way to teach object oriented programming in a very visual exciting way. Students love to create computer games and learn OOP at the same time.

3. Carlotta EatonNew River Community College3 Agenda  Information Gathering  Game Design at NRCC  ITP xxx – Introduction to Game Design & Development  Game Maker  Game Development Essentials

4. Carlotta EatonNew River Community College4 Information Gathering  Last 4 years – various conferences  Working Connections 2006 – May 06  Digital Game Xpo - June 06  IGDA Chapter in Raleigh – 2006  Austin Game Conference – Sept 06

5. Carlotta EatonNew River Community College5 Working Connection @ RU  Intro to Game Design & Development  Farhad Javidi, Program Chair Simulation & Gaming  Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC  Spent $500K and 2 years on Game Research www.javidi.com/sgd

6. Carlotta EatonNew River Community College6 Digital Game Xpo  Walter Rotenberry Lead Instructor—Simulation and Game Development email: wdrotenb@waketech.edu  Wake Technical Community College, Raleigh, NC  June 2006 www.dgxpo.com www.dgxpo.com

7. Carlotta EatonNew River Community College7 IGDA Triangle Chapter  Dana Crowley, Coordinator  Scott Johnson, Emergent Game Technologies  Attend meetings in Raleigh, NC www.igda.org/nctriangle/

8. Carlotta EatonNew River Community College8 Austin Game Conference  September 2006  Over 2400 attendees  3 tracks  Game Writers  Casual Games  Game Audio www.gameconference.com

9. Carlotta EatonNew River Community College9 Austin Game Conference  Microsoft Casual Games  Austin Community College  CMP Game Developer’s Conference  Emergent Game Technologies  XEO Design

10. Carlotta EatonNew River Community College10 ITP 1xx – Introduction to Game Design & Development  Fall 06 for pilot class  VCCS Course proposal  Course site at www.nr.edu/itp195 www.nr.edu/itp195  3 textbooks  Intro to game  Gamemaker  Alice

11. Carlotta EatonNew River Community College11 Game Maker software  Free software – developed under a grant  Easy to use for beginners  Get the book (see next slide) www.gamemaker.nl

12. Carlotta EatonNew River Community College12 The Game Maker’s Apprentice  By Jacob Habgood Mark Overmars Jacob Habgood Mark OvermarsJacob Habgood Mark Overmars  ISBN: 1-59059-615-3  336 pp.  Published: Jun 2006  Price: $39.99

13. Carlotta EatonNew River Community College13 Game Development Essentials  By Jeannie Novak Jeannie NovakJeannie Novak  Publisher: Thomson Delmar Learning; 1 edition  ISBN: 1401862713  Currently used by  NRCC  WTCC in NC  CPCC in NC

14. Carlotta EatonNew River Community College14 Game Maker demo

15. Carlotta EatonNew River Community College15 Game Design at NRCC  2 Degrees with Game specializations  Information Technology  CAD  15 credit hours  Cross-discipline approach  Core Courses  ITP xx Intro to Game Design & Development  DRF 238/239 Computer Aided Modeling I & II  ITD 112 Creating Web Graphics  ITD 212 Interactive Web Design

16. Carlotta EatonNew River Community College16 Press  Roanoke Times  Wall Street Journal  …

17. Carlotta EatonNew River Community College17 Join the Fun  Programming games is a great way to teach object oriented programming  Planning  Design  Development  Testing  Game Maker is  easy to use and free  used by Microsoft Casual Games division  Learn from your students

18. Carlotta EatonNew River Community College18 For More Information Carlotta Eaton Professor of Information Technology Director, Game Technology Programs www.nr.edu/eatonwww.nr.edu/eaton or www.nr.edu/eaton www.nr.edu/itp195 (540) 674-3600 x4250 nreatoc@nr.edu