Dec 05 2011
Prof. Linda Breitlauch
Europe’s only Professor for Computer Gaming
Prof. Linda Breitlauch is Europe’s only Professor for Computer Gaming. She is currently the Head of the Game Design Program at the MediaDesign Hochschule, Düsseldorf teaching media theory, design and multimedia dramaturgy. She has helped pioneer work into the combination in a novel way of two gaming traditions, which have been mutual exclusive till now: outdoor games and computer games.
“Linda Breitlauch gives a very realistic overview of modern game development practices”
Prof. Linda Breitlauch became a games enthusiast in the days of the early consoles. She has pioneered the framework of her study screenplay and dramaturgy in the Film and Television College in Potsdam. Among other things in the Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences she studied “Interactive Storytelling” at great length. [/expand]
Prof. Breitlauch offers insights into the developments in the computer games industry. Her realistic overview opens audience’s minds to realistic conflicts, witty challenges, many-sided strategies and varied game contents.[/expand]
Linda Breitlauch’s fascinating presentations are filled with ideas on her passions – adventures, strategy games and role plays. She also looks at the new challenges game design is facing and into the role of women in games, their emotional effects and the thought processes behind the active rolls from feminine figures in the games.[/expand]
Topics
The Future of Computer Games
Virtual Reality
Virtual Environments and Simulation
Human and Organisational Behaviour
The Challenges Game Design is Facing
Publications
2008
Games Going Society
2007
Virtuelles trifft Realität
2006
Dramaturgie der Computerspiele
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