Episode 53: Game Design in Academia

Listen as Darren Grey, Tom Betts, Michael Cook, Ian Horswill, Leif Foged, and Andrew Doull discuss the intersection of game design and academia. They explore automated game design, constraint technology, crossover between game design and other fields, designing games with a multi modular AI program, exploring 3D roguelike game development in Unity, procedural content generation in a dungeon crawler game, presenting academic concepts to a general audience, moving beyond copying existing games, open access to academic research in game design, challenges and solutions in collaboration between academic and indie game development communities, challenges of procedural content in game design, and an open source bibliography database and academic events.