Notes on Game Dev is a collaborative blog with primarily game art and design topics from professional game industry members, educators, and writers. From industry interviews to “breaking in” advice to how-to’s to reviews on the latest software and innovative techniques, this blog serves a wide range of experience in the game development community.

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Notes on Game Dev is a publication of Sessions Online School of Game Art.

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Beth A. Dillon
Acquisitions Editor
www.bethadillon.com

Beth A. Dillon is the former editor of Gamasutra’s GameCareerGuide.com and Education Editor for Gamasutra.com. She currently serves on the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) Committees for Game Education and Game Writing. Aside from working on a Doctorate at Simon Fraser University with an emphasis in Indigenous game design, Beth is a freelance writer in the areas of game journalism and game content. Because a writer just loves writing.

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Johanna Lenander
Managing Editor
johanna@sessions.edu

Johanna Lenander is a design writer who lives in Brooklyn, NY. She has contributed to magazines like ID, Surface, New York and T: The New York Times Style Magazine. As a Swedish native she is particularly interested in and influenced by Scandinavian design and in 2006 she co-curated and organized “Happy Campers,” a collaborative exhibition with Swedish design groups in conjunction with ICFF. On a completely different note, she is also fascinated by the amazing and outrageous creations that are known as Fantasy Hair in the African American hair industry, which are the subject of the book Hair Wars, published by powerHouse books, that she co-authored with her husband, photographer David Yellen.

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Scott Chappell
Publisher
scott@sessions.edu

Scott Chappell is an expert in experiential learning, instructional design and product strategy. His career as a pedagogy radical in non- and for-profit education has taken him to 12 countries and into 5 mediums of teaching — conference, classroom, web, book and magazine. He has developed and facilitated experiential learning workshops for Philadelphia-based World Game Institute to diverse audiences globally. He has also recruited authors and instructors and produced curriculum for Sessions Online Schools of Art and Design based in New York City where he currently serves as CMO. He is Managing Partner of Back | Next, LLC fine art consulting, is on the Advisory Board for Create magazine and moderator for FastCompany’s design network.