Jeff Watson (designer)

Jeff Watson
Born (1973-03-26) March 26, 1973
Calgary, AB, CAN
Nationality Canada Canadian
Education USC School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Known for Game Design
Notable work The Thing From The Future (2014)
Reality Ends Here (2011-)
Awards Association of Professional Futurists Most Significant Futures Work Award (2015)
IndieCade Impact Award (2012)
Website www.remotedevice.net

Jeff Watson (born 1973, Calgary) is a Canadian game designer, writer, and educator. His principal topics of interest are pervasive and environmental game design, creative process design, and participatory media. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, associate faculty at the USC Game Innovation Lab, and Director (with Stuart Candy) of the Situation Lab.

Biography

Watson was born in 1973 in Calgary, Alberta. He attended McGill University in Montreal, York University and the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto, and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he received his PhD (2011) in Media Arts and Practice. His dissertation project, Reality Ends Here, won the 2012 Impact Award at the IndieCade International Festival of Independent Games. From 2013-2014, Watson was an Assistant Professor in the Digital Futures program at OCAD University in Toronto, where he founded the Situation Lab with futurist Stuart Candy. In 2014, the Situation Lab released its first game, The Thing From the Future.

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Association of Professional Futurists 2015 MSFW Awards". July 2015. Retrieved 2015-08-23.
  2. ↑ "IndieCade 2012 Award Winners". October 2012. Retrieved 2015-08-23.

External links

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