Jesse Schell
Video Game Designer
Jesse Schell is a video game designer and the CEO of Schell Games. Hehas led research projects at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, and he is the former chairman of the International Game Developers Association. In 2004, he was named one of the world's Top 100 Young Innovators by rnTechnology Review, MIT’s magazine of innovation.
How Virtual Currencies Will Transform Marketing
Advertisers are beginning to understand the “incredible power” of giving consumers virtual currency in gaming worlds in exchange for their purchases.
Video Games: The Defining Medium of the 21st Century
Film became the literature of the 20th century. Likewise, video games will take over in this coming century, especially once they learn to listen to us.
The Future of Virtual Currencies
Game designers are having to think more like marketers: “We’re used to having fun be at the core, but now funding is at the core,” says Schell. “Now we design […]
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Why Massively Multiplayer Games Are So Popular
The concrete sense of the achievement, combined with the opportunity for social engagement and a never-ending source of challenges make massively multiplayer online games a highly captivating form of entertainment.
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Video Games as Life Coaches
In the future, video games may allow everyone to have a personal trainer, not only for exercise, but for their education, hobbies, art, spirituality—anything in their life that they’d like […]
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Will Video Games Be the Defining Medium of the 21st Century?
Video game technology is the medium that subsumes all others. Once these games have the ability to listen to humans, they’ll be even more emotionally enticing.
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Playing Games in the Classroom
Our educational system should be reinvented to harness the incredible power of educational games.
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