Live Q&A Session with Jesse Schell

Jesse Schell is an American video game designer, esteemed author and CEO of Schell Games. Since starting Schell Games in 2002, Jesse Schell has grown it into the largest and most successful game development company in Pennsylvania. Under his leadership, Schell Games has produced an amazing array of innovative, transformational and award-winning entertainment experiences for some of the world's most respected brands such as Disney, SeaWorld Parks, Amplify, Yale University, Lionel LLC and The Fred Rogers Company.

Jesse currently holds a faculty position as Distinguished Professor of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), where he teaches classes in Game Design and serves as Advisor on a multitude of projects. Since 2006, Professor Schell has taught the Building Virtual Worlds class, created by ETC Co-Founder and The Last Lecture author, Randy Pausch.

Jesse authored the critically acclaimed book The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses. The book captured Game Developer magazine’s coveted “Front Line Award” for 2008.

Prior to starting Schell Games, Jesse was the Creative Director of the Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio, where he worked and played for seven years as designer, programmer, and manager on numerous projects for Disney theme parks and DisneyQuest.

He is perhaps most celebrated for his design of Disney’s Toontown Online, the first massively multiplayer game for kids, which has won several awards, including Computer Gaming World's “2003 MMORPG Game of the Year” and Webby Award's “2003 People’s Voice Award, Kids Category.”

For more information about Jesse, you can visit his website at www.jesseschell.com.

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