The Game Design team is an inclusive effort to bring women and allies together in the pursuit of game design, including associated skills and technologies. The Game Design team supports the needs of students in the game design program at IU but also serves the broader IU community of students interested in game-like media, as well as those interested in playing games. The team provides opportunities for instructional tutorials, professional development, networking, and socializing. These events bring together students from a range of backgrounds, and ultimately foster a community culture within IU’s game program and among students interested in games, more broadly.
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My name is Ariana Eiler and I am the lead intern for the Game Design student Alliance team. So the Game Design student alliance teams mission is to help underrepresented groups in the games industry find resources while they're here at university level and we try and make things really accessible and create a fun and supportive community for anyone interested in getting into game development especially women. We have social events that are kind of like we had a Halloween party earlier this year with a costume contest. Everyone comes and brings board games or video games and we just have food and have a great time. We also host game jams every year. We do the global Game Jam in January. This year we're hoping to see more people involved especially freshmen who may not have already known what resources are available to them. Join our community at the IU Center of Excellence for Women and Technology and come learn about games.
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Intern - Game Design
Hello! I’m Abby, an intern with the Game Design team. I’m am an undergrad majoring in Media with a concentration in Film, TV, and Digital Production. I’m passionate about storytelling and the impact it has on society, but more specifically, how games can be used as a mode of storytelling as well.
Lead Intern - Game Design
Kat is an undergraduate Senior in the Game Design program. They are passionate about creating a diverse space in the games industry and showing that games are pieces of art.
Intern - Game Design
Hello! My name is Olive Belcher. I’m a senior in informatics at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with a minor in computer science and game design. This year, I’ll be working as a Game Design Intern.
Patricia Pizer
Faculty Champion
An Infocom alum and 35+ year veteran of the games industry, Patricia has worked at such studios as Boffo Games, THQ, Harmonix Music, Disney, Turbine Entertainment, 42 Entertainment, and Ubisoft. She has worked on virtually every type of game out there, from text adventures to Massively Multiplayer games. Alternate Reality to Social Networks. Puzzles to wiring robots. Thanks to her avian companion of 30 years (Buster Keaton), her game design knowledge turned into a drive to create interactive experiences to engage and entertain captive parrots. Pizer also serves as a Professor of Practice in the Game Design program at Indiana University, Bloomington, educating young game developers and creating the games she’s dreamed of making. Mostly though, she just likes to play games.
