Ernest W. Adams
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Ernest W. Adams | |
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 Adams at the Game Developers Conference in 2010 | |
| Occupation | Professor of Game Design |
Ernest W. Adams is an author and game designer. He is an associate professor of Game Design at Uppsala University, and the author of several books on game design.
Education and career
Adams entered the game industry in 1989 as a software engineer, and joined Electronic Arts in 1992. He was lead designer on John Madden Football for 3DO, and served as the audio/video producer on the Madden NFL product line from 1993 to 1999.[1] In 1999 Adams moved to Bullfrog Productions, and for one year he worked on a new game in the Populous series, and Dungeon Keeper 3, but both games were cancelled.[2]
In 2001, Adams wrote a manifesto on best practices in game design, where he suggested that designers should focus more on gameplay and less on technology.[3]
In 2013, Adams completed a PhD from the School of Computing and Mathematics at Teesside University on the topic of interactive storytelling.[4] His work on interactive storytelling began in 1995 with the lecture "The Challenge of the Interactive Movie," delivered at the Computer Game Developers' Conference, and continued through a variety of lectures and articles for another 16 years. From 1997 to 2013 Adams was also a paid columnist for the Gamasutra game developers' webzine, writing a regular column called "The Designer's Notebook."
Adams is a professor in the department of Game Design at Uppsala University in Sweden.[5]
References
- ^ "Moby Games: Ernest Adams". Retrieved Feb 2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "GameStar.RU: Interview with Ernest Adams. Rambo from the gaming industry". Retrieved Oct 2011.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ Taylor, Craig (April 15, 2001). "The Way We Live Now | Questions for Ernest Adams; Heir of the Dogma". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved November 12, 2021.
- ^ "Gamasutra: The Designer's Notebook: Three Problems for Interactive Storytellers, Resolved".
- ^ "Uppsala University Catalog". Retrieved April 13, 2020.
External links
- Ernest W. Adams publications indexed by Google Scholar
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