Experienced professors from MIT, NYU, and UC Santa Cruz challenged the current practice of teaching game history during the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco yesterday.
In a panel session called “Knowing the Past: Game Education Needs Game History,” Clara Fernandez-Vara, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, and her two colleagues, NYU Game Center Assistant Professor Jasper Juul and Associate Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz Noah Wardrip-Fruin, stressed the importance of integrating game history into college game studies courses. The trio of educators also presented helpful solutions to address the type of technical problems associated with having students play older games.
