Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast! Teaching Gamedev to Young People (with Truman Simpson)
Jun 3, 2022
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In this episode Truman Simpson joins us to talk about teaching game development to young people, through Gameheads, an organization for which Truman is a long standing volunteer. The clubhouse discusses the importance of seeing what is possible and what is achievable, and Stephen is jealous of today's youths.
Teaching Gamedev to Young People
Gameheads
Truman Simpson volunteers with Gameheads. Gameheads is an organization that teaches youth and prepares them for careers in game development. Gameheads is lead by Damon Packwood and operates out of Oakland and the Bay Area, CA, with possible expansions around the US.
Teaching and Games cross-pollination
Ellen mentions that Teaching and Games is a cross-pollination that is a whole other episode, here are some Episodes on that topic from the archives
We talked about educational institutions for game dev back in episode 16
Ellen joined as a guest host way back in Episode 75
We also talked about teaching/learning durring the Redundancy topic in Episode 170
Project Success
Stephen is working with Project Success to design a learning curriculum for middle school aged youths.
Stephen mentioned design pillars, as one of the learning topics in project sucess, see also episode 187
Soylent Green
Soylent Green is set in the year 2022 (that's this year!) and something we got distracted by on a tangent. Yes, soylent is a real product now.
And, if the people from Soylent want to sponsor us, please reach out at contact@nicegames.club