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September 21, 2006
Metroland article about Mildred Elley's game-design summer camp
There's an article by John Brodeur on page 16 of the September 21, 2006 edition of Metroland about Mildred Elley's game-design summer camp for kids. Here's an excerpt:
LEARNING TO PLAY
Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to cowboys—send them to video-game-design camp!
By John BrodeurIt’s early afternoon on a gor-geous midsummer Friday. A moving truck is parked by the curb outside Latham Circle Mall as men load office supplies through the mall’s entrance doors and onto the waiting truck bed. Another Latham Circle business apparently has gone to pot. That’s no surprise; this place has been on the decline for well over a decade. In fact, the sprawling hull of a building, once the bustling lower half of a semicolon dotted by the Latham traffic circle, now faintly resembles what was once known as a shopping mall: The few businesses that continue to thrive here—or survive, at least—include a bank, a few food stands, and a Burlington Coat Factory. But in a small, dark classroom tucked deep in a corner of the mall’s second-floor, you can almost see the future . . . or something like that: Welcome to video-game-design camp. Now drop and give me 20.
Read the full article on the Metroland website
Posted by IanStead at September 21, 2006 01:16 PM
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