Teaching Gamedev to Young People (with Truman Simpson)

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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

Game Design

IRL

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.

Gameheads Website

Gameheads Twitter

Damon Packwood's Twitter

Truman Simpson's twitter

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

Games Education

Ellen joined as a guest host way back in Episode 75

Learning Through Games

We also talked about teaching/learning durring the Redundancy topic in Episode 170

"Stephen, his arms wide!"

Project Success

Stephen is working with Project Success to design a learning curriculum for middle school aged youths.

Project Success Website

Stephen mentioned design pillars, as one of the learning topics in project sucess, see also episode 187

"A way to farm notions."

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.

In 1973, 'Soylent Green' envisioned the world in 2022.

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George Bass

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The Washington Post

Soylent (the real product

And, if the people from Soylent want to sponsor us, please reach out at [e-mail]

Truman Simpson

Guest

Truman Simpson is a person who lives in beautiful Oakland, CA