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Otis College Extension Expands Game Design Certificate Program to Eight Courses

For Philip Donahue and Lawrence Mascia—instructors in Otis College Extension’s Game Design Certificate Program—games and video games were a way to escape when they were younger (they both started on the original Nintendo Entertainment System, which launched in 1985). Eventually, games led them to professional careers. 

Video Game Industry Veterans Share Career Advice at Otis Extension Panel Discussion 

If there was one takeaway from the “Diverse Voices in the Game Design Industry” panel discussion, which Otis Extension hosted last week, it was that there rarely is a direct entree into the video game design industry. For the event’s three panelists—Amy Allison, Jonathan Scott, and Chase Bethea—their ascendance in the field had a lot to do with being at the right place at the right time and never giving up in what often has been a volatile industry.