- Tracy Fullerton
Tracy Fullerton (born 1965) is an American game designer, educator and writer. She is currently an Associate Professor in the
USC Interactive Media Division of theUSC School of Cinematic Arts and Director of the Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab. Fullerton is the author of Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games, a game design textbook advocating a playcentric design process. Credits include faculty advisor for the award-winning student games Cloud andflOw , and game designer for The Night Journey a unique game/art project currently in production with media artistBill Viola .Prior to joining the USC faculty, she was president and founder of the interactive television game developer, [http://www.spiderdance.com/ Spiderdance] , Inc. Spiderdance’s games included NBC’s
Weakest Link , MTV’swebRIOT , The WB’s No Boundaries, History Channel’sHistory IQ , Sony Game Show Network’sInquizition and TBS’s Cyber Bond. Before starting Spiderdance, Fullerton was a producer and creative director at the New York design firm R/GA Interactive. While there, she created games and interactive products for clients including Sony, Intel, Microsoft, AdAge, Ticketmaster, Compaq, and Warner Bros. among many others. Notable projects include Sony’s Multiplayer Jeopardy! and Multiplayer Wheel of Fortune and MSN’s [http://www.mobygames.com/game/netwits/ NetWits] , the first multiplayer casual game. Additionally, Fullerton was Creative Director at the interactive film studio Interfilm, where she wrote and co-directed the “cinematic game” [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114282/ Ride for Your Life] , starringAdam West andMatthew Lillard . She began her career as a designer atRobert Abel ’s company Synapse, where she worked on the interactive documentary Columbus: Encounter, Discovery and Beyond and other early interactive projects.Fullerton’s work has received numerous industry honors including an Emmy nomination for interactive television, best Family/Board Game from the
Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences , I.D. Magazine’s Interactive Design Review,Communication Arts Interactive Design Annual, several New Media Invision awards, iMix Best of Show, the Digital Coast Innovation Award, IBC’s Nombre D’Or, Time Magazine’s Best of the Web andThe Hollywood Reporter ’s Women in Entertainment Power 100.External links
* [http://www.tracyfullerton.com/ TracyFullerton.com] - Fullerton's portfolio
* [http://interactive.usc.edu/members/tfullerton/ Ludicidal Tendencies] - Fullerton's research blog
* [http://www.amazon.com/Game-Design-Workshop-Second-Playcentric/dp/0240809742/ Game Design Workshop, 2nd Ed.]
* [http://interactive.usc.edu/ USC School of Cinematic Arts, Interactive Media Division site]
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