[CSCIUndergrad] Fw: 2 Opportunities for Students

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The first two opportunities below might be of interest to you.
 
 
1. Microsoft announced that college students will now have access to 4 
development and design tools free of charge:
Visual Studio 2008
Expression Studio
Windows Server 2003
XNA Game Studio 2.0
 
Students should visit DreamSpark (https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/) 
for more information and to download the software.
 
 
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2. Reminder: Enrollment Open for Fundamentals of Game Design Class at CUNY 
School of Professional Studies (SPS)
 
CISDD and the CUNY School of Professional Studies are teaming up to offer 
a non-credit mini-course in game design this spring. The course is meant 
to develop both the theoretical and practical tools necessary for 
analyzing and designing games. It will focus largely on paper and 
physical-based projects to help students develop a foundation in 
designing, playtesting, and iteratively re-designing games. Projects will 
include designing card and board games; modifying and creating sports; and 
writing pitches and concepts for video games. The course is not solely 
computer-science oriented and should appeal to anyone interested in the 
underlying principles of gaming. The instructor, Greg Trefry, is a game 
designer at Gamelab, a New York City-based gaming company, and the 
director of the Come Out & Play Festival (www.comeoutandplay.org), a major 
street games festival. Class starts mid-March. More information is 
available at: 
http://www.sps.cuny.edu/programs/spscourses/subjectdescription.aspx?sid=GAME
.
 
 

Kara Heffernan
Managing Director
CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development (CISDD)
101 West 31st Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10001
T: (212) 652-2861
F: (212) 652-2899 
Kara.Heffernan at mail.cuny.edu 
www.cisdd.org 
 
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