Jeff Watson (designer)


Jeff Watson is a Canadian game designer, writer, and educator. His principal topics of interest are pervasive and environmental game design, creative process design, and participatory media. He is currently an assistant professor of interactive media and games at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, associate faculty at the USC Game Innovation Lab, and director of the Situation Lab.

Biography

Watson was born in Calgary, Alberta. He attended McGill University in Montreal, York University and the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto, and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he received his PhD in media arts and practice. His dissertation project, Reality Ends Here, won the 2012 Impact Award at the IndieCade International Festival of Independent Games. From 2013 to 2014, Watson was an assistant professor in the Digital Futures program at OCAD University in Toronto, where he founded the Situation Lab with futurist Stuart Candy. In 2014, the Situation Lab released its first game, The Thing From the Future.

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