Arnab Basu

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Arnab Basu is a product manager, game designer and a videogames producer. He has contributed to the Tomb Raider series for Crystal Dynamics [1] on Tomb Raider: Anniversary [2] and Tomb Raider: Underworld . [3] And later, at Eidos Interactive for Batman: Arkham Asylum. [4]

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Arnab is a secretary on the Board of Directors for the Institute of Play, [5] a not-for-profit which promotes game design as a non-traditional education tool. His focus has been enhancing primary education for kids around the world by harnessing new media and game design techniques to build flexible, on-demand learning ecologies. He has given talks on game design at the Game Design Expo, Vancouver Film School, Vancouver' 2008 [6] and the Game Developers Conference, Lyon, 2007 [7]

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Vancouver Film School (VFS) is a private entertainment arts school located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 1987, it has achieved international recognition. The Vancouver Film School has campus locations around Downtown Vancouver and comprises six buildings. As part of the school's 20th anniversary in 2007, in August 2006 one million dollars was set aside in scholarships for new students. In March, 2008, Vancouver Film School and YouTube launched a competition for three full-tuition scholarships for the creators of the three videos submitted and voted as favorites by the YouTube community.

Basu graduated with an MET degree from the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon in 2006. [8] He holds a BE in Computer Science and Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University [9]

Entertainment Technology Center

The Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) is a department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located at the Pittsburgh Technology Center.

Carnegie Mellon University private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private nonprofit research university based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools, the university became the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1912 and began granting four-year degrees. In 1967, the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University. With its main campus located 3 miles (5 km) from Downtown Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon has grown into an international university with over a dozen degree-granting locations in six continents, including campuses in Qatar and Silicon Valley, and more than 20 research partnerships.

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Visvesvaraya Technological University is a collegiate Public State University in Karnataka State of Republic of India, established by the Government of Karnataka. Apart from a few notable exceptions, VTU has authority over engineering education all over the state of Karnataka. It is a statutory requirement for colleges offering any program in engineering or technology in the state to be affiliated with the university.

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References

  1. ↑ Why Your Game Studio Should Practice 'Shared Design', Gamasutra Article, February 5, 2008
  2. ↑ allgame.com. "Credits for Anniversary" . Retrieved 2011-06-19.
  3. ↑ allgame.com. "Credits for Underworld" . Retrieved 2011-06-19.
  4. ↑ allgame.com. "Credits for Batman: Arkham Asylum" . Retrieved 2011-06-19.
  5. ↑ instituteofplay.org. "Bio page on Institute of Play website" . Retrieved 2011-06-19.
  6. ↑ Shared Design. Jan 20, 2008
  7. ↑ Crystal Dynamics on sharing design skills across teams, December 3, 2007
  8. ↑ Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University Alumni Profile, June 2006
  9. ↑ Achiever's List, Alumni News, C.M.R. Institute of Technology, June 2005, Retrieved February 5, 2010


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