Education
West Virginia University. Georgia Institute of Technology. University of California, Santa Cruz.
West Virginia University. Georgia Institute of Technology. University of California, Santa Cruz.
He has jammed at the Indie Game Jam, presented at the Game Developers Conference, and is an active participant in the academic game studies community. Gingold grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia. He attended West Virginia University, where he studied computer science, English, and art
After college, Gingold headed to the Georgia Institute of Technology where he joined the Information Design and Technology Masters program
His dissertation was entitled "Miniature Gardens & Magic Crayons: Games, Spaces, & Worlds" and was supervised by noted scholar Janet Murray. Gingold lives in Berkeley, California, United States of America and is a Doctor of Philosophy student in Computational Media at University of California Santa Cruz.
In January 2015, Gingold released Earth Primer, a game that deals with the workings of the Earth.
Chaim was also a key member of Spore"s design and prototyping team