Background
Schell, Jesse Nathaniel was born on June 13, 1970 in Denville, New Jersey, United States. Son of Anthony Schell, Susanne Fahringer.
software developer university professor
Schell, Jesse Nathaniel was born on June 13, 1970 in Denville, New Jersey, United States. Son of Anthony Schell, Susanne Fahringer.
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, Rensselaer, Troy, New York, 1988—1992. MSINI, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA, 1993—1994.
After graduating from the Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in 1994 with a Masters of Science in Computer Networking and Virtual Reality, Jesse Schell went on to work for Bell laboratories In 1995 he joined Walt Disney Imagineering, where he worked for seven years in capacity of programmer, manager, designer and Creative Director on several projects. These included rides for theme parks, DisneyQuest and the "first Massively Multiplayer game for kids" (according to Disney) – Toontown Online.
During his time at Disney, he met Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch, who was taking a sabbatical in Jesse"s laboratory
When Randy founded the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, he invited Jesse to become a faculty member. He joined the faculty in 2002.
In 2002, Jesse founded Schell Games, a full-service game design and development company with a focus on developing Transformational Games. The company is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and employs more than 100 people.
Currently Jesse serves as Chief Executive Officer. In 2008, using the design methodologies developed during his time at the ETC, Schell published The Art of Game Design.
A second edition of this book was published in 2014. He continues to teach Building Virtual Worlds and Game Design at the ETC. Jesse is well known for his many talks on game design, but best known for his Developing Information and Communications Technology Expertise for Micro SMEs 2010 talk, "Beyond Facebook", which was adopted as a TED "Best of the Web" talk, and has had over a million views online. In 2015, Jesse Schell was honored with a Carnegie Science Award in the Entrepreneur category.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for Buccaneer Gold
Toontown Online
Pirates of the Caribbean Online
Toy Story Midway Mania
Pixie Hollow
Schell in a Handbasket - Official website
Schell Games - Official company website
"The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses" - Jesse Schell"s book
Things I Finished - Jesse Schell"s blog
Twitter - Official Twitter
Talks
Developing Information and Communications Technology Expertise for Micro SMEs 2013: "The Secret Mechanisms" - 2013 talk that expands on his acclaimed 2010 Developing Information and Communications Technology Expertise for Micro SMEs presentation
Developing Information and Communications Technology Expertise for Micro SMEs 2010: "Beyond Facebook" - 2010 talk exploring the world of game development beyond the Facebook era
TEDxUniPittsburgh: "The Future is Beautiful" - 2010 talk about using games to improve education
"Visions of the Gamepocalypse" - 2010 talk about gamification
ARE2010 Keynote: "Seeing" - 2010 talk about seeing augmented reality with new eyes
Unite Conference 2010: "Who will we talk to? Our Virtual Companions" - 2010 talk that focuses on the future of virtual characters.
Member of IGDA.
Married Nyra Munoz.