Nationality Canadian Known for Game Design | Website www.remotedevice.net Name Jeff Watson | |
Awards Association of Professional Futurists Most Significant Futures Work Award (2015)IndieCade Impact Award (2012) | ||
Jeff Watson (born March 26, 1973) 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 (with Stuart Candy) of the Situation Lab.
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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 (2011) 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 2013-2014, 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.