Dan Roy
Moby ID: 223280
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Dan Roy is an Educational Game Designer at a startup in stealth-mode in the San Francisco bay area. He received his masters in Comparative Media Studies from MIT, where he worked with The Education Arcade designing games to teach math and literacy. Before MIT, he worked at Muzzy Lane Software on Making History: The Calm & The Storm. His masters thesis is titled "Mastery and the Mobile Future of Massively Multiplayer Games" and can be found at CrossGamer.com. While at MIT, he also worked with GAMBIT, the Teacher Education Program, and with Ravi Purushotma modding commercial games to teach foreign languages. He helped organize the Boston Game Jam at MIT, supporting Darius Kazemi.
Roy received his BS in Computer Science from UMass Amherst, where he cofounded the game development club Hi-Score. Roy is a frequent speaker at GDC, presenting on educational games and mobile games. He is a former IGDA Scholar. In 2005, he helped start a course at UMass called “The Computer Science of Multiplayer Games.”
Credited on 4 games
| Making History: The Calm & The Storm - Gold Edition (2008, Windows) | Researchers |
| Making History: The Calm & The Storm (2007, Windows) | Researchers |
| Armored Fist 2 (1997, DOS) | Quality Assurance |
| F-22 Lightning II (1996, DOS) | Team NovaLogic |
Frequent Collaborators
People- 2 games with James Lamorticelli
- 2 games with Randy Casey
- 2 games with Lee Milligan
- 2 games with Michael S. Maza
- 2 games with Jason Haas
- 2 games with Katherine Moore
- 2 games with Nancy Webster
- 2 games with John Kuczwara
- 2 games with Ian Russell
- 2 games with Robert Meyer
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Companies
- 2 games with NovaLogic, Inc.
- 2 games with Muzzy Lane Software Inc.
- 2 games with Akella
- 2 games with Valve Corporation
- 2 games with NovaLogic Ltd.
- 1 game with Ayzenberg Group
- 1 game with Strategy First, Inc.
- 1 game with Brasoft Produtos de...
- 1 game with Pi Editora Ltda.
- 1 game with Electronic Arts GmbH
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