Jesse Schell is a professor

Professor

A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...

 of entertainment technology

Entertainment technology

Entertainment technology is the discipline of using manufactured or created components to enhance or make possible any sort of entertainment experience. Because entertainment categories are so broad, and because entertainment models the world in many ways, the types of implemented technology are...

 and game design

Game design

Game design, a subset of game development, is the process of designing the content and rules of a game in the pre-production stage and design of gameplay, environment, storyline, and characters during production stage. The term is also used to describe both the game design embodied in a game as...

 at Carnegie Mellon University's

Carnegie Mellon University

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

 (CMU) Entertainment Technology Center

Entertainment Technology Center

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

 (ETC), a joint master's program between the College of Fine Arts and School of Computer Science in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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.

Career

After graduating from the Information Networking Institute

Information Networking Institute

The Information Networking Institute was established by Carnegie Mellon in 1989 as the nation’s first research and education center devoted to information networking....

 at CMU

CMU

CMU may stand for a university:*Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States*Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States*Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada...

 in 1994 with a Masters of Science in Computer Networking and Virtual Reality

Virtual reality

Virtual reality , also known as virtuality, is a term that applies to computer-simulated environments that can simulate physical presence in places in the real world, as well as in imaginary worlds...

, Jesse Schell went on to work for Bell Labs

Bell Labs

Bell Laboratories is the research and development subsidiary of the French-owned Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company , half-owned through its Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary.Bell Laboratories operates its...

. In 1995 he joined Walt Disney Imagineering

Walt Disney Imagineering

Walt Disney Imagineering is the design and development arm of the Walt Disney Company, responsible for the creation and construction of Disney theme parks worldwide...

, where he worked for seven year 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 – Toontown Online

Toontown Online

Disney's Toontown Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by The Walt Disney Company and billed as the first such game intended for kids and families. Designed for children as young as seven, but teens and adults also play this, the depth of the game's content has drawn...

. During his time at Disney, he met Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch

Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch was an American professor of computer science and human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....

, who was taking a sabbatical in Jesse's lab. When Randy founded the Entertainment Technology Center at CMU he invited Jesse to become a faculty member. He joined the faculty in 2002.

In 2004 Jesse founded Schell Games, which specialized in the design and development of interactive experiences.

In 2008, using the design methodologies developed during his time at the ETC, Schell published The Art of Game Design.

He currently continues to teach Building Virtual Worlds and Game Design. At the same time, he is also the CEO and Creative director at Schell Games as well as the Design Director at Sim Ops Studio.

Jesse is also known for his speech for Unity Games at the Unite 2010 Keynote conference, part 2. http://vimeo.com/16710926

In addition his other achievements, in his career, Jesse has also been a writer, director, performer, juggler, comedian, and circus artist for both Freihofer's Mime Circus and the Juggler's Guild.

Games and Rides

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for Buccaneer Gold
  Pirates of the Caribbean
  Pirates of the Caribbean is a multi-billion dollar Walt Disney franchise encompassing a series of films, a theme park ride, and spinoff novels as well as numerous video games and other publications. The franchise originates with the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction, which opened at Disneyland in...
  
  

• Toontown Online
  Toontown Online
  Disney's Toontown Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by The Walt Disney Company and billed as the first such game intended for kids and families. Designed for children as young as seven, but teens and adults also play this, the depth of the game's content has drawn...
  
  

• Pirates of the Caribbean Online
  Pirates of the Caribbean Online
  Pirates of the Caribbean Online, sometimes shortened to Pirates Online or POTCO, is a MMORPG , created by the Walt Disney Company. It is based on the film series and theme park attraction of the same name...
  
  

• Toy Story Midway Mania

• Pixie Hollow

External links

• Schell in a Handbasket - Official blog
• Schell Games