
80 Level Round Table: Learning Game Design with CG Spectrum’s Mentor Troy Dunniway
10/19/21 • 43 min
Troy Dunniway is an award-winning Game Designer and Executive with over 25 years of game development experience at major companies like Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Insomniac, Disney, and Samsung. He has shipped 100+ titles on almost every platform and genre.
Troy designed or oversaw bestselling games like Rainbow Six Vegas, Munch’s Oddysee, Mercenaries, Age of Empires 3, Command and Conquer 3, Roller Coaster Tycoon Mobile, and more.
The designer joined us for the new Round Table episode to discuss what being a game designer means and talk about a game design course at CG Spectrum online school.
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Troy Dunniway is an award-winning Game Designer and the current Department Head of Game Design at CG Spectrum online school
80 Level Interview https://80.lv/articles/teaching-game-design-with-troy-dunniway/
Mentor Page https://www.cgspectrum.com/mentors/troy-dunniway
CG Spectrum https://www.cgspectrum.com/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/tdunniway/
Troy's Stream Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwlTW6zhautj1LngreEjUldIVKfodIlVu
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Troy Dunniway is an award-winning Game Designer and Executive with over 25 years of game development experience at major companies like Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Insomniac, Disney, and Samsung. He has shipped 100+ titles on almost every platform and genre.
Troy designed or oversaw bestselling games like Rainbow Six Vegas, Munch’s Oddysee, Mercenaries, Age of Empires 3, Command and Conquer 3, Roller Coaster Tycoon Mobile, and more.
The designer joined us for the new Round Table episode to discuss what being a game designer means and talk about a game design course at CG Spectrum online school.
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Troy Dunniway is an award-winning Game Designer and the current Department Head of Game Design at CG Spectrum online school
80 Level Interview https://80.lv/articles/teaching-game-design-with-troy-dunniway/
Mentor Page https://www.cgspectrum.com/mentors/troy-dunniway
CG Spectrum https://www.cgspectrum.com/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/tdunniway/
Troy's Stream Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwlTW6zhautj1LngreEjUldIVKfodIlVu
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This video is sponsored by Xsolla, a global video game commerce company with a robust and powerful set of tools and services designed specifically for the video game industry: http://xsolla.pro/8023
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