{"id":2792,"date":"2022-03-18T17:34:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T17:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lift.do\/?p=2792"},"modified":"2022-03-27T06:03:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T06:03:06","slug":"who-is-amy-jo-kim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lift.do\/who-is-amy-jo-kim\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Amy Jo Kim?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Amy Jo Kim is a game designer and game thinking consultant who has been working for a number of years with game designers, game makers, and organizations to help them realize their game design potential. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amy Jo is the author<\/a> of the Game Design Foundations book series (Game Thinking: Innovate smarter & drive deep engagement with design techniques from hit games<\/a> and Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities<\/a>), a founder of the Game Developers Conference Games & Playable Media group, and the founder of the Game Developers Conference Playable Games group, which focuses on the challenges and opportunities of creating playable games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n She is also the co-founder of the Agency for Play, an advocacy organization to expand the positive impact of games in society and improve access to game design education. Amy Jo has consulted with organizations as small as a few people and as large as the US military<\/a> and has worked with game developers in the fields of<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amy Jo Kim is a game designer and academic, who has spent the past decade studying and designing games. She teaches game design at DigiPen Institute of Technology<\/a> and New York University and is a co-founder of the Game Playwright Institute, a non-profit focused on training game designers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n She has worked with companies like Google, IDEO<\/a>, and Nokia<\/a>, and has consulted for studios like Gamelab<\/a> and Niantic<\/a>. She is a frequent speaker at game conferences and game design meetups and is the author of the book Game Thinking, which explores game design from the perspective of a designer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amy Jo Kim is a passionate game creator and designer. She\u2019s the founder and CEO of game studio and design studio, Playdom.com<\/a>, and is building Playdom\u2019s first game, Playdom Forge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n She\u2019s also the author of Game Thinking<\/a>: A Playdom Design Manifesto. Amy Jo is committed to building the next generation of video game creators and the Playdom design philosophy is an extension of that mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWorks<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n