James Cook University, Singapore

Faculty Member, School of Business

Associate Professor

About

Roberto Dillon was born in Genoa, Italy and holds a Master and a Ph.D.
degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of
Genoa.
Over the years he worked in prestigious academic institutions across
Europe and Asia, including KTH in Stockholm and the DigiPen
Institute of Technology in Singapore. While at DigiPen, he served as
an Assistant Professor and Game Design Department Chair, teaching a
variety of subjects like Game Mechanics and Game History, with his
students gaining top honors at competitions like the IGF both in San
Francisco and Shanghai.
He is now an Associate Professor at the Singapore campus of
James Cook University where he teaches game design
subjects to both undergraduate and graduate students.

Since 2005 Roberto has led high profile research projects on innovative
game mechanics, designing serious and experimental games that
were showcased by the international press and at events like Sense
of Wonder Night in Tokyo and FILE Games in Rio de Janeiro.
He is also collaborating as Chief Game Designer with the Singaporean
studio Kentaura on a new breed of mobile and social network games.

Besides academic and development activities, Roberto is also the
author of "On the Way to Fun" and "The Golden Age of Video Games",
published by AKPeters and CRC Press in 2010 and 2011 respectively.

Research areas of interest:
- experimental gameplay mechanics for innovative human/computer interaction.
- models for game analysis and design.
- Relationships between Video Games and Art
- Metric driven game design and fine tuning

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