LS
Lee Sheldon
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Associate Professor
Troy, NY
Associate Professor
Department of Communication and Media
Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Principal Investigator: Emergent Reality Lab
Author: Character Development and Storytelling for Games
Author: The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game
Lee Sheldon is a professional game writer and designer, and an Associate Professor in the Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Lee wrote the bestselling book The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game (2011); his book Character Development and Storytelling for Games (Second Edition, 2013) is the standard text in the field.
His current applied game projects include two games at Rensselaer: The Lost Manuscript 2: The Summer Palace Cipher, a virtual reality game teaching Mandarin and Chinese culture; and These Far Hills, a video game teaching engineering and science; plus a business ethics video game for Indiana University; and Secrets, an online game teaching culture and identity on the Internet for Excelsior College.
His most recent commercial game is the AAA Kinect title Fantasia: Music Evolved for Harmonix/Disney due out this year.
In a former life Lee wrote and produced over 200 popular television shows, including Star Trek: The Next Generation and Charlie's Angels.