Game Designer at Zynga
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Game Designer at Zynga
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- Game Designer / Columnist at The Escapist
- Columnist / Professional Blogger at Joystiq
- Game Design Intern at area/code
- Game Design Intern at area/code
- Correspondent at Game Politics
- Education
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- Bard College
- University College Dublin
- L'Institut de Touraine
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Scott Jon Siegel’s Experience
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Game Designer
Zynga
(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Conceptualize new social gaming titles, as well as updates to existing Zynga properties; draft detailed documentation, wireframes and other details for social games on Facebook, MySpace, iPhone and iPod touch. Lead Designer on Scramble Live for iPhone and iPod touch.
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Game Designer / Columnist
The Escapist
(Computer Games industry)
July 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 5 months)
Designed non-digital games for publication on website; delivered detailed postmortems on design process as part of monthly column.
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Columnist / Professional Blogger
Joystiq
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Writing and Editing industry)
September 2006 — July 2008 (1 year 11 months)
Composed daily news reports, features, event coverage, and interviews for prominent video game blog; Contributed bi-weekly "Off the Grid" column, focused on delivering reviews and various features on non-digital gaming to Joystiq's vast readership.
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Game Design Intern
area/code
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)
June 2007 — September 2007 (4 months)
Assisted in the development and playtesting of large-scale ARGs and advergames; wrote creative copy for Sharkrunners [http://sharkrunners.com]; collaborated in design of Chain Factor [http://chainfactor.com].
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Game Design Intern
area/code
(Computer Games industry)
June 2006 — August 2006 (3 months)
Assisted in the development of large-scale urban games; provided creative feedback; playtested; maintained company’s blog;
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Correspondent
Game Politics
(Computer Games industry)
September 2005 — March 2006 (7 months)
Contributed news coverage to political games blog.
Scott Jon Siegel’s Education
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Bard College
B.A. , Integrated Arts , 2003 — 2007
Four years studying Literature and the Integrated Arts, with a concentration in game design; completed senior thesis entitled "Designing for Design," focused on creating a theoretical academic curriculum for teaching game design.
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University College Dublin
English, Linguistics 2006 — 2006
One semester as an international student studying English and Linguistics; January, 2006 to May, 2006.
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L'Institut de Touraine
2005 — 2005
Four-week, intensive French program involving thirty hours in-class time per week, and home-stay; June 2005.
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Scott Jon Siegel’s Honors:
Recipient, International Game Developers Association Student Scholarship for GDC 2007.
