Social Game Designer with a penchant for puns and portmanteaus. Also, alliteration.
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Game Designer at Playdom
- Past
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- Game Designer at Zynga
- Game Designer / Columnist at The Escapist
- Columnist / Professional Blogger at Joystiq
- 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
Playdom
(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)
September 2009 — Present (3 months)
Working on the next generation of great social games.
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Game Designer
Zynga
(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)
June 2008 — September 2009 (1 year 4 months)
Conceptualized new social gaming titles, as well as updates to existing Zynga properties; drafted documentation, wireframes and other details for social games on Facebook, MySpace, iPhone and iPod touch. Lead Designer on World Scramble for iPhone and iPod touch. Contributing Designer on Café World, as well as numerous other projects, including Texas Hold'em Poker, Word Twist, and Scramble.
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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
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(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 Groups:
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Social Game Developers
Scott Jon Siegel’s Honors:
Recipient, International Game Developers Association Student Scholarship for GDC 2007.
