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DANG!!  

That's awesome! Count me in John...Can I get the next invite?!?  

I would fit in nicely ;O)


What did you guys talk about?  Any future plans for Microsoft to get more college students involved?  

Is Microsoft starting to get colleges like Brown to use their XNA platform for easy transition into Microsoft Game Studios?

Man, coming back from marketing, and seeing this...I am jealous!  

Wow.. I go to Brown College for Game Design and our class wasn't asked to go to Microsoft. What kind of BS, is that?

Time to e-mail the Dean of Game Design at the school.

I second the "That's awesome" comment...and yes, MS treats eggheads really well, but they treat us regular folks well too. ;p

What's up with that controller with extra buttons you have in the photos?

The controller is what Randy uses to play games.  They hook it up to the mouthpiece on his wheelchair, and he can outfrag the best of 'em.  

That is very cool - interactive programs at Universities have been growing pretty dramatically over the past couple years - and it MS should definitely reach out to these.  

When I was at USC it was still relatively small - as I recall the film school had just established a relationship with EA for it's interactive program.  I remember one of my film classes spent a week on "non-linear storytelling" - at that time (before the PS2 came out) there was a lot of emphasis on branching storylines, and speculation on "interactive DVDs" (which never quite took off).  Ironically, most games these days are strictly linear, with the exceptions being GTA-like (or RPG) "free-roamers".  The Halo series is VERY linear - and the linearity is modeled after movies in fact.

But I digress...

I think MS should definitely reach out to universities.  Even go so far as to develop curriculum with the universities, and establish an education program for XNA Studio.

At film school, companies like Kodak were very involved with "student filmmaker" programs, offering scholarships, competitions, educational discounts and information specifically designed for students studying film.  Why not the same thing for games?  Why not Microsoft?

Kevin, please don't be upset with Chris LaBounty or Justin Spoelstra. The visit to the campus was not a Brown College event. I have been friends with the Xbox team for a long time and have been developing on the XNA project. I just brought a few of my friends with me. Just keep applying yourself, work hard, and you'll make it some day too. :)

It's great that more ethnicities are getting into gaming, but why all the pictures of the white guys?

Hah!!

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