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New LGI member Max Lieberman is student in the
Educational Technology Master’s program at the University of Arizona. He is a freelance web designer (www.crankybeardesign.com) and blogs about serious games and education at http://boomculture.blogspot.com. He's worked in journalism, public relations and corporate communications,
and lived most recently in Ohio, Boston and Philadelphia. He came
to the University of Arizona intending to use the Educational
Technology program to study education, instructional technology and
programming, so that he could one day work with school systems,
nonprofit organizations and other groups interested in creating custom
games. In the past, he has written and done scripting for mods of games
including Marathon (www.marathonrubicon.com) and Neverwinter Nights, and has always enjoyed drawing connections between seemingly disparate interests. Welcome aboard, Max!
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Membership in LGI is easy to obtain, but can be tough to retain. This is because we are a highly collaborative and productive organization. Our members travel all over the world to work on game studies projects and have both produced and collected a wide variety of materials related to game research. Among the advantages of joining LGI are: - access to active online discussions in which both beginning and accomplished game studies scholars and artists participate
- access to what is likely the largest game research bibliography in the world -- over 2,000 items and counting
- access to the LGI Research Archive, a collection of dozens of game systems and peripherals, hundreds of articles of memorabilia, and thousands of games
- access to the LGI Online Archive, a searchable database of all the items in the Research Archive
- access to constantly updated lists of game studies-related conference calls, invitations to publish, grants, and job listings
Of course, there's a price for so many amenities, but it's a reasonable one we think: you have to help build and maintain LGI. This might include: - leading workshops for teachers in Cleveland or O'ahu
- building 3D character models for the latest LGI game mod
- picking up the pizza for one of our Game Nights
- adding a box full of 3DO or Atari 2600 games to our online inventory system
- writing a scholarly article with another LGI member
- posting to the LGI forums
- a thousand other contributions that help keep a volunteer organization strong
Still interested and think you're up to it? If so,
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