Jesse Schell is the CEO of Schell Games, a team of more than one hundred fifty people who strive to make truly great games, both for the purposes of entertainment and education, including award-winning VR games such as Among Us VR and I Expect You To Die 1, 2 & 3. Jesse serves as Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University and is the author of the award-winning book The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses.
Education
MS-INI, Information Networking, Carnegie Mellon University 1993 Thesis: A Comparison of Networked Virtual Reality Architectures.
B.S., Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 1992
2023 EdTech Awards – Games for Learning/Simulation (Lost Recipes)
2023 Webby Award – Best Social Gaming Experience (Among Us VR)
2019 UploadVR Best VR of 2019 Best Visuals Award (Until You Fall)
2017 Auggie Award for best Augmented Reality Toy or Game (Happy Atoms)
2016 CEO of the Year – Pittsburgh Tech Council, November 2016
Elected President of the International Game Developers Association (2004-2005)
Publications
Schell, J., The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses. Elsevier Science, San Francisco, CA, 2008. 2nd Edition, 2014. 3rd Edition, 2019.
Schell, J., “Soviet Blocks” in American Scientist, Vol. 105, No. 1, January / February 2017.
Schell, J. Foreword to Understanding Kids, Play, and Interactive Design, by Mark Schlichting. Let’s Play Press, 2016.
Schell, J., Klug, G. C., “Building Virtual Worlds: Carrying on the Legacy of Randy Pausch’s ‘Head Fake’” in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 33, No. 3, May / June 2013.
Schell, J., “I <3 Mines of Minos”, in Well Played 1.0, Drew Davidson, editor. ETC Press, 2009.
