Instructor Introduction Richard Eberhardt
RICHARD EBERHARDT: My name's Rick Eberhardt. I'm the studio manager for the MIT Game Lab. I've been with the lab since 2007, 2006, so since we formed a long, long time ago. Before I worked at the lab, most of my background has been doing information technology for academics, institutes, so colleges and universities. I always had an interest in games. I actually had a cultural studies degree in college for my undergrad. So coming to the lab, working at the lab for that first year as a system administrator really opened my eyes to all the different things games can do and the different potentials games have, but also made me realize I can actually start making these kinds of things on my own too. So since I've started working at the lab, I've taken on more duties related to project management, things I'd already done a lot in IT-- managing people managing projects. I teach this Creating Video Games course, and for the most part in the course, I'm...