At the moment I’m very busy with writing my bachelor thesis about how to integrate Scrum with student project teams to prepare them for the games industry when founding their own games development studio using their game project as proof of qualification.

Me and my fellow students are also finishing our game project for our bachelor’s degree. We are looking forward to (hopefully)presenting a nicely polished vertical slice at GDC Europe and gamescom trade fair in Colonge, Germany at the Mediadesign University booth this year (August 17 – 23). Feel free to visit us if you are around!

So these are the reasons my blog somehow got a little bit neglected lately. But stay tuned, I will be back in about four weeks with lots of stuff to write about. Especially continuing my series of articles “Managing Student Game Projects”.

So what’s it all about? Basically I’ll try to regularly update it with my thoughts on game design and game development.

Why did I chose this particular topic? Because I think that games are the next step in media evolution. And although the industry around this interactive media is already huge, the medium itself has yet to mature. But this is only possible if people start thinking about games and what they are all about. So when I decided to study “Game Design” at Mediadesign University of Applied Sciences in Munich, Germany, I did not only want to start developing games but also learn about the things behind the scenes of this fascinating medium. I hope this blog will allow me to share my thoughts on game design and development with many people at least as passionate about this topic as me.

What to expect? I will try to post on at least a semi-monthly basis. Since I mayself am very interested in team and project management, game design, storytelling and a little bit of coding, I will mostly write about these topics. I am also looking for a nice design and working on additional pages about me and the stuff I am doing.