Game Education Summit North America

Roberto Dillon was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1973 and holds a Master and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Genoa. After having worked both in the software/multimedia development industry and in prestigious academic institutions across Europe and Asia, including KTH in Sweden and NTU in Singapore, he joined the Singapore campus of the DigiPen Institute of Technology where he is currently an Assistant Professor lecturing a variety of game design subjects including “Game Mechanics” and “Game History”.

Roberto has led high profile research projects on innovative game mechanics and designed serious, educational and experimental games that were showcased internationally on newspapers like “USA Today” and at events like the “Sense of Wonder Night” within the Tokyo Game Show. He is the author of “On the Way to Fun: an emotion based approach to successful game design”, and "The Golden Age of Videogames: the birth of a multi-billion dollar industry", both published by AKPeters.