Authors

	Dr. Foo Chek Yang is lecturing at Temasek Polytechnic – Dip. in Game and Entertainment Technology. He’s been playing games for 25 years, and did his Ph.D in computer gaming. His interest areas are oriented around MMORPGs, especially player behavior, game design and operation. He has written several research papers and a book on grief play, which one can Google here. Outside gaming and lecturing, in his free time he writes music, cooks, and he blogs at his own site.
	Wee You is a student in Game & Entertainment Technology, Senior Year. He plays all sorts of game genres, such as MMOs, RPGS, and even sometimes casual games. He enjoys programming. Other than gaming and studying, he is interested in playing basketball, listening to music, and watching videos.
	Ricky is an avid gamer with many far fetched dreams, but one of it had became true when he became a student for Temasek Polytechnic’s Games and Entertainment Technologies course. He plays a lot of Role Playing Games, and a wide variety of multiplayer first person shooter games. But mostly, he plays Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games to fill up his time. His biggest dream is to infiltrate either Kojima Productions or Square-Enix.
	Jonathan Tiang is a freshman in the GET course. He enjoys reading, music, drawing, dancing, and gaming. He usually plays first person shooters, but there are several games in other genres that sometimes tickle his fancy. Other games from the same genres may not generate much interest in him, so he’s not too sure that it’s the genre that affects him… He’s not very outgoing person, preferring to keep to himself. This is mainly because he enjoys his silence over the loud rackets that groups of people can make. If needed to, he can tolerate them, or even enjoy it if he feels like it, but he’s mostly a one-track guy, so telling him to join in the “fun” when he’s trying to read would usually be futile…
	Zhi Xiang is a TP GET current freshman. He loves playing computer games, especially strategy games like the Total War series and Civilisation IV but also loves other genres of games like FIFA 09 and Left 4 Dead. He plays the guitar and also goes to Facebook to play games like Restaurant City, Mousehunt and Mafia Wars. He is more of an outgoing person to his friends and likes to know new people. He can be serious if he wants to but likes to have fun too. His greatest dream is to make a classic game and the companies he want to go to are EA, Microsoft and Ubisoft mainly.
	Nasyirah, one of the few girls in the GET course for freshman year is a sociable and open person who loves challenges. Her passion for games started about 6 years ago and she currently enjoys playing World of Warcraft, a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG). She also enjoys other first person shooter games such as Counter Strike and Left 4 Dead. Besides her interest in gaming, she appreciates photography and music. Although GET was not what she had expected to be enrolled into initially, her experience here in TP so far had been rather fulfilling and she hopes to gain more exposure in the games industry in this 3 year course.
	Aaron is a student in Game & Entertainment Technology, year 1. He has grown up from an ‘uber-geek’ to a more mellow ‘occasional geek’. Having spent much of his life exposed to different concepts and ideas, he constantly improves himself mentally and has an insatiable appetite for knowledge. His current interests are in personality psychology, japanese culture, philosophy and the search for the next big game innovation. You can usually find him with book in hand, pondering about the future of gaming…or just what to have for dinner.

Past Authors

Samuel was a senior-year student of Game and Entertainment Technology. He enjoys playing games, especially MMO (Massively-Multiplayer-Online) games of the RPG (Role-Playing-Games) variety. He also likes programming in C++. Aside from these computer related activities, he plays the guitar and enjoys listening to music. Samuel graduated from GET in May 2009.

Coburn, Game and Entertainment Technology; a self-confessed geek making the best out of his final year in Temasek Polytechnic. He spends his time behind his laptop on the internet researching on his favourite subjects. Coburn also spends much of his time visualizing his preferred future and life as well as wondering what the future lies for him. He often wonders about the alternatives in life. Subject also has a known soft-spot for food: He travels from faculty to faculty to purchase the best food and drink he has a taste for but has left Temasek Engine School “untouched” due to rumours. Coburn has great plans for his future and is currently laying the foundation for his glorious future…Coburn graduated from GET in May 2009.