Mark A. DeLoura (born 1969 or 1970) is a video gaming advocate and an author. He served as the Senior Advisor for Digital Media for the White House

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(OSTP), he was Editor in Chief of '' Game Developer'' magazine, and he has held various gaming-related positions at major companies including Sony, Nintendo, Ubisoft, THQ, and Google.

Career

DeLoura is a Game Developer's Conference Advisory Board Emeritus member after having served on the board for more than ten years, and is the author of the ''Game Programming Gems'' series of books. DeLoura has been the Vice President of Technology at

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, Technical Director of

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North America, Manager of Developer Relations at

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, Editor in Chief of '' Game Developer'' magazine, and Lead Engineer at

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. In 2010, he joined Google as a video game developer advocate. In 2013, DeLoura was appointed to the position of Senior Advisor for Digital Media at the White House

(OSTP). Started by the Obama administration, the position was created to understand how video games and media can be applied to improve education and engagement around civics, healthcare, education, and citizen science. In this role, DeLoura led the Federal Games Guild. On September 7, 2014, DeLoura hosted the first ever "Game Jam" to be held at the White House. This event was attended by 102 game developers divided into 23 teams, who created game prototypes in categories including science, math, healthcare, and politics. Attending developers included Playmatics,

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, Rovio, GlassLab (an

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joint project with educational institutions), the

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, BrainPOP, and game industry veteran

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. At the 2017

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, DeLoura was given the Ambassador's Award, recognizing his contributions to the video game industry.

References

External links

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Gamasutra Expert Blog – Mark DeLoura
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