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UC Santa Cruz taps Journey co-creator Robin Hunicke to teach game development

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Journey co-creator Robin Hunicke has joined the University of California at Santa Cruz campus as an associate professor of Art & Game Design.

She will join the faculty in January and will help lead the new interdisciplinary undergraduate program in Games and Playable Media at UC Santa Cruz. She will also continue to lead her game startup, Funomena. She will be one of a number of prominent game developers — like Brenda Romero and John Romero — who teach game design at the university.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.