Griffin Dean is currently a senior in the DigiPen Institute of Technology’s Bachelor of Arts in Game Design Program.  He is passionate about making games and has been from a very young age.  In 2013, Griffin’s solo projects, The Lift, was selected to help represent DigiPen at PAX 2013.  Griffin is from Los Angeles, California, but now resides in Seattle, Washington.

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Interests

• Architecture
• Design
• Folklore
• Folk Music
• Game History
• Genealogy
  
• Historical Games
• Linguistics
• Military History
• Philosophy
• Psychology
• Rhetoric
• Sociology
• World History (Especially Early Modern, Medieval, Irish, Scottish, English, and Roman).
• Writing

Games & Design

Interesting Articles
MDA (Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics)
Cognitive Flow

Developers
Wolfire Games
TaleWorlds Entertainment

Games
War of the Roses: Kingmaker
Thief: The Dark Project
TES: Morrowind
F.E.A.R.
Empire Earth II
Warhammer 40k
Mount & Blade: Warband
Dungeons & Dragons
Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders
Medieval Total War 2

Hobbies

Crafts

• Shillelagh Making
  
• Game-board Making

Language Study

• Middle English

         Example
         Peirs Plowman 
         The Canterbury Tales
         Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

• Scots Leid (Lowland Scottish Language)

         A Brief History of Scots
         Scots Dictionary
         The Brus

• Gaeilge (Irish Language)

         Teilifis na Gaeilge Ceithair (National Irish Language Station)
         Example

Martial Arts

• German Longsword

         Demonstration 

• Irish Shillelagh

         Demonstration

• Kickboxing
• Rondel Dagger

         Demonstration

Other

• Calligraphy

         The Book of Kells

• Collecting and Learning Folk songs.

          Francis Child
          Twa Sisters (Child Ballad #10)
          Mormond Braes