It takes a village to make a video game. In the beginning, it is the game designer who develops the concept for the game, and while that designer may receive the lion’s share of the glory, a video game would not be come to fruition without the skills and talents of scriptwriters, animator, programmers, sound engineers, musical composers, voiceover artists, producers, etc. For Jesse Schell, assistant professor of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University, his path into the world of game development began at an early age.