About

My new site: http://chaim.io.

Hello, my name is Chaim Gingold, and this is my new online home. While I’m fleshing out this new site, you are welcome to learn more about me and my work by visiting my old site.

You can email me here: cg [at] levitylab.com.

Bio

Chaim Gingold is a computer scientist and interactive designer by training. By trade, he is a computer game designer and digital toymaker. He studied with Janet Murray at Georgia Tech, where he earned an MS in Digital Media. As a key member of Spore’s prototyping and design team, Gingold worked closely with Will Wright at Maxis/EA, designing the game’s award winning creative tool suite. Currently, he is wrapping up development on Earth Primer, an interactive geology book that teaches through play; works as an independent game developer and design consultant; is completing a PhD at UC Santa Cruz on design, computation, and play; and works at the the Communications Design Group / SAP Labs.