Mr. YIM, Chun Pang 嚴振鵬

Position:	Teaching Fellow
Phone:	3442 6022
E-mail:	CPANGYIM@cityu.edu.hk
Bldg Rm:	IC-SCM04

Academic Qualifications:

B.E. in Software Engineering (Hon), University of Melbourne, Australia B.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Melbourne, Australia

Background:

Pang joined Blue Tongue Entertainment (Australia) in 1996 as one of the founding engineers of the company. The company specialises in cross-platform computer game development (PC, X-Box, PS2, GC, GBA, PSP, NDS), and have been working with Ericsson, Electronic Arts (US), Hasbro Interactive (US), THQ (US), Universal Studio (US), etc.  Pang has been involved in the following projects: "AFL Final Fevers," (1996) Designer and Senior Software Engineer (PC); "Starship Trooper: Terrain Ascendancy," (2000) Senior Software Engineer (PC); "Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis," (2003) Senior Software Engineer (PC, X-Box, PS2), which won the Australia Game Developer Conference (AGDC) Awards 2003, Best Game for Next Generation Consoles Award, Best Game Audio Award, Best Level Design Award and the Outstanding Visual Arts Award. Before joining SCM, Pang has been working in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Multimedia Innovation Center (MIC) / School of Design (SD) as a lecturer in Game Design / Game Development.

Professional Expertise / Research Interests:

Ludology Game Design / Game Development Computer game project management / QA Game artificial intelligence

Consultancy / Community / Professional Services / Awards:

2005	Computer Games Committee Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH (Hong Kong Chapter). Advisor and judge for the "40th Anniversary Celebration Mobile Game Competition" for School of Continuing Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Guest Speaker for the 'iX' Creative Forum, organized by the Hong Kong Society of Illustrators and Hong Kong Productivity Council. Topic: "From Illustration to Animation". Guest speaker for the seminar organized by the Chinese University of Hong Kong – Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Community College College. Topic: "Producing AAA Game Titles – Experience Sharing". Advisor, judge and guest speaker for the "Student Game Design Concept Competition 2005" (中學生電腦遊戲意念創作賽2005) seminar organized by the Shatin IVE. Judge for the "Symbian Competition for Mobile Phones 2004"
2004	Guest speaker for the "Xbox Games Incubation Programme" seminar organized by the HKSAR Government, Xbox Microsoft Corporation and the Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Ltd and Digital Media Center. Topic: "Xbox game development"
2003	Guest speaker for the Department of Multimedia & Internet Technology of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi campus). Topic: "Computer Game Design" Australia Game Developer Conference (AGDC) Awards 2003 "Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis" received:    - Award for Best Game for Next Generation Consoles    - Award for Best Game Audio    - Award for Best Level Design    - Award for Outstanding Visual Arts Blue Tongue Entertainment awarded the "2003 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Winners - Australia's most dynamic, fast growing technology companies". (Ranked 36th). Blue Tongue Entertainment awarded the Commendation - 2003 Governor of Victoria Export Awards (ICT).
2002	Advisory Board Member of Computer Graphics Interest Group (CGiG) Hong Kong. Guest speaker at The Great China Computer Game and Video Game Summit (GTEC 2002). Topic: "You want to get into game development". Blue Tongue Entertainment was the Finalist of 2002 Telstra Small Business Awards.
2001	Guest speaker at The Great China Computer Game and Video Game Summit (GTEC 2001). Topic: "Postmortem: Blue Tongue Software's Starship Trooper".

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