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Board game renaissance: UW-Stout professor puts the pieces in place for successful game design business
16 Feb 2026
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The gift of a board game, a visit to a historic distillery and a sleepless night during a sabbatical in Scotland combined to inspire UW-Stout Professor Dave Beck to create a successful game design business.
These experiences also transformed Beck’s approach to teaching students in UW-Stout’s game design and development programs. Whether they come from the artistic or computer science sides of game design, students make their way to Beck’s Introduction to Game Design course, where he stresses the fundamentals. And good design, he emphasizes, doesn’t have to start on a computer.
“It’s really the concept of the design and creating a system and a series of problems and challenges for a player to overcome,” Beck said. “That can happen on paper, or it can happen in pixels.”
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