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About Remi Eidson-Rodgers

Interactive experience designer and award-winning educator.

People are capable of more than they believe. My job has always been to build the space where they prove it.

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Bio

I tend to stay busy. I've spent more than 20 years in marketing, development and training, helping multimillion-dollar companies build their brands and engage their teams. Along the way I've worked as a professional pirate, a zombie and a Renaissance actor, and spent several years as lead producer on Armada Breakaway, a Second Life server.

These days I lead the award-winning game design program at Atkins High School, where I teach game theory, player psychology and level design. I'm also North Carolina's first Game Design Pathway Lead, and I founded the Camel City Game Jam.

I hold a B.A. in Business, IT Management from Western Governors University and an M.A.T. in Technology Education from NC A&T. Life is a grand adventure, and I live for the moment a student achieves something they thought was impossible.

Current roles

  • Studio Lead, Thursday Interactive
  • NC Game Design Pathway Lead, NC Department of Public Instruction
  • Game Design Program Lead, Atkins High School, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools

Practice

Credentials

  • State Program of the Year
  • NC Game Design Pathway Lead
  • M.A.T., Technology Education
  • National Conference Speaker
  • SBDC Marketing/Branding Lecturer
  • Unreal Engine Certified
  • Founder, Camel City Game Jam
  • Wood Badge

Speaking

  • NC DPI, September 2026: Teaching Game Design (for Absolute Beginners)
  • NC CTE Conference, July 2026: Playtest Your Classroom; The Group Project Problem; Best Practices for Maya 3D Modeling Education
  • NC CTE Conference, 2025: Course Design Using Game Theory
  • NC CTE Conference, July 2024: Integrated Game Design Curriculum
  • East Coast Game Conference, April 2023, and NC CTE Conference, July 2023: Teaching Gamers Like Games Do
  • Del Mar College SBDC, 2016 to 2017: workshops on marketing, management and human development

Availability

I'm open to speaking invitations and consulting projects. I'm also considering full-time leadership roles in higher education or instructional design.

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