Chaim Gingold (born January 15, 1980 in Haifa, Israel) is noted for his work with the

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, where he designed the game's creators, including the Spore Creature Creator. Chaim was also a key member of Spore's design and prototyping team. He has presented at the Game Developers Conference and is an active participant in the academic game studies community. Gingold grew up in

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. He attended West Virginia University, where he studied computer science, English, and art. After college, Gingold headed to the

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where he joined the Information Design and Technology Masters program. His dissertation was entitled "Miniature Gardens & Magic Crayons: Games, Spaces, & Worlds" and was supervised by noted scholar

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. Gingold lives in Berkeley, California, USA and is a Ph.D student in Computational Media at UC Santa Cruz. In January 2015, Gingold released ''Earth Primer'', an interactive science book that simulates processes of the Earth.

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Chaim Gingold's web page
American video game designers Jewish video game developers Israeli computer programmers Israeli emigrants to the United States Israeli Jews Georgia Tech alumni West Virginia University alumni Morgantown High School alumni People from Haifa 1980 births Living people {{videogame-bio-stub