Academic Career
In 1998, Christopher Erhardt transitioned into an academic environment and became a Professor of Game Design and Production at DigiPen Institute of Technology. In 2000 he was responsible for co-creating, with Alex Dunne, the student submissions category of the Game Developers Conference Independent Games Submission (www.indiegames.com). In 2002 he moved to Beirut, Lebanon and spent 2 years teaching game software design and production to French and Arabic speaking computer engineering students. In 2005, upon his return to the US, he approached Valve to develop a Level Design program at DigiPen using their FPS engine. In 2006 he worked with Microsoft Game Studios to bring XNA product development into DigiPen and inaugurated one of the first series of C#/XNA Game Studio Express product development programs at an accredited academic institution.
In 2007 Christopher Erhardt left DigiPen Institute of Technology and moved to India to head ISOG.
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