Gingold was also a key member of Spore's design and prototyping team.

He attended West Virginia University, where he studied computer science, English, and art.

[2] His dissertation was entitled "Miniature Gardens & Magic Crayons: Games, Spaces, & Worlds" and was supervised by noted scholar Janet Murray.

In 2016, he got a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz with a thesis "Play Design".

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