MAGIC Spell Studios is pleased to announce a new title in development, Hack Slash & Backstab. HSB is a multi-player arcade dungeon crawler with a twist! We’ve all been there: stack ranking, team projects, student or employee evaluations on a curve – groups of people that need each other, but that are evaluated individually to […]
The minor is designed to allow any student across the institute to become a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and Free Culture (FC) contributor, project leader, community manager and/or departmental resource for other students and faculty. The minor is administered through the RIT School of Interactive Games & Media, and involves courses from both […]
OLPC was the Trojan Horse to Open Source for Professor Stephen Jacobs, director of RIT’s Lab for Technological Literacy (LTL), the entity in which the FOSS@MAGIC (previously FOSS@RIT) was originally born. Intrigued by the OLPC Jacobs acquired three OLPC XO 1.0 laptops in 2007 via the first “Give One, Get One” program. His intent was […]
Bio: Kendra Albert is a third-year JD candidate at Harvard Law School. When not in class, she co-runs the interdisciplinary discussion group Angry Tech Salon and its sister video game discussion group, ATS Plays. Before starting school, she worked as a research associate at the Berkman Center. She’s also done stints at CloudFlare, Zeitgeist Legal […]
Bio: Jacob Silverman is the author of Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Connection. A contributing editor for The Baffler, he has written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and many other publications. He lives in New York. Talk title: What Machines Know: Surveillance Anxiety and Digitizing the […]
Rochester Institute of Technology has been named one of three Digital Gaming Hubs in New York state by Empire State Development. The Digital Gaming Hubs, which also include Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and New York University, will receive $150,000 each, per year for three years. Full Article from RIT News
Super Daryl Deluxe takes top prize at two national competitions! Read about the Super Daryl Deluxe team in the RIT Research Magazine.
RIT students and faculty working in a variety of disciplines have studied virtual reality as a way to enhance the user experience in game design and development, film and animation and imaging science. In January, the Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity (MAGIC) will serve as a home base for developers and practitioners […]
For over fifteen years, Dr. Mary Chayko has investigated the experience of digital connectedness – how it feels, how bonds and groupings are made and maintained online, and how the online and the offline intersect in people’s everyday lives. She finds that the online, digital realm is experienced as real in every way — emotional, […]
ABSTRACT:The Internet gets blamed for a lot of things, chief among them for the rise in rudeness, cyber-bullying and harassment. Thing is, it hasn’t caused any of this. The people who act poorly on the Internet generally act poorly in real life, too. We just didn’t have to see, talk or ever interact with most […]
Just Press Play is an achievement system developed in RIT’s School of Interactive Games & Media, which adds a game layer to our undergraduates’ daily life. It is intended to encourage students to engage in a playful way with their educational environments and experiences, to reflect on their accomplishments, and to strengthen their sense of competence […]
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