Author: Aaron Cloutier

Can the MAGIC Center publish my game/app/digital creation?

Yes! One of the primary reasons we established MAGIC Spell Studios was to act as a third-party publisher for student and faculty work. We’re engaged with major distribution networks such as iTunes, Google Play, XBOX Live, etc. and are in the process of establishing channels and protocols for this activity. We’re essentially providing resources, personnel, […]

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What kinds of resources are available in the MAGIC lab?

The MAGIC Center features a wide array of hardware and software that we use in constructing our digital media experiments. The main lab features 22 stations equipped with dual-screen (one touchscreen) Alienware workstations with the Adobe Creative Cloud, Autodesk Entertainment Suite, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Unity, and numerous other software and development environments. Each station is […]

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Who can use the MAGIC Center?

The resources of the MAGIC Center are available to the entire campus community, with some caveats. While the building, and laboratory, are open to all RIT faculty and students pursuing digital media development, our affiliates, partners and projects have first priority. Specifically, we have established a policy hierarchy that students engaged in funded projects (i.e. […]

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RIT’s MAGIC Center Hosts NY State Senate Select Committee on Science, Technology, Incubation & Entrepreneurship

On October 22, the RIT MAGIC Center is proud to host a discussion with the NY State Senate Select Committee on Science, Technology, Incubation and Entrepreneurship, and with NY State Senator Martin Golden (chair of the committee).  As a part of the event, several regional and national partners of the Center have been invited to participate, […]

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Conservation Gaming

Last spring semester, RIT students collaborated with conservators from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to make educational games about art conservation. Led by Associate Professors Elizabeth Goins and Christopher Egert, the students divided into three interdisciplinary teams to make video games that focused on objects from the museum’s collection. Each game required an enormous amount […]

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RIT announces investments in MAGIC Spell Studios

RIT today announced $12 million in funding from New York state, $3 million from Dell and $12.4 million from Cisco Systems Inc. that will be used to grow MAGIC Spell Studios, a university program that will link RIT’s internationally ranked academic programs with high-tech facilities needed to commercialize computer gaming, film and animation, graphic design […]

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Related Publications

Decker, A., Egert, C.,  Phelps, A., and McDonough, J., “Technical Properties of Play: A Technical Analysis of Significant Properties for Video Game Preservation”, inProceedings from the 2012 IEEE International Games Innovation Conference, Rochester, NY, pp. 56-59, September 7-9, 2012 Elizabeth Goins, ‘Art History in the 21st Century: The Integration of Museum Collections and Social Networking […]

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