This year’s North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA) conference will be on October 16-19 in Rochester, NY, home of The Strong National Museum of Play, the RIT MAGIC Center, and keynote speaker from last year, David Simkins!
The 2018 Rochester Game Festival will be held at the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Gene Polisseni Center on Saturday, September 15, from Noon to 5:00 PM. We’ll have more details to announce soon, but our second major event is going to be even bigger than last Fall’s Made In Rochester Game Festival. This time, we’re […]
Saturday, August 18th @ The Playhouse // Swillburger 820 Clinton Ave S, Rochester, New York 14620 , 7-9 PM. Our social meetup is meant for anyone to come and hang out, socialize, and chat with other game devs. No schedule or order of events. Just come and chill!
Come share projects and talk with other local game developers First Wednesday of every month 7-10pm MAGIC @ RIT – Room 1600
ROC Game Dev is hosting another game jam! A Game Jam is where you make a small game in an allotted amount of time. It is an excellent way to make your first game and a great way to work with other people. // WHEN // It will run from 9 am – 9 pm […]
RGD Workshop – Using Spine Assets in Unity: Wednesday, July 25th @ MAGIC, 7-9PM. Following last month’s Spine design workshop, this session will be focused on how to rapidly implement spine assets inside of a Unity 2D game. We will cover the basics of importing from Spine to to Unity, setting up Spine skeleton objects, running […]
David Long, associate professor in Rochester Institute of Technology’s College of Art and Design, has been appointed director of RIT’s Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity and MAGIC Spell Studios. Long, who earned his doctoral degree in color science from RIT in 2015, is founder and chair of the motion picture science program […]
RGD Co-Working Meetup: Saturday, July 21st @ Glen Edith, 11-2 PM. Show up with a laptop and co-work with other members of ROC Game Dev. Free and open to the public. Note: We will be meeting at the Elton St. Glen Edith location.
We host a monthly workshop on various topics related to game development. June 27th from 7PM-9PM MAGIC Lab @ RIT – Student Innovation Hall (SIH) Room 1600 ROC GAME DEV: Workshop – Animation in Spine This month’s workshop will focus on using Esoteric Software’s Spine for animation. Grab a trial version of Spine here: http://esotericsoftware.com/spine-download […]
The RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity (MAGIC), in conjunction with the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and the Higher Education Video Game Alliance (HEVGA) is excited to announce the “Electronic Entertainment Expo” (E3) College Game Competition” during E3 2018, June 12-14. Highlighting college and university programs on the video game industry’s biggest […]
Buffalo Game Expo is THE annual showcase of locally made games, hosted at Buffalo Game Space. Come play video games and board games created by the incredibly talented artists, designers, musicians, and programmers residing in and around Western New York, and even get to meet and chat with the creators! BGX is a 16+ (or […]
For this and future Co-work and Coffee, we’re getting back to basics and emphasizing the “Co-Work” part of this meetup. We will be running a mini-work… For this and future Co-work and Coffee, we’re getting back to basics and emphasizing the “Co-Work” part of this meetup. We will be running a mini-workshop for those who […]