A.V. follows the adventure of a sentient music program living in a computer system – a program seeking to learn more about itself and its world. But since our hero was only programmed to understand sound, that’s the only way he can interact with his environment. Each sound you generate can be seen as a […]
NYS Game Challenge The video game industry is hoping to get a production tax credit into this year’s final budget after the governor vetoed a similar measure last year because it wasn’t part of the budget. Both the Senate and Assembly included the credit in their one-house resolutions. And several colleges have joined in the […]
Video Game Developers: New York Must Nurture Industry Growth ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Upstate New York is home to one of the country’s top training centers for video game design, but developers say New York will miss out on its chunk of a nearly $100 billion video game industry if it doesn’t encourage companies to […]
by Scott Bureau Rochester Institute of Technology is one of the top schools in the world to study game design and launch games for 2017, according to new international rankings from The Princeton Review. RIT’s game design and development program was ranked second at the undergraduate level and fourth at the graduate level. In 2016, […]
is a web application for teaching college level statistics through ASL videos and web games. The main target of this web application are Deaf and Hard of Hearing students. We’ve been making our first game called Mars University – a game based on population and statistics.
March 3, 2017by Vienna McGrain Note: Video available for this storyRochester Institute of Technology made a strong showing at the 2017 Intel University Games Showcase on March 2 where student John Miller presented his video game, Gibraltar, in front of students and faculty from the top game developer academic programs in the United States. Although […]
Adventure Guild The Mobile RPG You’ve Been Waiting For Adventure Guild is a social Roguelike RPG built for mobile devices. Party up with your friends to explore the farthest reaches of the world. Tackle tactically challenging turn-based combat that forces you to work as a team.
by Vienna McGrain Note: Video available for this story From the age of 12, John Miller knew that he wanted to design video games. In fact, he set a goal for himself to become a professional game developer by the time he turned 13. Although he missed that self-imposed deadline, Miller, a third-year game design […]
Student team: Abdulaziz Almerdasi (software engineering, Kuwait City, Kuwait) and Alex Christodoulou (software engineering, North Bergen, N.J.)
Student team: Jonathan Palmer (game design and development, Bolton, Mass.), Dillon Guscott (game design and development, Baldwin, N.Y.) and Kushagra Gupta (game design and development, Mumbai, India)
Student team: Sarah Bishop (game design and development, Annapolis, Md.), Becca Turgeon (game design and development, Temple, Texas), Diana Kim (illustration, Glenview, Ill.) and Lefan Shi (illustration, China)
Alec Satterly, a fourth-year management information systems major from Oreland, Pa., didn’t want to have to get up to close his blinds and turn off the lights. So with a team of six, he created Cenify, a company to help other companies make their products “smart.” By working with LED lighting company CleanLife, Cenify plans […]