Author: Brenda Schlageter

Released on Steam: A Small Robot Story by Rob Mostyn

A Small Robot Story is an adventure-platformer where you play as Rae, a small robot who activates and has no idea why. So you need to set out and find out what’s up! With a heavy emphasis on story, A Small Robot Story will take you through forests, factories, caves, laboratories, and more as you […]

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RIT professor launches table-top games to enhance people’s understanding of religion

‘Lost and Found’ games aim to change the legal discourse about religious legal systems, increase collaboration and cooperation A team of interdisciplinary researchers, designers and developers led by Owen Gottlieb, an assistant professor of interactive games and media at Rochester Institute of Technology, has produced two first-of-their-kind table-top games that aim to promote and enhance […]

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Four RIT faculty and staff alumni will receive Golden Brick Award

 RIT will recognize four faculty and staff alumni with the Golden Brick Award at this year’s Faculty and Staff Alumni Breakfast and Golden Brick Awards Ceremony.The event starts at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 16, in the Gene Polisseni Center Lobby. The award ceremony will take place from 9 to 10 a.m. following a complimentary […]

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FOSS@MAGIC Talks – Open Source @ Facebook with Christine Abernathy

Inside Facebook’s Open Source Program Facebook builds hundreds of projects to make sure the company’s services work smoothly. We’ve learned that through openness and collaboration, we can tackle today’s most complex engineering challenges faster than if we did it alone. Open source has become fundamental to how Facebook continues to move fast and operate at […]

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A Match Made in Mario: Dr. Stephen Slota

 In his talk “A Match Made in Mario: The Sometimes Confusing (but Extremely Rewarding) Relationship Between Cognition, Learning, and Games,” Dr. Slota will discuss the learning science principles of games and game-based learning from an educational psychology perspective. He will also debunk some long-standing education myths and describe the many challenges of making compelling educational […]

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