Frameless Labs
Frameless Labs is a newly formed organization on campus with a goal to bring together all research, innovation, and artistic creations surrounding the mediums of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.
Rob Mostyn
RIT Digital Game Hub Coordinator Email: rob -at- magic.rit.edu
MAGIC at GDC 2017
It’s that crazy time of year again, we’ll be at GDC 2017! We’re once again hosting a booth on the show floor, this time showing Gibralter (a finalist in the 2016 US Imagine Cup games category) and Hack, Slash & Backstab (which we published this summer on XBOX and STEAM). We’re also highlighting our work […]
MAGIC heads to GDC2017
With Rochester Institute of Technology celebrating a milestone year in the game design and development industry, more than 100 RIT students, faculty, alumni and staff will travel to San Francisco this week to participate in the Game Developers Conference 2017, the world’s largest professional gaming industry event of the year. Read more on our presence […]
Monica McGill
Abstract: They Aren’t Like Me: Developing a Meaningful Game for “Them” Game design and development students at Bradley University recently created Wake Up, Koala!, a game designed to raise awareness for Sjögren’s Syndrome, an auto-immune disorder that affects millions of Americans. The project produced a game that is not only valuable to those affected, but […]
RIT Launches MAGIC Spell Studios Facility
RIT celebrated the launch and groundbreaking of the new MAGIC Spell Studios facility. University and NY State officials were on hand for the event, as well as representatives from Dell, Cisco, and other partners and collaborators. University press coverage is located here and MAGIC is providing an overview page of the new facility, complete with […]
MAGIC Hosts Karthik and Guha Bala
In conjunction with the official launch of RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studios facility, RIT’s Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity presents a free talk by local video-game developers and entrepreneurs Karthik and Guha Bala from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14, in RIT’s Student Innovation Hall as special guests of the Director. Karthik […]
An afternoon with Guha and Karthik Bala
This is your opportunity to hear from our friends, brothers Karthik and Guha Bala, who co-founded Vicarious Visions (VV) in 1991 while both were in high school in Rochester, NY. VV has since grown to become an industry-leading game developer, helping to shape popular culture around the world. In 2005 Vicarious Visions was acquired by […]
Clive Burdon
Title: An introduction to the producer role or… how to be invisible and effective by Clive Burdon Abstract: Vicarious Visions is a creator of hit video games with its studio based near Albany, New York. To date, VV has sold over 40 million games worldwide. VV has shaped popular culture with hit video game titles […]
MAGIC Launches Hack, Slash & Backstab
Rochester Institute of Technology will become the first university to publish a video game on the Xbox One gaming platform when Hack, Slash & Backstab is officially launched at noon on Wednesday, Aug. 31. The game, which will be available for purchase for $4.99, will also debut simultaneously on the Steam platform and be available […]
MAGIC NMC 2016 Reception
As a part of hosting the NMC 2016 Summer Conference here in Rochester, we will be opening up our doors for the evening reception on Wednesday June 15th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at the MAGIC Center (located in RIT Innovation Hall, building 87). In addition to food and drink, you’ll be able to mingle, […]
NMC 2016 Kenote
MAGIC is proud to welcome our friend and colleague, Dr. Constance Steinkuehler, to give the plenary address at NMC 2016. Dr. Steinkuehler is an international expert in games and learning, and among many other accolades is the Co-Director of the Games+Learning+Society Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she is also an Associate Professor of Curriculum and […]