Did we forget something?
Contact Jennifer Hinton, Assistant Director of the MAGIC Center with your question, and we will do our best to get it answered! If it’s one that we get a lot (or one that we just like) we’ll be sure to post it here.
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, […]
Is the MAGIC Center the Student Center for Innovation?
In a word, no. The CSI was a former administrative entity that used to reside in Student Innovation Hall. In the spring of 2013, that entity merged with the Simone Center to form the Simone Center of Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship. While the Simone Center still occupies a portion of Innovation Hall, the MAGIC Center […]
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 […]
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. […]
Where is MAGIC located?
The physical offices of MAGIC are in Student Innovation Hall, Building 87, on campus at RIT in W. Henrietta, NY (see map). Virtually, we exist at magic.rit.edu, on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and similar services. Affiliate researchers in MAGIC have access to digital tools and systems from anywhere in the world.
What is MAGIC?
Magic is a digital media research center at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and contains within it a research laboratory (the RIT Laboratory for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction & Creativity), and a production studio (MAGIC Spell Studios, LLC.)