MAGIC Spell Studios is a separate and distinct entity that allows us to engage as both a first party and third party publisher and distributor of games, apps, educational software, digital media, and associated services. It is intended to bridge the gap between academic research and commercial practice. It also serves as a fantastic ‘pre-incubator’ […]
Super Daryl Deluxe is a 2D comedy action-RPG that follows an orange headband- and bellbottom- wearing adolescent who is forced to spend the height of his awkward teenage years in a new school that has, unfortunately, been taken over by evil self-help authors. His name is Daryl, and he just wants to make friends.
HSB is a multi-player arcade dungeon crawler with a twist! We’ve all been there: stack ranking, team projects, student or employee evaluations on a curve – groups of people that need each other, but that are evaluated individually to the detriment of true teamwork. In Hack, Slash & Backstab, we adapt these broken models to […]
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 […]
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.
Chain Gang Chase is a video game coming to OUYA, and Desktop (and maybe Mobile, and Web!). It started as a hobby project by Joe Pietruch, and is growing into a much larger collaborative project with RIT faculty, students, and alumni. We launched a Kickstarter Campaign on October 18 which was funded in mid-November, with […]
Splattershmup is a game that explores the intersection of the classic shoot-em-up (or “shmup”) arcade game and gesturalized abstraction or “action painting” (a term coined by critic Harold Rosenburg in 1952 and often used to describe the work of American artist Jackson Pollock). It is intended to allow the player to reflect on their in-game […]
Dash is an open-source 3D game engine written in the D Programming Language. Designed to facilitate rapid development, Dash aims to assume the role of XNA & MonoGame. The engine is currently in development by Circular Studios, a group of RIT students. Dash is freely available on GitHub.
Memento is the latest game project from Blind Horizon Studios. Designed to be the next step in the free running puzzle genre, Memento will bring truly fluid action to an emotionally charged storyline. Playing as a police officer, players will be shown just how demanding the job can be, learning more about the rules, regulations, […]