We had a great time hosting the Webelows from Cub Scout Pack 65 Boy Scouts of America, Seneca Waterways Council last night! We facilitated a workshop to help them achieve an elective badge in game design. We had a blast and were super impressed with these future Rochester Institute of Technology students!
Come work and share your prototypes or ideas at our Work Night! This is a great opportunity to run ideas and prototype builds by others, get some solid play testing in-and give feedback to others! It’s also an excellent opportunity to meet other potential team mates!
In honor of our 5th Birthday, the RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction & Creativity is hosting an “open house” with cake, punch and giveaways from Noon-2:00PM on Thursday, February 15 in our current Student Innovation Hall location. Talk with our staff, some of our students and see what we have made together over […]
The NYS Game Dev Challenge is a statewide competition for both students and indie developers with the goal of bringing your game ideas to production. Entrants can register as either a student or indie developer (solo or team), with the latter category being open to any interested developer in NYS.
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), hardware, and content development can be the grounds for impressive technical feats — but they’re also spaces where radical political, social, legal, psychological, and cultural shifts can begin to take hold. This talk explores the interplay of four levels of “universe hacking” via (re)telling stories from FOSS projects both […]
Let’s have a party! Video game showcase starts at 7PM // Music at 9PM $7 under/$5 over Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 7 PM – 1 AM Bug Jar 219 Monroe Avenue Rochester, NY 14607
The NYS Game Dev Challenge is a statewide competition for both students and indie developers with the goal of bringing your game ideas to production. Entrants can register as either a student or indie developer (solo or team), with the latter category being open to any interested developer in NYS. The challenge will run from […]
Frameless Labs — a campus organization housed under the umbrella of the MAGIC Center at RIT — is organizing its second annual symposium as part of a continuing effort to foster community for augmented, mixed and virtual reality across RIT. The symposium will highlight research and innovation that use frameless mediums and their applications in areas such […]
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 […]
7th Annual Election Night Hackathon Tuesday, November 7th. 5:00pm-11pm Learn about civic hacking and watch the regional and national election results arrive in real time. Hear from speakers from Second Avenue Learning will discuss and demo their Elections Ed that uses real data from historical elections to allow you to run your own elections.
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 […]
Twitter depends on, contributes to, and supports many Open Source projects, communities, and organizations. Come hear about why Open Source matters to us, and why it should matter to you too. Registration for the event is free but registering lets us know how much pizza to order.