WASHINGTON, DC – November 17, 2017 – The Higher Education Video Game Alliance (HEVGA), a professional association of video game scholars and programs at universities, announced today Andy Phelps as President. Phelps is the founder and Director of the RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity (MAGIC), founder and former Director of the […]
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 […]
Our friends at Dan & Gary Games shared some exciting news this morning regarding Super Daryl Deluxe! Check out the official PS4 announcement trailer! We can’t wait to get our hands on the finished game this spring! Congratulations! Proud to have been a part of your journey! Also here’s the best PlayStation blog post you’ll […]
Big news! Our “Coming Soon” Steam page is live! Go add the game to your wishlist, join the community, and SHARE WITH EVERYONE! Super Daryl Deluxe on Steam 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 […]
RIT’s MAGIC Center held their first annual “ArTech Cre8-a-th0n” Sept. 16 and 17, putting the collaborative might of artists, programmers, engineers and makers of all kinds of on display. This hackathon brought students from all the aforementioned backgrounds together. The groups they formed imagined and created an extensive variety of projects. Held in the Student Innovation Hall of the Center for […]
Locally made video games available to public this weekend Henrietta, N.Y. — RIT is working to turn the Rochester area into a hub for video game design and development. More than two-dozen video games designed by local gamers will be available for the public to play this weekend.
As the 2017-2018 NFL season kicks off, fans of the Buffalo Bills will be treated to a new virtual-reality experience at New Era Field, designed by RIT alumni, to help fans “see” the stadium from a unique perspective. Rochester Institute of Technology’s MAGIC Spell Studios has, at the request of the Buffalo Bills, created an […]
Adrienne Decker, associate professor, School of Interactive Games and Media and MAGIC affiliate has recently been awarded an NSF IUSE grant collaboratively with Briana Morrison, assistant professor, Computer Science, University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) and Lauren Margulieux, assistant professor, College of Education & Human Development’s Learning Technologies Division, Georgia State University (GSU). Also participating as […]
Dr. Jennifer Schneider, Eugene H. Fram Chair of Applied Critical Thinking is pleased to announce that Dr. Adrienne Decker, Associate Professor, will become the Fram Faculty Fellow, beginning with the next academic year. Dr. Decker will lead the identification and sharing of best critical thinking pedagogical practices, and facilitate scholarship that informs instruction and student […]
We were delighted to meet Riley and his family today, and to work with a team of friends to help make his wish come true! Make-A-Wish®, RIT to grant teen’s wish Saturday Who: Wish Kid Riley, Make-A-Wish, and Rochester Institute of Technology Riley has a brain tumor and was given the opportunity for a wish […]
Robert Mostyn thinks of himself as a conduit, connecting game developers, programmers, designers, artists and musicians to others within the community. Through his work as the Digital Games Hub Coordinator at RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studios, he’s helping to keep talented professionals in the area and grow New York state into a focal point for game […]
Kingdom of The Tao is the first and only Traditional Eastern Arts Educational game in Virtual Reality. Set in an ancient Taoist temple, players not only learn effective martial arts movements, but also traditional healing practices such as Qi Gong, Tai Chi, and the Elemental Theory of Chinese Medicine.