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Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks: Or Why the Future Might Curse Us Deb Nicholson Community Outreach Director for the Open Invention Network O’Reilly Open Source Award Winner Founding organizer of the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference Software Freedom Conservancy’s Evaluation Committee Patents, copyrights and trademarks form a trio of legal tools often referred to as “intellectual property” law. […]
SCHEDULE // 7-7:15: Arrivals 7:15-7:30: Introductions + quick announcements (open to anyone) 7:30-8: Project Sharing 8-8:30/9: Finish It! (Finishing your game workshop) 9-10: ROC Mini-Game Suite discussion // WORKSHOP // Finish your game! Some advice on crossing your finish line, whether it’s managing scope creep or doing 11th hour feature triage. You can do it! […]
EAT. SLEEP. BREATHE. MAKE. SUMMER 2017 5 teams | $10,000 PER TEAM | $50,000 TOTAL The key differentiator for a place like RIT is a focus on student innovation: students today need to be prepared for multiple careers, start-ups, failures, and experiences. They are likely to face technology disruption in their own careers, and […]
NYS Game Challenge The video game industry is hoping to get a production tax credit into this year’s final budget after the governor vetoed a similar measure last year because it wasn’t part of the budget. Both the Senate and Assembly included the credit in their one-house resolutions. And several colleges have joined in the […]
Video Game Developers: New York Must Nurture Industry Growth ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Upstate New York is home to one of the country’s top training centers for video game design, but developers say New York will miss out on its chunk of a nearly $100 billion video game industry if it doesn’t encourage companies to […]
by Scott Bureau Rochester Institute of Technology is one of the top schools in the world to study game design and launch games for 2017, according to new international rankings from The Princeton Review. RIT’s game design and development program was ranked second at the undergraduate level and fourth at the graduate level. In 2016, […]
March 3, 2017by Vienna McGrain Note: Video available for this storyRochester Institute of Technology made a strong showing at the 2017 Intel University Games Showcase on March 2 where student John Miller presented his video game, Gibraltar, in front of students and faculty from the top game developer academic programs in the United States. Although […]
by Vienna McGrain Note: Video available for this story From the age of 12, John Miller knew that he wanted to design video games. In fact, he set a goal for himself to become a professional game developer by the time he turned 13. Although he missed that self-imposed deadline, Miller, a third-year game design […]
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 […]
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 […]
by Vienna McGrain As a doctoral candidate, Owen Gottlieb received advice from a consortium that eventually led him to a successful teaching and research career. Years later, Gottlieb, an expert in games and learning at Rochester Institute of Technology, is “paying it forward,” using a National Science Foundation grant that will enable the next generation […]
Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology and Bradley University are finding the best ways to get diverse pre-college students interested in computing as a career. Adrienne Decker, an assistant professor of interactive games and media at RIT, and Monica McGill, an associate professor of game design at Bradley University, have received a $1.19 million grant […]