Developed for the HTC Vive, Perspectives allows players to experience a story from three different points of view. Inspired by the short story, Sredni Vashtar, by H.H. Munro, Perspectives explores the impact of behavior and societal pressure on the evolution of identity. Featuring abstract, immersive environments, and an evocative sound track, Perspectives creates a world that […]
Gibraltar—a fast-paced, territory-focused, turn-based tactics game—was inspired by Advance Wars and Hearthstone, and Go, a Japanese board game, and was created as “simple entertainment that creates a cool, intellectual experience for the user.” Gibraltar was also a national finalist for Microsoft’s annual Imagine Cup student competition in 2016. Fr more about the game, go to
is a web application for teaching college level statistics through ASL videos and web games. The main target of this web application are Deaf and Hard of Hearing students. We’ve been making our first game called Mars University – a game based on population and statistics.
Student team: Abdulaziz Almerdasi (software engineering, Kuwait City, Kuwait) and Alex Christodoulou (software engineering, North Bergen, N.J.)
Student team: Jonathan Palmer (game design and development, Bolton, Mass.), Dillon Guscott (game design and development, Baldwin, N.Y.) and Kushagra Gupta (game design and development, Mumbai, India)
Student team: Sarah Bishop (game design and development, Annapolis, Md.), Becca Turgeon (game design and development, Temple, Texas), Diana Kim (illustration, Glenview, Ill.) and Lefan Shi (illustration, China)
Alec Satterly, a fourth-year management information systems major from Oreland, Pa., didn’t want to have to get up to close his blinds and turn off the lights. So with a team of six, he created Cenify, a company to help other companies make their products “smart.” By working with LED lighting company CleanLife, Cenify plans […]
Remy and the Book of Rhymes Last spring, a class began working to reduce global poverty by tackling illiteracy with a video game that helps children learn to read.
Student team: Kaelyn Wendling (game design and development, Bath, Mich.), Lauren-Alexandra Stapleford (game design and development, Meridian, Miss.), Ben Connick (game design and development, Broomall, Pa.), Dominic Rigney (accounting, Syracuse, N.Y.), Courtney Desimone (illustration, Clay, N.Y.), Nicholas Tancredi (game design and development, Pittsburgh), Matthew Fasman (game design and development, Larchmont, N.Y.)
Originally created as a capstone project by Sam Trapp of Honeoye Falls, N.Y., Ben Snyder of Memphis, N.Y., and Arun Abraham of India, the game Amirelia is now on its way to being submitted to the Independent Game Festival Student Showcase. The recently graduated master’s students from game design and development spent the summer […]
Just Press Play is an achievement system developed in RIT’s School of Interactive Games & Media, which adds a game layer to our undergraduates’ daily life. It is intended to encourage students to engage in a playful way with their educational environments and experiences, to reflect on their accomplishments, and to strengthen their sense of competence […]
Blocky Talky is a platform that re-envisions Lego robotics and tile-based coding using open hardware and frameworks for the purpose of exposing young learners to computing in terms of complexity and networks. We’re working with Dr. Benjamin Shapiro at the Tufts University Center for Engineering Education & Outreach (CEEO) to further develop the prototypes for […]