May 12, 2020
Students’ game wins top prize
D.I.V.E., a PC game created by game design and development master’s students Haoyu Guo, Zheyu Zhang, Yiyan Wang, and Jiayi Jiang, took the Grand Prize at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) GameFest 2020, winning $1,000 and hardware courtesy of PubG. D.I.V.E. was also a finalist for the Artistic Excellence award and can be played at https://gmyth.itch.io/dive. Warping Game, a puzzle game created by Christian Eliopoulos, second-year game design and development student, and Ethan Lane, from Rider University, was a finalist for the Technical Excellence award. It can be played at https://blazerboy.itch.io/warping-game.