Game Design, Development, and Arts News

According to new international rankings from The Princeton Review, RIT is one of the top five game design universities in the world.

During their third year at RIT, the pair unexpectedly enrolled in the same partner-based sound recording classand worked together on a quarter-long project. The assignment provided a golden opportunity to learn more about each other while exploring the Rochester region.

At the GDC (Game Developers Conference) Festival of Gaming in San Franciso, PC Gamer interviewed RIT students who created the alternative controller interactive experience Don’t Run With Scissors.

At the GDC (Game Developers Conference) Festival of Gaming in San Franciso, PC Gamer interviewed RIT students who created a giant toothbrushing interactive experience called Floss Boss.

George Dubinsky and David Short discovered a shared vision while at RIT, using it to guide them in developing their Philadelphia-based company into one that works with the world's top architects and interior designers.

Independent game developer Rami Ismail hired former Gap Year fellow Sam Magnolia and their cofounders at Aesthetician Labs — Noah Magnolia and Aidan Markham — to lead the development and production team for Australia Did It.

Six students from RIT's graphic design and new media design programs were recognized at the local American Advertising Awards, an event that recognizes excellence in advertising campaigns and the highest creative standards in the industry.

Computer science major Emma Schmitt took a required co-op seminar class to help prepare for the internship search and what do to on the job, helping her land co-ops at Honeywell/LenelS2 and Microsoft.

Amelia Hunkele, now in her second year as a new media design major, is this year’s winning artist for the Imagine RIT poster, which depicts a Rube Goldberg machine.

As part of a collaborative capstone project, students from new media design and new media interactive development are creating interactive experiences with alternative controllers. Three of the projects will be exhibited at the Game Developers Conference Festival of Gaming next week.

Jeff Chen’s analysis of the game In Stars and Time has earned him the Game Developers Conference Game Narrative Review program’s prestigious Gold Prize, which enables him to give a talk and present a poster at the annual event in March.

Cartoon Brew interviews Christine A. Banna, assistant professor in the School of Film and Animation, about her creative process for animating Moira Smiley's "Haiku" music video.