News by Topic: Games, Film, And Digital Media

RIT’s Creative Industry “Day” drew a wide range of talent seekers from companies such as Amazon, Forbes Media, and Microsoft last week, as the 16th annual event went virtual Feb. 22-26 this year due to the pandemic.

RIT’s Electronic Gaming Society is always reinventing itself to provide its members with the best gaming experience possible. During the COVID-19 pandemic, that has been no different. In addition to offering students access to more popular consoles and hosting game servers, the club is experimenting with virtual reality that has made their weekly game nights increasingly popular.
 

RIT and NTID have announced a partnership with Garth Fagan Dance for a “cooperative-creative-connection” to begin Aug. 1.

World Around You, a multilingual platform created by a team at NTID, was selected as the winner of the Inclusive Education award by the mEducation Alliance. The goal of World Around You, or WAY, is to increase global literacy for deaf children by providing greater access to sign languages, early-grade reading materials, vocabulary, reading instruction, and digital games.  

Computing researchers at RITare teaming up with Fortune 500 company JLL to explore augmented reality within the commercial real estate and property management space.

Shaun Foster is leveraging $160,000 from an Epic Games MegaGrant to explore and develop dynamic virtual content that is opening the eyes of RIT faculty and students—and many others—to Unreal Engine’s myriad, multi­disciplinary possibilities.

Mic mentions the School of Interactive Games and Media, highlighting the game design and development program.

WROC-TV talks to members of RIT’s MAGIC Incubator program, including Rob Mostyn, digital games hub coordinator for MAGIC Spell Studios.

Today.com features how the indie pop band MisterWives hosted a livestreamed concert at RIT's MAGIC Spell Studios.

Two Rochester independent game developers are bringing their video game ideas to life, with help from an incubator program at RIT’s MAGIC Center. As part of the program, the indie developers received funding, mentorship and publishing support to finish their game ideas and push them to market.

WXXI’s “Connections” program features Rob Mostyn, digital games hub coordinator in MAGIC, and Jenn Hinton, associate director of the MAGIC Center.

FOX Rochester mentions RIT's game design and development program.