满帆 故事
发表 2015年12月28日
Year in Review 2015: Grads on the Year’s Hottest 游戏
Our Year in Review series features the best of life at 满帆 in 2015, highlighting award-winning grads, popular student work, industry guests, 和更多的.
2015 turned out to be another fantastic year in gaming, both within the 满帆 community and beyond. From indie developers to AAA studios, 一些毕业生, 学生, faculty members made creative contributions to the gaming world this year, including offerings from several well established franchises and new to market titles. As we move into the new year, we took time to look back on some of our favorite game-related stories from the past year. Check out the highlights below.
- Earlier this year, grads 艾丽卡霍尔科姆, Cameron Bolinger, Joeseph Arcidiacono ran a successful Kickstarter to raise funds to support the development of their game, PeriAreion, which puts players in charge of a realistic Mars colony. The game was picked up by indie distribution site 蒸汽.
- In March, 满帆 was ranked one of The Princeton Review's best undergraduate and graduate schools to study video game design for 2015.
- We took a look at the history of artificial intelligence 在电子游戏中.
- Game Development grad 迈克尔·希克斯 released his game 支柱 for PS4 and XBox360.
- 罗伊Papp, a Course Director in 满帆’s 游戏设计 Master’s degree program, received a nomination for Casual Connect’s 2015 Indie Prize contest for his work on the mobile game "Divey Jones Bitey Shark." This free to play mobile game is currently available for iOS and Android.
- Three 满帆 grads launched indie development studio Dark Rift Entertainment. Nigel Nikitovich (Computer Animation), 凯文·库珀 (游戏艺术), Edo Von Muralt (游戏艺术) will launch their first PC/console game soon, recently partnered with Lenovo on a tower defense action project called 游戏tate.
- We went inside 满帆's newly opened User Experience Lab for a in-depth look at the science behind UX.
- A slew of grads worked on projects that received recognition at The Game Awards 2015. 高达 53个毕业生 were credited on 21个项目, spanning a total of 15个类别.