We are pleased to announce that student game CtrlShift was named “sleeper hit” of last week’s E3 conference by the editors of Ars Technica. You can watch the announcement on Ars Technica’s website. CtrlShift, as well as undergraduate game Phantom Jump, were also featured in an Ars Technica article highlighting indie games at E3. A local […]
Trainwreck Games, consisting of grad students Pedro Cori, Alexander Formoso, and Cong Liu, recently won $10,000 as the winner of the Social Connection GameJam, a game design competition sponsored by the AARP and the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). The competition, held in conjunction with the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3), the world’s largest computer and video game event, challenged […]
Student game AURA, a musical shooter made by GPM alumni Patrick Trinh and Lun Cao, was featured as part of the Intel University Games Showcase during the 2016 Game Developers Conference. The event celebrated the innovation and achievements of games developed by college students and teams, with awards given to the games who excelled in both […]
Recent GPM graduate Akira Thompson is an award finalist at this year’s Indiecade Festival for his game &maybethewontkillyou. The annual event showcases and recognizes independent developers for their innovations in interactive artistry. Akira’s game, which was also featured at IndieCade’s Showcase @E3 2015, is a live-action experience that examines the nature of police violence and what it […]
Brenda Romero, UCSC’s Game Designer in Residence, has been named on of the top 10 game designers this year by Gamasutra! There are a few high-profile individuals in game development we may point to as public speakers and advocates for the medium. Of those,Wizardry and Train developer Brenda Romero is almost certainly the most eloquent, and undeniably the […]
PreConception (pregame notgame) is a game without rules. It represents the neutral state game designer’s mind as he or she considers the possibility space of a new game. It makes visible the radically shifting possibility space within the context of all possible permutations of play. Infinite at first, each selection changes the opportunities and play afforded […]