Our Don, Don, comes out regularly to spend some time with us. He spent yesterday here during his current lap of Earth.
Don gets a demo of Crescendo Encore's game
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Don Visits ETC-SV
Thursday, March 29th, 2012 posted by carlSpring 2012 Semester Welcome
Monday, January 23rd, 2012 posted by carlSpring 2012 brings 15 students and two alums to Silicon Valley ETC this semester – eight returning and nine new.
Spring 2012 Students
We’re working on two projects, each of which is a continuation from last semester. Our EA team, named “Megalodon,” has a record breaking 11 members on it. They are working on a project for the Office of the Chief Creative Officer (OCCO).
EA Team Megalodon
Smilegate is also sponsoring a continuation of last semester’s project, now titled “Crescendo Encore.”
Smilegate Team Crescendo Encore
Crescendo
Thursday, September 8th, 2011 posted by noah
Team Crescendo
Crescendo is a client based project working with Smilegate, a Korean game developer. Smilegate would like us to create an experience for children and families that encourages cooperation, brings people together, and gives players the feeling of playing real instruments without requiring them to have the skills of a musician.
With these ideas in mind, Crescendo will create a rhythm/music game for the PC. The game will require players to match rhythms in time with music and will reward players for playing in harmony with one another. This game will be played with custom instruments that will look like their real counterparts while greatly simplifying their use. The goal is to deliver to Smilegate a concrete, finished product and documentation of the research we’ve done explaining how we came to our design decisions.
Five Sided Square
Thursday, September 8th, 2011 posted by park.solip
Team 5SS (Five Sided Square) is an ETC Student Pitch Project for fall of 2011. Our project goal is to create a table top multi-player game by using one of the recently introduced platform, Sifteo Cubes.
As a team, we feel that our final deliverable should be one fully functional complete game on the Sifteo cubes. We will also include all documentation such as design documents, research results, and any other write ups we may create through out our production process.
The games that have been made for Sifteo Cubes are geared towards children. In creating our game we have decided to take a different approach. Our game will be more oriented towards the people who could actually afford the cubes: mature gamers. The target audience for our game will be middle-class males and females ages 18-35 who play video games and traditional games frequently. Our purpose in this is two-fold: to create interest in Sifteo Cubes within this demographic beyond their use as a child’s toy, and to target a demographic which will allow us to explore game mechanics that may not be understood by younger players.
Ethereal
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 posted by mpiszczo
Ethereal is a student-pitched project that focuses on delivering an online multiplayer medieval combat game, founded in medieval fighting & formation techniques.
In our second semester the project is housed at the IGN.com headquarters in San Francisco as a winner of the Indie Open House competition. The Indie Open House Program hosts 5 independent game projects and provides each team with a support system allowing each of the 5 teams to focus on their core competency – making a great game.
The Ethereal medieval fighting experience will evolve with new features including the integration of IGN’s GameSpy technology. Players will experience gritty combat as well as understand that working together means survival on the battlefield.
