Posts Categorized: Student News

ETC Student Project Accepted in Film Festival

Posted by & filed under Student News.

ETC student project teams are showing their short “Lovers Meet” in the Fine Arts Film Festival. “Lovers Meet,” is a blended live-action/animated short film about a young man, Isaac, who finds himself inside an impressionist painting (inspired by the work of Leonid Afremov) on May 13, 2017 at the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center &… Read more »

ETC Students featured in Amazon Game Development Blog

Posted by & filed under Student News.

Last fall the Building Virtual Worlds (BVW) team 54 choose to use the Amazon Alexa as part of their world in the ‘story round’, and their work is featured in an Amazon Developer blog.  The 5-person interdisciplinary  team of programmers, sound designers, and technical artists developed this experience in 2 weeks for the BVW class…. Read more »

Creative Chaos

Posted by & filed under Student News.

In an article by Julianne Mattera, CMU News takes a look at ETC Press’s Creative Chaos, Learning Lessons on Making Inclusion & Innovation Making the Magic. “So it is no surprise that “Creative Chaos” is the title and focus of a new book from the ETC Press on best practices in teaching creative collaboration to… Read more »

BeatStep Cowboys wins at the Intel University Games Showcase

Posted by & filed under Student News.

At last week’s Intel University Games Showcase(IUGS), held in conjunction with the ​annual Game Developers Game Conference (GDC), ETC student project team and their game, Beatstep Cowboys, won first place in Best Game Play and second place in visual quality. Twelve of the world’s top university game design programs demonstrated their best student projects and competed… Read more »

ETC’s Schell Named HEVGA Fellow

Posted by & filed under Faculty News, Student News.

Press Release:  https://hevga.org/fellows/ WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 27, 2017 Today, The Higher Education Video Game Alliance (HEVGA) proudly announces their Fellows program, inducting 30 scholars into their inaugural cohort of leaders in games in higher education. Established in 2017, The Higher Education Video Game Alliance Fellows program recognizes senior scholars in the games domain who… Read more »

ETC at GDC 2017

Posted by & filed under Alumni News, Faculty News, General News, Student News.

At next week’s Game Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, the ETC will have a strong presence with alumni, faculty and over 40 students in attendance.  Here is a summary of the information gathered of the ETC participation. STUDENT PARTICIPATION Nikhil Kashyap, ETC 2017 Platinum winner for a narrative review he wrote on ‘The Walking… Read more »

ETC EXPLORES AUGMENTING REALITY

Posted by & filed under Student News, University News.

In an article by Danielle Lehman, CMU News looks at how the ETC projects from the fall semester, mixAR and Music Everywhere used Augmented Reality not just for play. “The mixAR team studied how users interact with a virtual agent — in this case a spherical robot — to examine how an interactive agent can… Read more »

ETC student Platinum Winner in Narrative Summer poster session

Posted by & filed under Student News.

Organizers of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) have announced the winners of the annual Student Narrative Analysis Competition and ETC student Nikhil Kashyap was named a Platinum winner for his narrative on The Walking Dead. Each year, leading game design programs at universities across the county integrate this competition into their academic curricula; participating students… Read more »

Alumni Updates – November 2016

Posted by & filed under Student News.

We love hearing from the going’s on of our ETC alumni and recently we heard from Ray Mazza (03), Arseniy Klishin (14) and Ira Fay (04). Ray Mazza writes “I recently launched an independent tablet & phone game – Merge Dragons – which I’ve been developing solo for nearly 3 years since I left the… Read more »

Student Game Design winners!

Posted by & filed under Student News.

Over the past few weeks our students have won design and people’s choice awards at international conferences for their work at the ETC. The ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY): The spring 2015 project team Kalpana, and their interactive experience ‘Injustice’ was awarded the People’s Choice award in the Student… Read more »

    This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

    Call

    412-268-5791

    Write

    700 Technology Dr. Pittsburgh, PA. 15219
    X

    Resources