Posts Categorized: Student News

Emotionshop post featured in Gamasutra

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ETC student pitch project Emotionshop has one of their blogs featured in Gamasutra.  Below is an email from one of the team members: ‘Emotionshop is doing a blogpost series on Gamasutra about the lessons we learned designing games for seven different emotions. This is in line with our goal of providing game designers with additional… Read more »

Half presentations

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Last week ETC students formally presented to ETC faculty, students, and guests the status of their projects at the mid-point of the semester. In 15 minute presentations, the project teams gave updates on what they are making for their clients and what they have accomplished so far.   The teams also included information on their target… Read more »

Drew Davidson on WGBH Innovation Hub

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Kara Miller interviews ETC Director, Drew Davidson, on storytelling and videogames for the Innovation Hub broadcast at WGBH. You can listen to the interview on Innovation Hub’s Sound Cloud.

Life drawing workshops

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Many workshops are offered during the semester to enhance student’s learning and skills while at the ETC. A few semesters ago ETC faculty member Shirley Yee started offering a Life drawing workshop to students interested in learning more about Concept Art, 2D Art, Technical Art, UX design, or just like to draw. A live model… Read more »

Schell Games Shines in VR Competition

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Earlier this week, Schell Games won in three categories at this year’s Proto Awards, sponsored by AMD.  They took first place for Best Overall, Best Gameplay, and Best Interaction Desgin for their virtual reality game I EXPECT YOU TO DIE. I.E.Y.T.D. is available as a free download on Oculus Share. Congratulations to ETC faculty member… Read more »

ETC Participates in Virtual Hackathon

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Thanks to ETC alumnus Nate Levin, we are proud to participate in “Hack with Me“, a virtual hackathon, sponsored by Unity and IMVU that will take place between September 23 and October 16.  Participants will create avatar-based experiences, with the opportunity to win big prizes.  Today, we were fortunate to have Nate visit the ETC… Read more »

ETC at SIGGRAPH2015

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You may see a few familiar faces from the ETC this year at SIGGRAPH2015 in Los Angeles next week. Matt Costa (’12) is serving as Committee Member for the Computer Animation Festival.  Matt is currently an Associate Video Editor at Riot Games. WEVR will be in the VR Village Sunday – Tuesday.  This is a startup… Read more »

The ETC celebrates the class of 2015

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With the highest class number to date, the ETC welcomed 94 new alumni at the Diploma Ceremony on Sunday May 17, 2015. Following a dinner with the graduates, faculty, the graduate’s guests and staff, each graduate received their diploma in recognition of the completion of the course of study for a Master of Entertainment Technology… Read more »

Patronus in the news.

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The ETC project Patronus has been receiving national recognition for “Decisions that Matter – an Interactive Experience” as a way to change the way people react when they witness sexual harassment and violence.  Created in the style of a graphic novel, the tool is a game with five characters plus the game player. In roughly… Read more »

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