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Annual Building Virtual Worlds Festival

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Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) was proud to host it’s 15 annual Building Virtual Worlds Festival on Wednesday December 3. Approximately 400 guest, including industry representatives,  prospective students, family and friends joined in for the festivities.  This year, we were especially honored to welcome CMU president Subra Suresh and his wife Mary as… Read more »

Not Everything is Flammable is Released!

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ETC student pitch project team DAM released their 2d platform game Not Everything is Flammable (NEIF) earlier this week through Gamejolt. NEIF initially began as a Global Game Jam prototype created by the DAM team:  David Shiyang Liu, Alex Hu and Mac Lotze.  After the Game Jam, the students pitched the project to the ETC… Read more »

ETC student project Palimpsest in the news

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ETC student project team Palimpsest has made an application with the Epson Moverio BT-200 augmented reality glasses that provides a glimpse of the future showcasing augmented reality’s role in our lives.  In particular, the team made a navigation companion that not only leads the user from point A to point B, but also has some… Read more »

Michael Keaton named ETC Visiting Scholar

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The ETC is proud to announce that Michael Keaton, actor, comedian, producer, and director, has agreed to become a Visiting Scholar for the Entertainment Technology Center. Michael became popular for his early comedic film roles, notably for his performance as the title character of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice (1988), and later gained international fame for his… Read more »

Burghatory a finalist in the Yosemite Interntational Film Festival

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Burghatory, a television pilot produced by Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) alumni Paul Navarro (MET’14) and current student Christina Tarn during the spring 2014 semester, has been honored as a finalist in the Yosemite International Film Festival. The pilot was produced in conjunction with Heinz College Entertainment Industry Management students Matt Angelo and… Read more »

Pillow Castle on CMU’s home page

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Carnegie Mellon University’s home page features a story about ETC project team Pillow Castle. For a look at the team’s project this semester, visit the team’s website. Congratulations to the project team: Albert Shih, Xiao Li, Allen Tingley, Zhengyo Wang, and Yuxi Zhang

The ETC at CHI PLAY

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This weekend’s ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY) conference in Toronto will feature both student project work and faculty research. The spring 2014 project team, Transcendence, with team members Etaba Assigana (15), Eric Chang (14), Seungsuk Cho (15), Vivek Kotecha (15), Bing Liu (15), Hannah Turner (15), and Yan Zhang… Read more »

ETC at IndieCade

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At this year’s IndieCade, International Festival of Independent Games, the ETC will be represented by student games, faculty and alum.  ETC Director Drew Davidson is a Well-Played Curator for the games being played at this year’s festival and ETC alum Jeremy Gibson (07) is a Co-Chair of IndieXchange.  Jeremy will be giving a talk on… Read more »

Pittsburgh, Women, Games and Creative Community

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With the recent disheartening online discourse around women in games, which only underscores the historical issue this has been for the game industry as well as creative industries in general, Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center continues our strong commitment to environments where everyone who makes, enjoys and critiques games, and other creative media, deserves an… Read more »

Drew Davidson at Purdue University

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ETC Director Drew Davidson was invited to Purdue University by their Graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition to give a talk as part of their bi-annual David Hutton Interdisciplinary Lecture Series.  Drew was invited  to honor the work he has done to advance the field of game studies through ETC Press and Well Played. His… Read more »

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