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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 »

Vote for the ETC at CREATE 2015

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In the 2015 CREATEFest awards, Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) has student, faculty, spin-offs and alumni projects  in the Entertainment, Film & Digital Media category.  You have a chance to vote for your favorite project in this year’s Entertainment, Film & Digital Media category, by hitting the like button on the Facebook page… Read more »

The Beat, the Step, and the Cowboy

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ETC students JD Minwong Ji, Zhetao Wang and Vivek Vidyasagaran created a game during the Global Game Jam last January called The Beat, the Step, and the Cowboy.  This rhythm-based two player game was recently featured in Rock, Paper, Shotgun. The game is available to download now on GameJolt. Nice work JD, Tao and Viviek… Read more »

The ETC at GDC

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Many of the Entertainment Technology Center alumni, faculty, students, and staff will be attending the Game Developers’ Conference again this year. The ETC will have a big presence games, sessions, round tables, and workshops. Below is a list of some of the participation of ETC folks during the Conference and Expo March 2-6 at the… Read more »

ETC student team wins 2015 Blueprint Challenge: Games

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Four ETC students entered their 2D puzzler platformer game, Scrolling, in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup as part of the 2015 Blueprint Challenge: Games.  Xunchi Sun, Feiran Wang, Mei Xue and Junwen Chen submitted a document outlining their idea and were recently announced as the Winners in the Game Category. Scrolling uses  a scroll-to-scale mechanism where players… Read more »

Shipbreakers to be shown on WQED

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WQED (ch 13) will be airing the documentary, Shipbreakers, this Saturday, Jan 10 at 10:00pm during Filmmaker’s Corner. Shipbreakers was a co-production between the late Carnegie Mellon University Professor Paul Goodman, Tom Clancy and ETC assistant teaching Professor Ralph Vituccio. The documentary has screened in several film festivals both in the states and abroad and… Read more »

ETC project game received an honorable mention PEACEapp competition

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ETC project from the spring 2014 semester, Team Transcendence‘s game TF-CBT: Triangle of Life, received and honorable mention in the United Nations Appliance of Civilizations PEACEapp competition. The Transcendence team members of Etaba Assigana, Eric Chang, Seungsuk, Cho, Vivek Kotecha, Bing Liu, Hanna Turner and Yan (Rock) Zhang, augmented the Trauma-Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy process by… Read more »

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 »

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