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One mom walked down the hall in the college of engineering shaking her head, stating “I can’t believe they had all of this here. I didn’t expect this much to be going on…” But a lot was going on, in just about every hallway in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, and this mom was more »

RIT held its 2016 Expressions of King’s Legacy celebration on Jan. 28 and welcomed Civil Rights activist and former U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young as keynote speaker. He spent the morning before the event with undergraduates in the history class, The Sin of Racism. The course, co-taught by Kevin McDonald, vice president and associate provost for more »

Game Developers Conference 2015 officially wrapped up last Friday in San Francisco. Here are some photos from the busiest week in the gaming industry:      

Fourth-year RIT students Dan Plate and Gary Porter won first place in the Visual Quality category of the 2015 Intel University Games Showcase last night for their forthcoming video game, Super Daryl Deluxe. Plate, an illustration major, created the game’s visual elements while Porter, a game design and development major, wrote the code. Both students more »

RIT’s Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity Center inaugural Game Developers Conference booth features three student-developed games and one game developed by a local Rochester gaming company. The booth opened on Wednesday and has seen strong interest from GDC attendees. Splattershmup was developed by class of 15 RIT students and blends the classic shoot-em-up arcade more »

RIT’s Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity Center opened its Game Developers Conference 2015 booth today on the expo floor. The booth features four games created by RIT students and alumni: Splattershmup, A.V., Super Daryl Deluxe and Wulverblade. This is the first year that MAGIC has hosted a booth at GDC. Check back tomorrow for more »