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Game Design and Development BS
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May 3, 2019
RIT Dota 2 team wins Grand Championship for second year in a row
RIT is silencing the doubters, winning its second Collegiate Starleague Dota 2 Grand Finals Championship April 28. The student team bested a bracket of North America’s 32 top universities to take home the $10,000 grand prize.
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April 25, 2019
Animation Career Review names RIT among nation’s best colleges to study video game design
Animation Career Review has again named RIT one of the top game design schools in the country. RIT ranked fifth on the list of Top 50 Game Design Schools in the U.S. and second in New York state.
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April 15, 2019
RIT Digital Games Hub seeks to make Rochester a video-game haven
Rochester Business Journal features the RIT Digital Games Hub.
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March 19, 2019
RIT student’s experimental game highlighted at 2019 Game Developers Conference
RIT student Shawn Liu is being recognized at the 2019 Game Developers Conference for creating an extraordinary video game that challenges players to finish a maze using Windows keyboard shortcuts.
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March 18, 2019
RIT heads to Game Developers Conference 2019
More than 100 RIT students, faculty, alumni and staff are visiting San Francisco this week to attend Game Developers Conference 2019, the world’s largest professional gaming industry event of the year. The RIT MAGIC Spell Studios booth is displaying four games created at RIT.
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March 12, 2019
RIT video game design programs again ranked among the best
RIT again boasts some of the top programs in the world to study game design, according to the latest international rankings from The Princeton Review. RIT’s game design and development program was ranked eighth at the undergraduate level and seventh at the graduate level on the 2019 list.
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January 12, 2019
Game Development's Next Hub: Rochester, NY?
GameDaily.biz features RIT, including the MAGIC Center and Rob Mostyn, Digital Games Hub Coordinator.
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December 6, 2018
Student Spotlight: Game design student working on sensor technologies
Meet Austin Ford, a fourth-year game design and development student who is working as an FPI software engineer at RIT’s Center for Detectors. -
December 4, 2018
Students’ video game launches on multiple platforms
Crazy Platez, a high-octane, Rochester-themed game, is now available on the Google Play Store for Android and the App Store for iOS. -
November 20, 2018
MAGIC spells opportunity with new learning laboratory
RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studios opened the doors to its new home this fall, inviting students, faculty and industry professionals to experience a digital media development and publishing learning laboratory never before seen in the Northeast. -
November 20, 2018
MAGIC Spell Studios: Gaining exposure
Barrington Campbell loved playing video games as a child, but he didn’t think there would be a future as a professional in the game design industry. “I was wrong,” he said. -
October 30, 2018
Creators of ‘Lost & Found’ game honored for work
The interdisciplinary team of RIT faculty and student researchers, designers and developers that created the Lost & Found tabletop game is getting recognition for its design. Throughout the year, the game has been featured at several showcases for independent and serious games.