The votes are in and the winners are...

Congratulations everyone! These new positions take effect immediately.

Edited April 5, 2008 at 10:02 pm, by Mitchell Bloch

Articles written regarding the 48 Hour Game Development Contest are being published on gamecareerguide.com, linked from Gamasutra Education.

The articles can be found here:
A Word from the Coordinators
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV

Edited March 22, 2008 at 6:14 pm, by Mitchell Bloch

Honoring Stephen Colbert is the theme, and the results are in. There are 14 games ready for download made by 14 teams, 41 participants. All should run in Windows if the proper redistributables have been run.

First, I want to thank the particpants. They all worked hard and most came out with great, if a bit incomplete, games. I hope that Stephen Colbert is honored by the games and the hard work that went into them. My only regret regarding the contest is that I wasn't able to make one myself. Perhaps I'll get to work on World of Colbertcraft soon ;-)

Second, I want to thank our sponsors: Activision, EA, Microsoft, THQ, and Ed Baraf, Pete Knepley, and Dave Ratti. Their donations help to make these contests possible.

Third, I want to thank our judges: Professor John Laird, Professor Brian Winn, and Professor Bruce Maxim. Some came a long way. All took a great deal of care in evaluating the games - a time consuming process.

Fourth, I want to thank my co-organizer, Paul. Our working together made the largest 48 Hour Contest yet the most manageable yet.

Last, but not least, I want to thank Stephen Colbert for being the inspiration for our theme this year.

So, get to playing the games. Have fun!

Flag Wars: Capture the Flags is the game Keenan, Wes, Jason and I worked on for our EECS 494 project. It came in 7th out of 13 entries. I hope you enjoy it. You will need to find someone else to play it with as it is a networked multiplayer game only at the moment.

Also, Supermassive Black Hole and Perilous Seas are two EECS 494 arcade games that were made this semester. Both are also worth checking out.

Edited December 15, 2007 at 2:26 am, by Mitchell Bloch

Play a great games and win door prizes!

7:30 PM until 9:00 PM this Friday, 1695 CSE, North Campus.

It has been one of my favorite events to partake in over the past few years, so I strongly recommend you come.

Edited December 12, 2007 at 3:43 am, by Mitchell Bloch

This week's dev session, we will be starting a tutorial series. It is definitely going to a tutorial on beginning game programming, so be there if that interests you. There are a few different options for what engine or library we will be teaching you, so if you want to have some input, be sure to come early. Whatever we decide on we will probably stick with for some time.

You should come listen to what he has to say.

Matt Gilgenbach, a Wolverine Soft alum and a programmer currently working at High Impact Games, is in town and interested in speaking with us. We are going to meet in the CSE lobby on North Campus at 4:45 PM. We will then head to an actual room (TBD) and post a note on our office door telling late-comers where to go. (Our office is right behind the Foo Bar.)

October 4, 2007 at 7:30 pm

Chris Friedemann, Software Engineer and Arthur Tomlin, Software Engineer

Windows Training Rooms,
3rd floor Duderstadt Center

FREE GAMES GIVEAWAY!

We will have our first dev session of the semester tonight at 6:00 pm. Be sure to come. Prior experience is not required nor expected.

Also, stop by our Festifall table. I have heard that out table is not busy enough yet.

Dev sessions will take place on Wednesdays for what remains of the summer. Please see the events pages and calendar for details.

As regards IGF, it looks as though we hope to have three good submissions come October 15. Relevant links include the IGF homepage, the Student Showcase Section of their about page, the General Submission Rules, the Student-Specific Submission Rules, and finally the Awards Information.

More information on our projects will be forthcoming at a later date.

Edited June 16, 2007 at 1:52 am, by Mitchell Bloch

President: Mitchell Bloch
Treasurer: Warren Bame
Events Coordinator: Paul Skowronek
Publicity Coordinator: Vishnu Desaraju
Secretary: Keenan Patterson
Games Master (Fungineer): Steven Jones
Director of Art: Marc Morriseau
Webmaster: Dale White

Photos from the recent 48 hour contest are now available.

48 Hour 4 Photos

As always, if you're interested in obtaining a higher resolution copy of any of these images, just let me know.