| Date |
Event |
| 2007-07-01 |
Chuck Rich joins the IMGD
technical faculty.
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| 2007-08-21 |
WPI GDC hosts NSO Game Night.
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| 2007-08-23 |
IMGD welcomes the class of
2011!
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| 2007-A-Term |
Kent Quirk of LindenLab
co-teaches IMGD-1001: The Game Development Process with Rob Lindeman,
initiating an academia/industry fusion approach to IMGD course delivery.
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| 2007-08-25 |
WPI GDC hosts New Developer Game Jam.
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| 2007-09-07 |
WPI GDC hosts Halo LAN and Tournament.
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| 2007-09-28 |
WPI GDC hosts Super Smash Bros. tournament.
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| 2007-10-30 |
WPI GDC hosts the 2nd annual Costume!Dance!Party! Halloween event.
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| 2007-10-31 |
After two experimental offerings,
Joe Farbrook requests and receives approval from the full
WPI faculty to begin offering the first-in-the-nation undergraduate course in
Machinima as an IMGD elective.
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| 2007-11-29 |
Webcasting of the weekly
IMGD Speaker Series begins.
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| 2007-12-05 |
WPI GDC hosts Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s event.
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| 2008-01-18 |
Dean O'Donnell organizes a
screenig on Playing Columbine: A true story of video game controversy, with a special Q&A session
with the film's creator Danny Ledonne. A video of the session can be found
here (1.9GB).
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| 2008-C-Term |
Dean O'Donnell initiates
the first "Master Class" in IMGD:
Kevin Dill of Rockstar New England
(formerly Mad Doc Software) delivers "Enemy AI in First Person Shooters."
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| 2008-D-Term |
Second Master Class on "Practical Game Design:
Balance in RTS's" delivered by Brian Sullivan of
Iron Lore.
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| 2008-01-25 |
WPI GDC hosts a 38-hour GameJam,
attracting students from several area colleges, in support of the Massachusetts
Game Challenge run by 38 Studios. Sponsors include AMD, WorldWinner, and Dejobaan
Games. Artists from WorldWinner and 38 Studios come meet the students.
Red Sox Ace
Curt Schilling and son make an appearance to see how things are going 23 hours after
the start.
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| 2008-02-07 |
Rob Kay (lead designer) and
Ike Adams (gameplay and interface engineer) of Rock Band from
Harmonix Music give a talk on the making of music games as part of the weekly
IMGD Speaker Series.
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| 2008-03-01 |
WPI GDC successfully lobbies
Nintendo to select WPI as one of only four sites in the US for the launch of
Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii.
Over 500 visitors converge on WPI to take part.
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|
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| 2008-03-11 |
Joe Farbrook advises an IQP
consisting of two IMGD art students, Beth Beinke and Alex Schwartz, that produces
a virtual replica of the WPI campus, and a physical, arcade-style kiosk that is placed
in the Bartlett Center. Visitors can explore the WPI campus using a virtual Segway.
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| 2008-03-29 |
WPI GDC hosts Saturday Night Gaming Extreme.
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| 2008-03-29 |
WPI GDC hosts Stupid Wiimote Tricks workshop, led by GDC
ex-Vice President Neal Orman, where interested WPI students learn about the
various non-Wii uses of the Wiimote controller such as Head tracking, digital whiteboard, etc.
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| 2008-04-05 |
WPI GDC hosts Mini-GameJam, a 12-hour event where WPI students who are interested
in game development come together and form teams to create small games.
|
|
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| 2008-04-15 |
WPI Project Presentation Day
features the five IMGD MQPs and five IMGD-themed IQPs completed this year.
|
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| 2008-04-17 |
The two-hour ShowFest 2008
showcases the work of IMGD and GDC faculty and students over the past year.
|
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| 2008-04-19 |
WPI GDC hosts the Portal Level Design Workshop,
led by GDC Vice President Alex Schwartz, where interested WPI students
learn the basics of making a playable level for Valve's award-winning title Portal.
|
|
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| 2008-04-20 |
WPI GDC hosts Rock Band tournament (based on stage performance and costumes, not on song score.)
|
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| 2008-04-22 |
IMGD faculty members Rob
Lindeman (tech) and Josh Rosenstock (art) are jointly awarded the 2008 Romeo
L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education for
their efforts in synchronizing the IMGD-3000: Technical Game Development I and
IMGD-3500: Artistic Game Development I courses. Tech and Art students form joint
teams that span the courses to complete course projects.
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| 2008-04-24 |
IMGD Speaker Series completes
another successful year.
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| 2008-04-29 |
IMGD Freshmen Adrian Mejia,
Morgan Quirk, and Andrew Tremblay take third place ($1,000 cash award) in the
Massachusetts Game Challenge sponsored by 38 Studios.
|
WPI GDC hosts Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s event.
WPI GDC hosts a 38-hour GameJam,
attracting students from several area colleges, in support of the Massachusetts
Game Challenge run by 38 Studios. Sponsors include AMD, WorldWinner, and Dejobaan
Games. Artists from WorldWinner and 38 Studios come meet the students.
Red Sox Ace
Curt Schilling and son make an appearance to see how things are going 23 hours after
the start.
WPI GDC successfully lobbies
Nintendo to select WPI as one of only four sites in the US for the launch of
Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii.
Over 500 visitors converge on WPI to take part.
WPI GDC hosts Stupid Wiimote Tricks workshop, led by GDC
ex-Vice President Neal Orman, where interested WPI students learn about the
various non-Wii uses of the Wiimote controller such as Head tracking, digital whiteboard, etc.
WPI GDC hosts Mini-GameJam, a 12-hour event where WPI students who are interested
in game development come together and form teams to create small games.
WPI GDC hosts the Portal Level Design Workshop,
led by GDC Vice President Alex Schwartz, where interested WPI students
learn the basics of making a playable level for Valve's award-winning title Portal.