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Want to know what DigiPen students are capable of creating? Check out some of these outstanding student projects in games, art, animation, and engineering.

Student Games

DigiPen students apply their knowledge each year to a series of increasingly complex, multidisciplinary game projects. These projects challenge students to build their own tools and technology from the ground up as they collaborate with their peers on a large, shared codebase. By leveraging the power of solid teamwork, careful planning, and communication, they learn firsthand how to create compelling interactive experiences that strive for amazing art direction, sophisticated design, and technical excellence.

EFO: Escape from Outerworld

Platformer

You’ve crashed on an alien planet! In this side-scroller, reach the top of the mountain and call for rescue before your distress beacon battery dies.

Pilot character surrounded by trees, rocks, and alien ruins

Ransack Raccoon

Stealth

A thieving raccoon named Bop traverses a maximum security shopping mall, avoiding security while stealing everything in sight.

Raccoon inside a mall computer store

D-BUG

Multiplayer

In this two-player shooter, a pilot and engineer must collaborate to keep their mech up and running in the fight against an alien bug infestation.

Inside view of mech suit piloting cockpit

Faded Path

Adventure

Control an orb warrior exploring an evil-infested dungeon. Can you dash and attack your way through danger and banish the evil presence?

A white orb character surrounded by approaching enemies

Student Animations

Applying all of the skills and techniques they have learned in the classroom, students in the BFA in Digital Art and Animation program tackle a series of short film projects as a part of their program coursework. In addition to showcasing their technical mastery of digital tools and artistic fundamentals, these films give students the chance to discover what it means to evoke emotion through visual storytelling and bring characters to life.

A girl facing a brick wall spray-painted with two figures, one pink, one green, holding hands around a bright sun

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Award Winning

A dog pushes another away while setting a snare trap.

PrePAWsterous

A girl flaps her hands in the back seat of a car.

Flap

A young woman in glasses stands in the rain in front of a white brick wall with ivy growing on it.

Etude

Student Art

To excel in the digital arts requires more than innate talent. It takes years of discipline, study, and a keen understanding of the visual language found within nature, architecture, and the world around us. With time and dedication, students in the BFA in Digital Art and Animation program gain not only the ability to imagine new worlds altogether, but also the skills and insights to bring those ideas to life through captivating imagery. These are just a few fine examples of what our students have created at DigiPen.

3D Modeling

Close up of a man’s back

Digital Painting

digital painting of a happy purple alligator hiding playfully under a large leaf while a bird flies overhead

Drawing

A detailed drawing of a tree branch

Fabrication

A colorful, terrace-roofed tower

Painting

still-life traditional painting of a tea cup, a lemon, scissors, and a roll of blue painter's tape on a white draped sheet

Inspiring Stories

Four armed survivors approach an exit door.

Alumni

Two DigiPen Graduates Build the Tools to Help Craft Zombie Mayhem in Back 4 Blood

Back 4 Blood marks the return of co-op zombie shooting chaos, and it was created with the help of alumni Lucy Ainsworth and Jonathan Hurtado.

A geometric, pixel art screenshot from DigiPen student game Netgunner.

Students

DigiPen Game Design Disciplines, Explained: Technical Design

The BA in Game Design program features six design concentrations. In this article, we explore the ins and outs of technical design.

A screenshot from DigiPen student game The Blade in the Bark showing a girl on a wolf’s back in the woods.

Students

DigiPen Game Design Disciplines, Explained: Narrative Design

The BA in Game Design program features six design concentrations. In this article, we explore the ins and outs of user narrative design.