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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.

Beach Island Deluxe

Platformer

Travel across the mysterious world of Beach Island, a land of geometric platforms and risky obstacles. Take control of Beach Guy as you seek out and gather all 15 stars.

A short robot man looks at the landscape filled with blocks, palm trees, and floating obstacles

FPS Chess

Combat

Battle a friend in this fast paced 1v1 class-based first-person shooter. Chess takes a back-seat to FPS as you win duel after duel and capture the opponent’s pieces until you’ve beaten their king and won the game.

First-person view of a crosshair aiming at a chess piece on a chess board

Witchpunk

Combat

Play as the Mollie, the skateboarding witch, in this third-person arena-based thrash-em-up.

Skateboarding witch skates around a city plaza

Dimensional Gears

Platformer

Dimensional Gears is a 2.5D puzzle platformer that takes place in a dystopian steam-punk future where household appliances are the only sentient beings left.

A sentient microwave jumping on platforms in a factory

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

Award Winning Animation
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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

A filled DigiPen branded coffee cup sits next to an open notebook and laptop

Faculty

DigiPen Welcomes New Full-Time Faculty and Academic Affairs Staff

We’d like to recognize the latest full-time faculty and take a closer look at their diverse backgrounds in games, education, and more.

A fantasy character with spiky armor and a mohawk holds a large rifle.

Alumni

Level Artist Nathaniel Hinton Lays It All Out on Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands

The DigiPen graduate brings his compositional know-how to Gearbox’s new Borderlands spinoff.

A DigiPen student plays a PC game in a Nightingale lab testing bay.

Announcements

DigiPen Debuts New User Research Lab On Campus

Nightingale and Playfair, DigiPen’s two newest lab rooms, equip students with controlled test environments and new research tools.