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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.

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

ShadowBringer

Stealth

Escape from an underground research facility in this 3D stealth game where you play as the monster.

Clawed creature approaches an operating table in a lab

Ceramic Soul

Puzzle

Play as a ceramic doll brought to life in this horror-tinged puzzle adventure.

Porcelain doll in a room with floating toy blocks

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

Mega Man 11 screenshot: Blue robot slides across a stone platform

Alumni

Meet the “MegaMaster” Mandi Paugh, Creator of the Internet’s Preeminent Mega Man Fan Site

Mandi Paugh was a student at DigiPen when she inadvertently created what would go on to be the longest-running fan site devoted to Capcom’s “Blue Bomber.”

A rook looks at a king down the barrel of its sniper rifle in FPS Chess.

Alumni

Wreckmate! Student Game FPS Chess Finds Wild Success Adding Combat to a Classic

The three-student DigiPen game team breaks down their viral hit fusing chess matches with deathmatches.

Four Saints Row IV characters pose against a brick wall with graffiti on it

Alumni

The Saints Row Series Returns with the Help of Two DigiPen Grads

We caught up with graduates Ryan Spencer and Jeff Keely, two veteran programmers at Deep Silver Volition who helped ship the new Saints Row reboot.