Catch up on the latest news and events from around the DigiPen community.
Students
DigiPen students were invited to attend alt.ctrl.GDC in March to show off their unique real-world sandbox game, Sand Garden.
Student game The Blade in the Bark draws acclaim with its detailed pixel art, enmeshing story, and perfectly integrated gameplay.
Adija, a student film about a young girl’s use of graffiti art to deal with a difficult family life, is making waves on the festival circuit.
The DigiPen Jazz Ensemble performs “All Good,” an original jazz piece composed and arranged by band director and senior lecturer Bruce Stark.
Students in the DigiPen Jazz Ensemble held their first public performance this August when they opened for Kirkland Summerfest in Kirkland, WA.
Using an Xbox Kinect and over 100 pounds of Kinetic Sand, DigiPen students built a unique controller for their strategy game Sand Garden.
Israeli game design students from Tiltan School of Design and Visual Communication came to DigiPen for an intense hands-on learning experience.
DigiPen student Alex Bennett is a 2016 recipient of the McMillen Foundation art scholarship.
For the second year in a row, students from DigiPen Institute of Technology have been selected to participate in the E3 College Game Competition.
Jimi Huard and Professor Jeremy Thomas have been working together to determine if it’s possible to use atmospheric data to predict earthquakes.
DigiPen students won a total of eight awards in the 2016 GDC Student Narrative Analysis Competition, including three Platinum winners.
DigiPen students on Team Overboard are going hands-on with the HTC Vive to create a psychological thriller virtual reality game called Hereafter.
Originally hired to work on documentation for Epic Games’s acclaimed Unreal Engine, DIT student Robert Gervais ended up contributing a lot more.
Student Aviva Schecterson from team Aurora talks about the development process for the open-world game ÆON in our team spotlight video.
For incoming DigiPen freshmen, the newly implemented Peer Advising Leaders (PAL) program may be a valuable tool for success.
A group of students from DigiPen’s WaNIC Academy traveled to Louisville, KY, to take part in a SkillsUSA Championship.
Synaptic Sugar is one of the largest DigiPen game teams ever assembled, so it makes sense that their game project is a massive undertaking.
Check out our video interview with the student game team behind N.U.T.S.: Forest FriendZ, and download the full game from the DigiPen Showcase.
Kamloops School District’s Digital Technology Academy lets students in BC study computer science with ProjectFUN’s time-tested curriculum.
Check out our team spotlight video on Radio Galaxy’s pillow-fighting beat-em-up, Book of Dreams.