Catch up on the latest news and events from around the DigiPen community.
Students
A countdown of the 20 DigiPen student games with the highest number of downloads, featuring numbers 10 through 1.
A countdown of the 20 DigiPen student games with the highest number of downloads, featuring numbers 20 through 11.
Alumni
In honor of DigiPen’s 30th anniversary, we’re revisiting a classic student game that went viral before it even released.
A BFA graduate discusses his journey from DigiPen to working on the virtual reality adaptation of Pixar’s award-winning film Coco.
Student games from DigiPen’s inaugural BS in Real-Time Interactive Simulation cohort are collected, featuring animated GIFs captured in-game.
Allen Deutsch hopes to introduce a new type of data structure to the C++ Standard Library, one that could be of particular benefit to game developers.
Industry
The author of The Gamer’s Brain: How Neuroscience and UX can Impact Video Game Design, discusses her work on Fortnite during a campus visit.
A DigiPen grad discusses his work on wearable augmented reality being used in the manufacturing, aerospace, automotive and maintenance industries.
Community
The futuristic structure is the result of a four year team effort that included consultation with Profs. Ellen Beeman and Jen Sward.
Six years after graduating, and five years since their successful Kickstarter, the DigiPen alumni at Refract Studios are ready to launch Distance v1.0
Five DigiPen alumni gathered at PAX West 2018 to give prospective students and families a taste of what it’s like to live, learn, and work at the school.
Students, alumni, faculty and staff gathered to celebrate DigiPen’s past, present and future.
Announcements
Typically taught at the master’s and doctorate level, DigiPen’s machine learning program will be among the few offered as a four-year bachelor’s degree.
A 2003 DigiPen graduate and former DigiPen animation professor is making his feature film debut with a title that’s poised to change the industry.
A DigiPen student’s unique academic pursuits prepared her for a job with Disney she didn’t know existed — that is, until Disney came and told her themselves.
People upload speedruns of his weird joke website, trace his Smash Bros. comic for their avatars, and share his dog drawing thousands of time each Tuesday.
Faculty
A professor from DigiPen’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department invented an award-winning robot that can smell gas leaks in disaster scenarios.
How three DigiPen teammates landed jobs working on the game that’s sparked a global cultural phenomenon.
DigiPen Institute of Technology will host the 2018 Evergreen Tabletop Expo (including the ETX Game Design Academy) at its Redmond campus June 2-3, 2018.
DigiPen’s BFA program is stacked with nine former Disney animators. While their paths to Redmond varied slightly, the majority share a similar story.
