2018 MassDiGI Game Challenge – Finalists
Indies
- Sunshine Committee with Garden
- ML Studios with Mythicast Arcane Academy
- Zen Dragon with Neon Bullet
- Weeping Witch Studios with Ice and Bone
Serious
- Micropup (Champlain) with Keeper
- Dystrophic (Harvard) with Hexile
- Obliti (WPI)
College – Beta
- Grind Games (Becker) with Fur
- Starflight Studios (Becker) with Defenders of Atlantis
- Jinboz (WPI) with The Palace of Monarch
College – Alpha
- Psychoactive Entertainment (Becker) with Project Boynton
- Team RGB (QCC) with Data Strain
- Skerter Industries (Becker) with Exploding Cube
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Honorable Mentions
- Ill Teteka (Becker)
- Disco Drop (Becker)
Stay tuned for more updates!
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Batter up! Becker Derby hits the stores
Baseball and softball fans can now take on Becker’s mascot, Hank the Hawk, and his tricky pitches in an attempt to swing their way to stardom in the newly launched video game, Becker Derby. The mobile game features Hank as the pitcher challenging players in their quest to hit as many home runs as possible before striking out. The app, produced by Worcester, MA-based studio Maximum Crash which was founded by Becker alumnus Rejon Taylor-Foster ’17, is now live and free to download for Android and iOS users.
“We wanted to find a way to offer students and fans a true baseball and softball experience that could bring them closer to the teams,” said Matt Tittle, Becker’s Assistant Athletic Director for Communications. “Now, instead of waiting for Spring, our fans can experience the excitement of Becker baseball and softball year-round.”
The full game experience pits players against Hank’s gravity bent pitches, crowds of SEEGull agents, and a dark dimensional force only known as the Void. With some advice from @regalSeagull194, players may stand a chance against the Void’s retro-dimensional universes filled with failed experiments and trapped invaders.
Becker Derby is a collaboration between Maximum Crash studios, the Becker College Athletics Department and the Massachusetts Digital Games Institute (MassDiGI) at Becker.
The Becker baseball team starts its season on Saturday, March 3rd at the New England Baseball Complex against Newbury College at 11:00 a.m. Becker softball starts on March 11th against UMass Boston at 4:30 p.m.
For additional images and videos of Becker Derby, please click here.
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Drop by booth #13130 to check out our games or just say hi! This year our booth will feature Leap A Head, Triage, HTR 198X, Takeover Trail, Little Grimm and Raise The Bass as well as 2018 Game Challenge Grand Prize winner Fur and People’s Choice Award winner Keeper. In addition, MassDiGI’s managing director Monty Sharma will be on a panel on Friday at 12:30 entitled “Educate Yourself! What Schools Need to Teach in Game Design” and executive director Tim Loew will be on a panel on Sunday at 11:30 entitled “Esports Meets Academia: How to Build an Esports Program.”
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Please join us for our annual PAX East party at District Hall. Click here for more information and to get a ticket.
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Join us on April 3 at 7:00p at the Barrett Center in Worcester for a talk by Desh Deshpande on the power of entrepreneurship. This talk is part of the Franklin M. Loew Lecture Series at Becker College and is co-hosted by MassDiGI and the Yunus Social Business Centre. Seating is limited. RSVP to lectures(at)becker.edu.
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All are welcome to our annual GDC get together. Click here for more information and to RSVP.
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Join us for our annual MassDiGI Game Challenge pitch competition. This year’s contest is being held in Worcester at Becker’s brand new Barrett Center. Click here for info.
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In collaboration with Becker College, the Becker College Esports Club, the Becker College Franklin M. Loew Lecture Series and Estarz, we’re happy to welcome Crumbz to Worcester for a talk entitled “The state of esports” at 4pm in Becker’s brand new Barrett Center. Click here for more information.
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For MassDiGI, not only did January usher in a new year, it ushered in a new era as our New Ventures Center (NVC) opened. As a part of Becker College’s impressive new $7.3 million Colleen C. Barrett Center for Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the NVC will give us the opportunity to provide business assistance services to an even greater number of students and startups from campuses and communities across the region with the ultimate goal of seeing more Massachusetts-made games in the marketplace.
In addition, the NVC will serve as a home to select a Company-in-Residence and Faculty-in-Residence. To that extent, we’re very pleased to have Petricore Inc. joining us as our inaugural Company-in-Residence along with Asst. Prof. Robert Biggert from Assumption College as our inaugural Faculty-in-Residence.
The Barrett Center is also home to Becker’s Yunus Social Business Centre, an AR/VR lab, an esports space, a lecture hall, a digital gallery, studios, team rooms, faculty offices and MassDiGI’s administrative office.
Generous support for the Barrett Center as well as the NVC came from many foundations and individuals as well from grants provided by the US Dept. of Commerce Economic Development Administration (EDA) and MassDevelopment.
Check out the coverage of the opening semester here: Worcester Telegram, Worcester Business Journal and Worcester News Tonight/NECN.
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With the New Year just around the corner it’s time to share some important upcoming dates:
- SIP application period opens 1/2/18 and closes 3/21/18
- Game Challenge – 3/2/18 and 3/3/18 (competitor registration opens – 12/21/17)
- Made In MA at GDC – 3/20/18 (RSVP opens 1/26/18)
- SIP Decision Day – 3/30/18
- Made In MA at PAX East – 4/5/18 (RSVP opens 2/8/18)
- SIP Begins – 5/15/18
Stay tuned for more details coming soon!
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