“Amid the unstoppable growth of the multibillion-dollar gaming industry around the world, the state government of Massachusetts joined forces with schools and businesses to establish the Massachusetts Digital Games Institute (MassDiGI) four years ago.” Read the full story at GMI Post here.
Join MassDiGI’s Monty Sharma at MDH on January 27 in New York. More info here.
Catch our 12:30 pm panel “Game devs: The next generation” featuring SIP15 alumni Veronica Ni (RISD), Ari Green (MIT), Rejon Taylor-Foster (Becker) and Rachel Burton (WPI) at the Boston Festival of Indie Games FIG Talks at Microsoft New England in Cambridge on January 16. Schedule here. Registration information here.
Join us on January 10, 2016 at The Quarters in Hadley for the PVGD Make Talk Play Meetup! Details forthcoming.
Come meet fellow game makers, researchers and funders in Washington, DC. The Federal Games Working Group (FGG) and the Higher Education Video Game Alliance (HEVGA) have joined forces to convene the first ever Games + Higher Education + National Impact Event in Washington, DC on December 10-11, 2015. More information here.
Take this, please: 2015/16 Mass. game industry survey
By Tim Loew, executive director, MassDiGI
A few years ago we launched our first survey of the Mass. game industry. We learned quite a bit. We hope to learn more this time around, too.
That said, I’d like to thank all the survey respondents in advance – be they companies, studios, divisions, universities, hobbyists, non-profits, indies, schools, departments, colleges, etc. The information you provide in the 2015/16 Mass. Game Industry Cluster Census & Econometric Survey is critical in helping understand aggregate workforce, business, education and technology trends while providing the statistical foundation for expected biennial comparisons as well as ongoing efforts to attract talent, grow the sector and build alignment across industry, academia and government. Confidentiality is assured. Only aggregate data will be reported.
I’d also like to thank Prof. Pacey Foster at UMass Boston and the folks at the UMass Donahue Institute for there invaluable assistance.
I encourage you to share the survey link with anyone and everyone in your network. The more data, the merrier.
Survey link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1y1bAAVNM_EPz1pt5CgEWUhRASN6GOBuDMVcZWKcbrck/viewform
The survey will remain open through January. Results are expected to be announced soon thereafter.
Drop by our booth at !Atrevete! Exploring STEM College and Career Expo on campus at Worcester State University. Information here.
Leadership Worcester’s Economic Development Session II will feature panels including MassDiGI. More information can be found here.
Join us on campus at Mt. Holyoke College for HackHolyoke! Information here.
Clap your hands: Limbs now available
By Tim Loew, executive director, MassDiGI
Limbs – Puzzle & Dislimberment, a free, fun and match-three game is now available to download on both the App Store and Google Play. The game, created during the 2014 MassDiGI Summer Innovation Program (SIP), was developed by students James Spavold from Becker College, Catherine Shen from RISD, Andrew Krischer from Northeastern, Sienna McDowell from WPI and Renzo Heredia from Berklee College of Music who all teamed up to bring the game to life.
Working over that past summer, the team, using Unity, produced a good game – watch the trailer here. From there, we brought Limbs into our LiveCode Studio program at Becker during the 14/15 academic year. Through LiveCode, more students from Becker as well as other schools had roles in the further development of the game and getting it ready to launch.
This fall, the LiveCode 15/16 launch team, a group of students from across a range disciplines, put the final touches on the game and it is now available to download for iOS and Android.
It is shaping up to be a busy semester for the launch team which plans to publish Midnight Terrors, also a SIP14 and LiveCode 14/15 & 15/16 game, and Hibachi Hero, a SIP15 and LiveCode 15/16 title, before the end of the year.
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