PAX East: March 21-24, 2024 – Boston, MA
Join us in Boston for PAX East! Stop by WPI’s booth (10048) and say hi!
Boston GameDev Week: May 5-11, 2025 – Various locations, MA
Check out Boston GameDev Week here! And be sure to join us at our annual Made In MA event on May 8th. All are welcome.
JoyArt Boston: February 9, 2024 – WPI Seaport, Boston, MA
JoyArt is an intercollegiate game art competition for connecting students with industry professionals. Anyone who is currently a student (or was within the past 6 months) in the Boston area is encouraged to submit by January 26 – you don’t need to make something new, and are welcome to send in existing portfolio pieces. The finalist event is scheduled on February 9 in Boston. For more information, please visit here.
Holiday AI Jam: December 12, 2023 – WPI Makerspace, Worcester, MA
Please stop on by the WPI Makerspace in Innovation Studio tomorrow between 12-3pm for some snacks and some holiday AI crafts! All are welcome!
Boston Games Community Holiday Party: December 7, 2023 – WPI Seaport, Boston, MA
RSVP here.
IGDA Clark Game Expo: November 18, 2023 – Worcester, MA
Join us at Clark IGDA’s Game Expo from 3-9p. Free and open to all. For more info and register, please click here.
BostonVR Meetup: November 16, 2023 – WPI Seaport, Boston, MA
Join us for BostonVR’s meetup at WPI Seaport featuring iQ3Connect. More info here.
Beginning our 14th year – 10/19/23
On October 19, 2010 an impressive group of people from across the game industry, higher education and the public sector gathered in Worcester for an event called “MASS Impact: Video Games, Economic Development & Job Creation” to kick around an idea – and that idea became Massachusetts Digital Games Institute. After that event, a steering committee was formed, another meeting was held and MassDigi was formally launched at an event on April 26, 2011. The rest is history.
Original logo, 2011
Over the years, we’ve tried many things, some more successfully than others, made changes and adjustments, started up efforts and wound down some but we’ve always kept a primary focus on students, jobs and the games community. And, as we begin our 14th year, with change as a constant, that approach and that focus remains.
MASS Impact event flyer, October 19, 2010
Video game institute unveiled in Worcester, April 26, 2011
BostonVR Meetup: October 23, 2023 – WPI Seaport, Boston, MA
Join us for BostonVR’s meetup at WPI Seaport featuring Modulate. More info here.
GAME LAUNCH: Zen out in Merge Monastery! – 8/29/23
Merge Monastery, a free, fun merge game, is available for download now at Google Play.
Stuck in an emotionally hard place, you stumble upon an old garden corrupted by bitter emotions that needs a bit of pruning, love, and care.
The world could use a little more positivity, and what better way to represent that idea than by growing happiness through the literal fruits of your labor?
The mobile game was created during the first-ever 2023 MassDigi Summer Studio program by a core development team of Clark University students including Maxwell Xavier, Jay Lam, Wednesday D’Angelo, Ismail Alatise, Alona Yeganova, David MacRae, Emily Clewes, Charles Marble, RJ Anthony, Tyler Gaughan, Ed Greig, Porter Orvetti and Chenxi Gao.
Watch the trailer here and download Merge Monastery today for Android!
