Congratulations to Erin Reynolds (MFA 2012) and team! Her thesis project ” Nevermind” has been nominated as “Most Innovative” at the Games for Change Festival in NYC this summer. Nevermind is a biofeedback-enhanced psychological horror game in which the player must leave the comforts of reality to explore the dark and twisted world of the subconscious. Nevermind strives [...]

Check out this Gamasutra article by Kris Ligman on IMGD’s very own Professor Richard Lemarchand: Leaving AAA: Why Naughty Dog’s star designer became a teacher

I just finished some changes to Spacewalk, a networked multiplayer game where you play as astronauts piloting EMUs to explore the exterior of the International Space Station. I developed the game over the course of five days as a prototype for thesis prep (CTIN-542/548). It now supports the Oculus Rift, which alters the experience dramatically. Here is an [...]

Introduction Extending guest experience beyond the gates of a traditional theme park, and essentially, into guests’ homes, is already happening — through online presence, social networking and other strategic technologies. Traditionally the guest experience began at the park turnstiles, but that model is changing. Now the strategy is about circular flow that begins when the guest [...]

GDC :: Two things I did in San Francisco really stuck with me this year: I went to SFMOMA and the Walt Disney Family Museum to see the exhibit on the making of Snow White. SFMOMA really as inspirational because it brought me back in touch with my desire to make things. I feel that most [...]

USC Interactive Media & Games faculty Jeremy Gibson and students from our MFA program play Ninja in front of Blooming Flowers , an interactive installation  which uses the newly developed Full-Body Scrubber. And the audience became performers shaped as Lego blocks in front of the other procedurally-generated, real-time, ‘ fun-house mirror’ at Rhythms and Visions 2 , April 26, 2013.  Here’s what it looks [...]

Topic:               IMD Project Showcase Time:               Wednesday, May 1, 6-9pm Location:        USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC), Room 122 Featuring Spring Semester Class Projects from : – CTIN 405 Design and Technology for Mobile Experiences (Essen) – CTIN 484/489 Intermediate Game Design (Brinson/Lemarchand/Essen) – CTIN 492 Experimental Game Topics (Lemarchand) – CTIN 499 Special Topics: Games [...]

The Animation division would like to invite the Interactive Media and Games division to an informal workshop with their  Rhythms+Visions guests, Davide Quayola and Natan this Friday at 10am in SCB 104. You will see their process and learn how they create their live/real-time work. They will have everything set up so we can gather around, look at [...]