Paul Bellezza

Our first trailer for the official XBLA version of The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom! Enjoy!

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For all the IMD people who will be attending GDC this year we are happy to announce that the Winterbottom Team will be speaking at two sessions during the course of the conference.

Our first talk is part of the session entitled: Post-mortems of Student IGF Groups which is hosted by our own Tracy Fullerton as well as professors from the Guildhall.

We'll be speaking about our experiences designing the game, gathering and leading a student run team and discussing five rights and wrongs we've encountered while working on the project.

The second session is the Experimental Gameplay Workshop hosted by Jonathan Blow (creator of Braid). We'll actually be showing Winterbottom and our B-Game Submission: The Wrath of Transpertor at the session! Transpertor is an invisible platformer where the player's avatar is invisible. The core gameplay forces user to intensely study the environment as opposed to a players actions in order to gain immediate feedback on what user’s action is doing.

The Student IGF Post Mortem is on Tuesday during the IGDA Education Summit from 2-4 in Room 131 of Northall.

The Experimental Gameplay Workshop is held on Thursday from 2:30-4:30 PM in room 2018 of Westhall.

We'd love if you came by and sat in!

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COME ONE, COME ALL!

The official Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom T-Shirts are available for the IMD Department! We got em in Medium, Large and X-Large!

You can grab them from the IMD Thesis Space over at 555 23rd Space right now! We'll be here until late tonight! Just stop on by!

Or you can just grab them up at GDC 2008!

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Mungeon Progress

Progress Update on the Wiki

I. Mungeon Production Schedule
II. Mungeon Project Overview
III. Mungeon Dungeon Asset Doc
IV. Mungeon Avatar Doc

Feel free to leave comments on the Wiki itself if you find time to have a read.

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More Information on the IMD Wiki

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Earlier this year, my pal Justin Lin (an undergraduate alum of the Cinema Television School and of some IMD classes) but together a documentary about Los Angeles as part of documenting a year long trip to China.

Part of the documentary focused on native Los Angeles food, which of course includes tacos. Justin grabbed me for an evening of all things tacos. I took him to my favorite spot in Los Angeles: Echo Park's Taco Zone (on Alvarado and Montana).

Enjoy!

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This is game is the reason I started playing RPGS. I was 8 years old. And it made me cry.

And now its being remade for DS.

Like OMG!

Via Kotaku of course.

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Latest Review at Good Goings

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Informational Meeting this Friday in IML from 7-9

Pizza and Pie!!!!

Join the Facebook Group

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Roughy Rough Rough.

Get from the Wiki iki wik.

For faculty and students only.

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