Category: Game track
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UMBC Game Developers Club to meet Noon Wed. 9/11
UMBC Game Developers Club will meet at Noon on Wednesday September 11 in Engineering 005a. Prospective members and the curious are welcome.
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UMBC Game Developers Club to hold Summer Game Jam 8/2-4
UMBC Game Developers Club will hold a 48-hour summer game jam starting at 5:00pm Friday august 2 in room 005 in the Engineering building at UMBC.
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UMBC Digital Entertainment Conference, 10-5 Sat. 4/27
10-5 4/27:The 2013 UMBC Digital Entertainment Conference will be held 10-5 on Saturday, April 27th in LH5 at UMBC and feature speakers from Firaxis Games, Zenimax, Pure Bang Games, Bioware Mythic, and Mindgrub.
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President Obama on computer science, Zuckerberg and video games
In a Google+ hangout with a group of bloggers, President Obama talks about computer science, Zuckerburg and video games.
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Global Game Jam returns to UMBC, Register Now!
UMBC will once again host the Global Game Jam. The weekend-long game development event will be held this year from January 25-27. UMBC is one of hundreds of host sites around the world. Other local sites include College Park, the Universities at Shady Grove, and George Mason. “I expect an exciting mix of students, friends,…
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Baltimoregamer.com, for all your gaming news needs
If you're interested in what's going on in Baltimore's gaming scene, check out Baltimoregamer.com. The site covers local gaming events in the Baltimore and D.C. area, as well as developments in the game industry, and career tips for aspiring video game developers. The site also includes features articles, like its three-part series called "So You…
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Smithsonian Explores The Art of Video Games
photo courtesy Nintendo What do The Legend of Zelda, Halo 2, and Super Mario World have in common? They're all featured video games in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's latest exhibition The Art of Video Games. The exhibition–which celebrates 40 years of video game history–takes a look at 80 video games that pushed the artistic…
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Chat with Graphics Engineer Joshua Barczak
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4th Annual Global Game Jam Returns to UMBC
Game enthusiasts of all stripes hunkered behind computer screens in the UMBC GAIM Lab for the 4th annual Global Game Jam—a fast-paced weekend where teams around the world conceive and creative video games around a common theme. The three-day event, which took place Friday, January 27th through the 29th, drew nearly forty participants ranging from…
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Streaming video from UMBC Global Game Jam
A group of nearly 40 participants assembled yesterday afternoon at the UMBC 2012 Global Game Jam site. The Global Game Jam is an annual event where small teams design and create computer games over the course of one weekend. The teams will upload their final games to a central site by 3:00pm EST Sunday. Here’s…