Taking a break from reality and stepping into a world where you have a little more control over things probably sounds pretty good right now. Tech companies, like the one formerly known as Facebook, think […]
Tag: Entrepreneurial Game Studio
Sharing Means Winning in Drexel Students’ Video Game
The latest student-designed video game out of Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio is encouraging players to get close — really close — while racing through an obstacle course virtually and physically linked to their teammate. In […]
Going Toe-to-Toe With ‘Pokemon Go’
Imagine you’re a student game developer and your first game is mentioned along with the likes of video game royalty like the Mario Brothers and Pokemon. That’s the case for a student company from Drexel’s […]
Q+A: Survival of the Coolest? The Struggle to Get Noticed in the Marketplace of Games
As a small game development company or startup, it’s hard to get noticed in a sea of hundreds of thousands of new games each year. This is one of the constant challenges for students embarking […]
Can ‘Pokémon Go for Hackers’ Teach You Cyber Self-Defense?
A Drexel professor wants to help you think like a cybercriminal. Why? Well, as pervasive as cybercrime is — from portable card scanners picking up your personal and financial information via remote radio frequencies, to […]
Q+A: Pokémon Go Introduces The General Public to Augmented Reality Gaming
Niantic, Inc., a San Francisco-based software development company, made waves in the world of mobile gaming July 8 when it released a mobile augmented reality game that is the latest edition of the wildly successful […]
Shelving Your Concept of ‘Library’
Temple’s Paley Library will be transformed into an interactive game environment this weekend. As with many of Philadelphia’s interactive public art displays in recent years, Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio has had a hand in shifting […]
Student-Designed Game Squeezes Out Competition at Intel Game Developers Conference
While the latest edition of the Princeton Review’s annual rankings once again slotted Drexel among the top 10 schools for game design, a group of Dragons set the program apart with a game that edged […]
Building a Video Game Showdown for Vets on CBS Sports Network’s ‘Triumph Games’
On Veterans Day, CBS Sports Network will unveil “Triumph Games” a seven-day competition pitting 12 military veterans head-to-head in challenges of mind and body. Among the challenges are a triathlon, an obstacle course, a car […]
No Couch Necessary: Digital Media Program Showcases Top Games and Animations For Your Playing, Viewing Pleasure
The students who made a video game where you can save kittens in space, and help real cats on Earth as well, have taken an insidious turn with their second mobile game offering: Malevolence, Inc. […]