Frank Lee, PhD, founder of Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio, considers how artificial intelligence could change the way video games are made and how we play them.
Tag: video game design
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Celebrating 30 Years of Block-Stacking Bliss With a 29-Story Game of Tetris
Somewhere between the planning and coding of the last month, the serendipitous timing of Frank Lee’s towering game of Tetris was brought to our attention: The skyscraper-sized iteration of the classic game is actually taking […]
Pong’s Big Moment in Lights
Playing an 8-bit video game on an 85,360-square-foot monitor in front of an entire city – perhaps the dream of anyone who grew up during the golden age of the arcade in the 1970s and […]