UMBC has earned an Honorable Mention on The Princeton Review's third annual list of undergraduate schools to study game design, placing it in the top 32 undergraduate schools for game design and...
March 1, 2012
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Microsoft is offering a great incentive for Global Game Jam teams at UMBC who make a Windows Phone game this weekend: a Windows Phone. Come early Friday (at 4pm) to UMBC ENG 005 to see a pre-jam...
January 25, 2012
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Time is running out to sign up for the Global Game Jam this weekend, but there is still space. Anyone can participate, it doesn't matter if you have never made a computer game before. This...
January 23, 2012
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The Global Game Jam is a yearly event where participants at sites all over the world try to make games on a common theme in the same 48 hour period over the last weekend in January. UMBC has...
December 8, 2011
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New data is out from the Entertainment Software Association. UMBC GAIM is in good company as one of 343 universities offering degrees in game design, development or programming. It's not...
August 18, 2011
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Variable bit rate GPU texture decompression
Yesterday, at the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering in Prague, Dan Baker of Firaxis Games presented the paper "Variable bit rate GPU texture decompression" paper. This is work started by Dr....
June 29, 2011
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UMBC DEC sponsored by Facebook Developer Zynga
The UMBC Digital Entertainment Conference is an annual event organized by the Game Developers Club to bring game developers to campus to share their knowledge and experience. For the first time,...
April 14, 2011
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