Speaker: Jeremy Gibson Bond Date: April 18, 5-6pm, EAE Game Studio(Bldg 72, 2nd Floor) Talk title: Unity’s Entity Component System: The Oncoming Storm Description: At Unite Austin 2017, Unity first introduced their Entity Component System (ECS). Since then, it has moved from R&D to public beta, and in the future, ECS will completely replace the […]
Read MoreEAE Faculty member, Ryan Bown, has earned The Faculty Recognition Award from the Career and Professional Development Center.
Read MoreSpeaker: Damean Lyon Date: April 11, 5-6pm, EAE Game Studio(Bldg 72, 2nd Floor) Talk title: VFX: The Flair You Need and How to Get It Description: An excellent VFX professional needs to combine their skills in modeling, texturing and animation with practicel experience using a variety of technical tools. In this talk Damean will describe […]
Read MoreJoin us for the EAE Launch Party! Join us for EAE’s annual open house celebration of the completion of our student game projects! We will be showcasing student games from both our undergraduate and graduate degree programs that students have been working on for one or more semesters this past academic year. Our graduating students […]
Read MoreUniversity of Utah School of Computing professor Robert R. Kessler, who is also co-founder of the U’s Entertainment Arts & Engineering video game development program, has been named to receive the IEEE Computer Society Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award for “outstanding contributions to interdisciplinary computing education through the creation of an innovative program […]
Read MoreSpeaker: Nate Olson Date: April 4, 5-6pm, EAE Game Studio(Bldg 72, 2nd Floor) Talk title: Art vs Production: Why you(Mostly) Give in to the Fans Description: If you build it, will they come? If you want to design exactly the game you want to AND make money, what should you factor in? Whose game is […]
Read MoreSpeaker: Maury Brown Date: March 28, 5-6pm, EAE Game Studio(Bldg 72, 2nd Floor) Talk title: Feminist and Queer Game Design: It’s more than Just Representation Description: Join Maury Brown as she discusses using feminist and queer disruptive design to create games that are more inclusive, empowering, and challenge dominant norms. Including representations of various identities […]
Read MoreThe Daily Utah Chronicle reports on equality in games and the EAE department. “Here at the University of Utah, we have one of the best programs for video game design. Our Entertainment Arts and Engineering program (EAE) has ranked consistently in the top 10 in the nation according to the Princeton Review. The video game […]
Read MoreJosh Marchand, a student in the Entertainment Arts and Engineering Masters program at the University of Utah, has been accepted to a position at Epic Games as a UX Researcher Intern. He is the first EAE student to get a UX research position. “I use playtests, data and analysis to ensure that the development team’s […]
Read MoreSpeaker: C Thi Nguyen Date: Jan 31, 5-6pm, EAE Game Studio(Bldg 72, 2nd Floor) Talk title: Games as the Art of Agency Description: Games, I claim, are the art form that works in the medium of agency. Playing a game is taking in on an alternate agency temporarily. We take on different abilities and different […]
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