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IGM GDD Academic Programs Rank in the Top 5 in the US - Princeton Review 14 Mar 2013 | 06:55 pm
Rochester Institute of Technology is one of the top schools to study video game design for 2013, according to new international rankings from The Princeton Review. RIT’s game design and development pr...
Join IGM and MAGIC March 28 for Alumni Event @ SF / GDC! 5 Mar 2013 | 08:42 am
Be our special guest! Once again IGM will be hosting an alumni event on Thursday evening of the Game Developer's Conference, which this year is Thursday, March 28, 2013. The event will be held from 6:...
Games in Education: Getting Girls in the Game 23 Jan 2013 | 11:56 pm
More coverage for our work with Second Ave. Learning and the Martha's Marvelous Machines game (funded through the SBIR program of the National Science Foundation). This time we made the news at Gamifi...
IGM Welcomes Global Game Jam 2013 23 Jan 2013 | 06:57 pm
It's that crazy time of year when we build lots of stuff... that's right, it's time for Global Game Jam! We are once again hosting a local node of the world-wide event (organized by IGM Prof. Jessica ...
IGM Research into Games, Gender, and Education featured at MindShift 15 Jan 2013 | 08:16 pm
Our work with partners Second Ave. Learning (funded by the National Science Foundation) was the source of a recent article at KQED MindShift. In addition to the talented group at Second Ave., IGM Prof...
IGM Hosts Microsoft Imagine Cup 2013 Development Weekend 28 Nov 2012 | 01:18 am
It's that magical time of year again, as we host Imagine Cup 2013 on campus! From Nov. 30th - Dec 1st the GDD lab will be the local site for development for this exciting event. We are grateful to Mic...
IGM Helps Support Random Hacks of Kindness 28 Nov 2012 | 01:07 am
Random Hacks of Kindness is an innovative twist on what are traditionally known as random acts of kindness. As a part of this initiative, our work in open-source software creation through Associate Pr...
IGM's Elizabeth Lawley Talks About JPP on Spark 27 Nov 2012 | 10:49 pm
Nora Young, host of Spark on CBC Radio, speaks with IGM's Professor Elizabeth Lawley about Just Press Play at the Rochester Institute of Technology. They talk about adding a "game layer" to education....
IGM Professor Stephen Jacobs featured in WSJ Interview 19 Nov 2012 | 10:01 pm
Associate Professor Stephen Jacobs was featured in a recent story on serious games for the health-care, as part of the coverage of the recent Games for Health Europe 2012 conference. Published by the ...
IGM Joins Academic Consortium on Games for Impact 7 Nov 2012 | 12:05 am
IGM/RIT has joined the Academic Consortium on Games for Impact. This group has been conceived by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) at the White House to “create a multi-university gro...
