Catch up on the latest news and events from around the DigiPen community.
Students
Students in the DigiPen Jazz Ensemble held their first public performance this August when they opened for Kirkland Summerfest in Kirkland, WA.
Using an Xbox Kinect and over 100 pounds of Kinetic Sand, DigiPen students built a unique controller for their strategy game Sand Garden.
Israeli game design students from Tiltan School of Design and Visual Communication came to DigiPen for an intense hands-on learning experience.
DigiPen student Alex Bennett is a 2016 recipient of the McMillen Foundation art scholarship.
Alumni
Keith Kaisershot shares the story of his journey from DigiPen’s RTIS program to his current VR programmer role at Other Ocean Interactive.
Graduate Ryan Chew talks about his journey from DigiPen to his current role on the Overwatch team at Blizzard Entertainment.
For the second year in a row, students from DigiPen Institute of Technology have been selected to participate in the E3 College Game Competition.
Industry
For close to 10 years, DigiPen’s R&D team has been developing data visualization software for some of the biggest teams in professional auto racing.
DigiPen graduate Patrick Bulman walks us through the development of GrooVR, a virtual reality project that lets you experience your music in new ways.
Announcements
We’re proud to announce the winners of this year’s DigiPen Student Life Excellence Awards!
DigiPen Institute of Technology is pleased to announce an official partnership with Andretti Autosport for the 2016 INDYCAR season.
Jimi Huard and Professor Jeremy Thomas have been working together to determine if it’s possible to use atmospheric data to predict earthquakes.
In its 2016 ranking of the top schools for students to study game design, The Princeton Review places DigiPen in the top five spots once again.
DigiPen students won a total of eight awards in the 2016 GDC Student Narrative Analysis Competition, including three Platinum winners.
We caught up with DigiPen graduate Ilya Nazarov, a concept artist at Bethesda Game Studios who recently worked on the art of Fallout 4.
On Feb 6, two DigiPen alumni received the Annie Award Outstanding Achievement in Production Design for their work on The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show.
Faculty
DigiPen is proud to welcome Dr. Eva Iwer to the Department of Computer Science.
DigiPen students on Team Overboard are going hands-on with the HTC Vive to create a psychological thriller virtual reality game called Hereafter.
Check out our breakdown of the biggest news and events at DigiPen in 2015!
In a recent special issue ranking the “The 100 Greatest Videogames,” Edge magazine included the 2007 first-person puzzler Portal as its No. 12 selection.
