Catch up on the latest news and events from around the DigiPen community.
Announcements
We’re proud to announce the winners of this year’s DigiPen Student Life Excellence Awards!
Industry
DigiPen Institute of Technology is pleased to announce an official partnership with Andretti Autosport for the 2016 INDYCAR season.
Students
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.
Alumni
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.
Dr. Charles Duba, Senior DigiPen Lecturer, talks about building and conducting research in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.
Originally hired to work on documentation for Epic Games’s acclaimed Unreal Engine, DIT student Robert Gervais ended up contributing a lot more.
We chatted with Andy Schatz, creator of Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine, to talk about what it means - if anything - to be indie.
More than 20 DigiPen Institute of Technology students and alumni helped bring 343 Industry’s Halo 5: Guardians to life.
DigiPen graduate Jesse Dunne (2010) is a producer at Undead Labs, makers of the popular State of Decay zombie survival game.
Student Aviva Schecterson from team Aurora talks about the development process for the open-world game ÆON in our team spotlight video.
For incoming DigiPen freshmen, the newly implemented Peer Advising Leaders (PAL) program may be a valuable tool for success.
This year’s PAX Prime featured the participation and involvement of a large number of DigiPen Institute of Technology students and alumni.
Two DigiPen graduates and longtime business partners are getting set to release the first PlayStation 4 game to be developed in Mexico.
