Catch up on the latest news and events from around the DigiPen community.
Students
Using DigiPen as a hub, 18 student and community teams spent the weekend crafting games around this year’s theme, “Roots.”
Announcements
DigiPen has been ranked a top five game design school in North America and abroad for the 14th year in a row.
Alumni
Learn how four Dragons teamed up to craft wild, technically challenging jokes on Xbox Game Pass’ breakout hit.
“Convergent Voices” features work by 22 instructors from DigiPen’s BFA in Digital Art and Animation program.
Through charity, DigiPen’s new student club is connecting the campus community to the community at large.
After forging one of the PlayStation 5’s biggest hits, the BA in Game Design alumnus recounts the DigiPen journey that led him there.
At Visual Concepts, a roster of DigiPen master’s graduates are building the NBA’s official video game.
A team of DigiPen students had cause to celebrate after their scientific payload project flew on a Blue Origin rocket.
Held virtually on Handshake, the event connected 257 Dragons with 19 game and tech companies.
Take a look back at all the student and alumni successes, campus developments, and Dragon events that defined this year.
Faculty
We’d like to recognize the latest full-time faculty and take a closer look at their diverse backgrounds in games, education, and more.
The DigiPen graduate brings his compositional know-how to Gearbox’s new Borderlands spinoff.
Nightingale and Playfair, DigiPen’s two newest lab rooms, equip students with controlled test environments and new research tools.
This year’s Rookie Awards included several honors and commendations for student games, film projects, and more.
The co-founders of Artful Games discuss their unique debut title, born from a freshman game project.
The DigiPen BFA graduate is taking The Loud House and The Casagrandes from TV screens to the printed page.
Mandi Paugh was a student at DigiPen when she inadvertently created what would go on to be the longest-running fan site devoted to Capcom’s “Blue Bomber.”
The three-student DigiPen game team breaks down their viral hit fusing chess matches with deathmatches.
We caught up with graduates Ryan Spencer and Jeff Keely, two veteran programmers at Deep Silver Volition who helped ship the new Saints Row reboot.
The 2018 DigiPen BA in Game Design graduate breaks down his work with KBR at one of NASA’s major research centers.