Students in Southern Illinois University’s School of Media Arts are celebrating the 2024 solar eclipse by developing and releasing a video game about it! Undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in a combined class for RTD 489: Electronic Media Workshop and MCMA 543: Media Arts Studio Seminar have been working on the game all semester with the set in stone deadline of releasing before the solar eclipse on April 8. Professor Kevin Mercer has guided students in developing the game using the Unity game engine, while they also created all the visual and audio assets from scratch. The game is described…
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Is PSVR2 going away? Is a PS5 Pro coming soon? Who is Jeff Minter? Does anyone remember MultiVersus? What belongs in the World Video Game Hall of Fame? All these questions and more addressed this week! The crew this week is Mario Sanders, Alicia Utecht, Christina Ivey, and Justin Young.
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One of the fun parts of Game of the Year festivities is not just picking our top ten games, but also being able to spotlight some other titles through unique awards. You can listen to the full podcast where we debated these awards, or simply read the results below. This project is done for fun based on games we had time to play this year. It shouldn’t be viewed as an effort to make a definitive ranking as much as it is a way for you to learn about new games. Best Mobile Game WINNER: Connections RUNNER-UP: Final Fantasy VII:…