• Lab Project

    The Immersive Video Intelligence Network (IVIN) utilizes recently developed technologies such as 360-degree photography and immersive video to create a game with accurate models of buildings and other sites that may be considered at risk for terrorist attacks, hostage situations, or other populated disasters. Our current development site is Columbus, Ohio.

  • Lab Project

    FoodMASTER (Food, Math, and Science Teaching Enhancement Resource Initiative) is a compilation of programs aimed at using food as a tool to teach math and science. Virtual FoodMASTER teaches students math, science, nutrition, and cooking without having to step into a kitchen.

  • Student Project

    Blazar is a throwback to classic arcade games. Playing as a resource collecting spaceship, the goal of the game is to collapse the universe through a super-black hole known as a blazar. Blazar was created by six Digital Media undergraduates in just under three months and was recently submitted to the Independent Game Festival for competition.

The Game Research and Immersive Design (GRID) Lab, an initiative of Ohio University's Scripps College of Communication, was developed by college staff and faculty to provide the Appalachian Ohio region with training, education, and an opportunity to develop technical and creative skills through the use of interactive digital game technology. The GRID Lab also serves as an innovative and creative center for undergraduate, graduate, faculty and staff research and project development.
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Recent News

Jay Chaffin and Evan Glover from MDIA 256, Digital Game Design have won Honorable Mentions in Game Career Guides latest Design Challenge - Literary Inspirations.

http://gamecareerguide.com/features/792/results_from_game_design_.php

By Erin Roberts, roberte1@ohio.edu

ATHENS, Ohio (Nov. 9, 2009)—The Scripps College of Communication was among three Centers of Excellence at Ohio University approved by the university’s Board of Trustees on June 26, 2009 and continues to be in contention for the designation in the newly-created University System of Ohio (USO).

“Being designated a Center of Excellence by the Ohio University Board of Trustees is recognition of our national prominence as a college,” said Scripps College of Communication Dean Gregory J. Shepherd.

Sophomore Samantha Temple received Honorable Mention in GameCareerGuide.com’s Horror Game design challenge.

“It was amazing to find out I had won honorable mention,” said Temple, a digital media student. “I was excited the morning I found out; I couldn’t sit still in any of my classes that day.”

The challenge was to explore the horror genre and develop a game concept, avoiding clichéd horror concepts. GameCareerGuide.com, which holds weekly design challenges, received an overwhelming number entries for this category, prompting site administrators to increase the number of winners from the usual five to ten.

Recently submitted to the Independent Game Festival, Blazar is featured on the Internet Television show Hak 5. Darren Kitchen and Shannon Morse featured Blazar from the student submissions of the IGF 2009 competition. They described Blazar’s game play as “arcade action fun.”

Edited segment from Hak 5 Episode 416: