


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: