Digital Entertainment and Design students at Abilene Christian University (ACU) are developing video games for the program that are now being published on Steam. ACU, which ranks in the top thirty universities in the nation in game design, tasks its students with designing and developing games within three months. Then, the best titles are published online for the public to play and rate.
Student Ben Briggs, who came to ACU to take part in this program, created Wave Player, a game reminiscent of the arcade game Joust, where the goal is to defeat flies and blob monsters with a bow and arrow. “It was naturally what I went to,” Briggs said. “Hang out and play video games.” Briggs found himself at ACU learning to program, code, and design characters as soon as they set foot on campus. “I had no idea what I was getting into,” Briggs continued.
Rich Tanner, who taught their introductory class, helped walk students through designing their games over the course of the fall semester. “Juggling all of the pieces and how things fit together is very doable,” Tanner said. “The tools we use and the engines we teach make it very manageable, but it is still a very monumental task.”
ACU is partnered with Unity, one of the largest game design engines in the world. This gives students the opportunity to use professional software early in their careers.
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