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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: April 10, 2013
Josh Preston
GVU Center
College of Computing
Summary Sentence:
Students created video games in the course of a semester through VGDev, an extracurricular game development group.
Full Summary:
Students created video games in the course of a semester through VGDev, an extracurricular game development group.
Game Developers for a SemesterGeorgia Tech held a student game developers day April 5 in the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons where students showed off playable games they created in a single semester, wrapping 13 weeks of marathon programming, designing and testing.
About 40 undergraduate and graduate students finished the gaming gauntlet in which the students organized themselves into development teams and met weekly to ensure completion of the games through VGDev, Georgia Tech’s student video game developers group. The games were playable for the crowd of more than 100 attendees and will be ready in time for finals week free on the web and mobile devices at www.vgdev.org.
One aspect that sets apart VGDev's work is that the projects are led and created entirely by students in their free time, apart from any course credit, which has helped in shaping the interdisciplinary group, says Chris DeLeon, a Ph.D. Student in the Digital Media program at Georgia Tech and founder of the development community.
Games from previous semesters are currently available for free at www.vgdev.org.
