{"id":10405,"date":"2010-02-18T17:24:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=10405"},"modified":"2019-01-18T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T15:18:07","slug":"vote-for-ucf-gamers-in-indie-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/vote-for-ucf-gamers-in-indie-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote for UCF Gamers in Indie Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A game developed by a team from UCF\u2019s College of Engineering and Computer Science is in the finals of a prominent public competition for indie games.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed oembed oembed-video d-flex flex-column align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-4by3\"><noscript><iframe title=\"Galactic Arms Race (GAR) Informational Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MOKNoZSAGGQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><iframe title=\"Galactic Arms Race (GAR) Informational Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MOKNoZSAGGQ?feature=oembed\" class=\" lazyload\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Galactic Arms Race, an action-packed online space combat game spearheaded by Erin Hastings, a Ph.D. student in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and his advisor, Ken Stanley, an assistant professor, is one of 12 finalists in the online Indie Game Challenge Gamer\u2019s Choice awards&nbsp;competition that ends today.<\/p>\n<p>The game is unique in that users control the evolution of particle-based weapons used in the battle sequences based on their preferences \u2013 so the game is always changing.<\/p>\n<p>Awards will be announced Feb. 19 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An online space combat game developed by a team from UCF\u2019s College of Engineering and Computer Science is in the finals of a prominent public competition for indie games.  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