Four new video games being developed by students of UCF\u2019s Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy will be demonstrated Friday and participants can try their skills playing the games with titles such as \u201cWarp Derby\u201d and \u201cPitch Jumper.\u201d<\/p>\n
The games represent more than six months of work by four teams of about 15 students each. The free demonstrations will be at 2 p.m. at UCF\u2019s Center for Emerging Media, 500 W. Livingston St., Orlando.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really excited to let everybody else play the game,\u201d said AJ Walker, project lead of \u201cPitch Jumper,\u201d in which the songs a player chooses from a personal library create a customized gaming experience. \u201cI hope they like the characters and the art, and I hope that they think the music fits the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
The students have been busy putting finishing touches on the games before the unveiling.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re running around like crazy ants trying to fix all kinds of little loose ends,\u201d said Seth Buchanan, project lead on \u201cEscherreal.\u201d His team\u2019s game is a perspective-bending puzzle game influenced by the mathematically inspired artwork of MC Escher.<\/p>\n
The other games to be introduced are \u201cGrapple,\u201d in which players grapple over rooftops to protect a city, and \u201cWarp Derby,\u201d a vehicular combat game that features a portal gun and TV sportscaster style.<\/p>\n
Faculty, staff and students from FIEA will be available to comment on the projects, and the event will be live-streamed at http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/fiea.<\/p>\n
FIEA offers a project-based education that prepares students for the film, new media and videogame industries. It is an accredited graduate program with faculty from Microsoft, EA, Take 2, Sony and Disney. In 2011, 2012 and 2013 it was named one of the top 5 graduate game-development programs in North America by the Princeton Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re just excited to show what we\u2019ve done,\u201d said Arlen Eldridge, project lead of \u201cWarp Derby. \u201cWe\u2019re really proud of it and we just hope people appreciate it as much as we do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four new video games being developed by students of UCF\u2019s Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy will be demonstrated Friday and participants can try their skills playing the games with titles such as \u201cWarp Derby\u201d and \u201cPitch Jumper.\u201d The games represent more than six months of work by four teams of about 15 students each. The free demonstrations will be at 2…","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":51397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[768,1687,1765],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-51396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","tag-center-for-emerging-media","tag-fiea","tag-florida-interactive-entertainment-academy"],"yoast_head":"\n