Utah Games College of Architecture and Planning

EAE Lecture Series – “Cardboard Fantasies”

The EAE Game Lecture Series Presents: Title: Cardboard Fantasies: Board Game Design & Storytelling Speaker: Ryan Laukat & Alf Seegert Date: Feb 1, 5-6pm Location: EAE Games Studio (Building 72, Level 2) Open to the public Description: Join us for a discussion about how to tell a story in board game design by designers Ryan Laukat and Alf Seegert. […]

EAE Lecture Series – “Call of Duty Analytics”

The EAE Game Lecture Series Presents: Title: Call of Duty Analytics Speaker: Justin Shacklette Date: Jan 29, 5-6pm Location: EAE Games Studio (Building 72, Level 2) Open to the public Description: Call of Duty is one of the biggest entertainment franchises in history. Every single game you play generates megabytes upon megabytes of data. Go behind-the-scenes with one of […]

EAE Lecture Series – “More Than a Movie”

The EAE Game Lecture Series Presents: Title: More Than a Movie: Cinematic Design in Games Speaker: Ashley Kuhl Date:Jan 25, 5-6pm Location: EAE Games Studio (Building 72, Level 2) Open to the public Description: Cinematic design in games, while a very niche field, is an important addition to narrative games that visually communicate the story. But unlike film, […]

EAE Lecture Series – “Tales From the User Research Crypt”

The EAE Game Lecture Series Presents: Title: Tales From the User Research Crypt Speaker: Kelly Boudreau Date: Dec. 7th, 5-6pm Location: EAE Games Studio (Building 72, Level 2) Open to the public Description: Don’t fancy a career in games user research? Just want to make games!? How a class (or two) on GUR helps you make better games (and […]

AE Lecture Series – “Games as Psychedelic Experiences”

The EAE Game Lecture Series Presents: Title: Games as Psychedelic Experiences Speaker: Cory Davis Date: Nov 16th, 5-6pm Location: EAE Games Studio (Building 72, Level 2) Open to the public Description: An invitation to consider the unmatched power of games to create intense, emotionally affecting, even hallucinatory experiences. Let’s take a strange trip through psychedelic movements past and present […]

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Bored, Stressed Or Feeling Blue? There’s An App For That At The U.

By Daphne Chen | Posted Dec 11th, 2016 @ 9:18am SALT LAKE CITY — Outside, the room is hot, the crowd is buzzing and the DJ is bumping. But inside 6-year-old Tarrah’s head, the sweet tones of classical music are piping through her ears as she conducts a school of fish around an underwater shipwreck. […]

Prescription To Play: U Working To Improve Your Health With Apps, Games

By Peter Rosen | Posted Mar 17th, 2017 @ 7:03pm SALT LAKE CITY — How do you get a newly diagnosed diabetic to take his or her blood sugar level seriously? Perhaps, by turning that data into a mountain range. “A lot of the medical information that we get is abstracted, that it’s information about […]

University Of Utah Researchers Develop Virtual Reality Games For Medical Uses

By Mike Anderson | Posted Apr 28th, 2017 @ 6:34pm SALT LAKE CITY — Seeking a career in the video games industry, Ben Steele never thought he’d find himself using his programming skills to help spinal cord injury patients. “Being able to help people with it adds a level of gratification to the work,” Steele […]

U Game Development Program Creating More Than Entertainment

Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News University of Utah Entertainment Arts and Engineering student Jared Brunner shows his children “Izzy and Patrick,” a game he created at the U. in Salt Lake City on Friday, April 28, 2017. SALT LAKE CITY — Faced with more than 100 program options across the U.S., Kenny Green said winnowing […]