Recent news and success stories from the DigiPen (Singapore) community.
Faculty
DigiPen (Singapore)’s Vivek Melwani talks about the video games that feature Singapore’s skyline and how game designers go about mapping a virtual city.
Students
DigiPen (Singapore) student games Lurking and Iris picked up three awards between them at the Independent Games Festival China this month.
Industry
DigiPen (Singapore) welcomed Iñaki Rueda, Race Strategist for Lotus F1 Team to give a special presentation for students and guests.
Three student games from DigiPen (Singapore)—Iris, Lurking, and Meowchine Mayhem—were named finalists for the 2014 Independent Games Festival China.
Community
Hwa Chong Institution, one of Singapore’s most prestigious junior colleges, offered a DigiPen elective class, Multiplatform Game Programming.
DigiPen (Singapore) student film Cat Fight, created as a senior project heads to the Thurrock International Film Festival in the United Kingdom.
DigiPen (Singapore) student film Eye of the Beholder is currently being featured at the PLAY@NMS children’s gallery of the National Museum of Singapore.
Samir Abou Samra, Chief Technology Officer for DigiPen, spoke to a group of more than 60 students at Singapore Polytechnic last week.
Profile of the innovative audio-based survival horror game, Lurking, developed over the course of six months by students at DigiPen (Singapore).
DigiPen (Singapore) senior lecturer Sandara Tang Sin Yung holds digital illustration master class for 150 students at Nanyang Polytechnic.
Announcements
DigiPen (Singapore) offers series of Master Classes at Singapore Polytechnic and Nanyang Polytechnic in game design, computer science, and digital art.
Alumni
2013 BFA graduate Desmond Wong talks about his job at Tecmo Koei and how DigiPen prepared him for his career.
Student game Descension: Depths of De’Mae becomes one of six finalists in the Independent Games Festival China (IGF China) Student Competition.
Five new games by DigiPen (Singapore) RTIS, BFA, and Game Design students: Flux, Nightmare, Mad Tea Party, Potawatomi, and Rorrim.
Blizzard Entertainment, developer and publisher of the popular Starcraft franchise, dropped by DigiPen (Singapore)’s campus for a Q&A session.
Three games from DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore have been selected as student finalists at the Independent Games Festival China.
Graduate Tio Lok Ling talks about her work on the animated series that is looking to help stop the spread of dengue fever.
DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore graduated its inaugural class of students in a ceremony held at its campus on June 23, 2012.
A group of DigiPen (Singapore) students completed a short animated film during their recent visit to the Redmond campus.
DigiPen (Singapore) student games Pixi and Void took home three titles at the annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) China.