Student Designed Game on Display at International Games Day in Chicago
Three students from the interactive media program have a new board game in production and they are getting a chance to show it off at the 4th annual International Games Day in Chicago.
10/23/2017 8:45 AM
Three students from °®¶¹´«Ã½ÊÓƵ’s interactive media program have a new board game in production and they are getting a chance to show it off at the 4th annual International Games Day in Chicago.
Dark is the Night is published by Ape Games and the brainchild of game design majors Zachary Abbott (Park Forest, IL – Rich East High School), Arwen Boyer (Morton, IL – Morton High School), and Joshua Estill (Miami, Florida – Felix Varela Senior High School). They designed the game as a class project in their sophomore year. Now seniors, their game is catching the attention of gamers everywhere.
For International Games Day, more than a thousand libraries all around the world celebrate play. The °®¶¹´«Ã½ÊÓƵ students will demonstrate Dark is the Night to hundreds who visit at the Chicago Public Library: Harold Washington Library Center () on Saturday, November 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
is required to attend Chicago’s International Games Day convention. Dark is the Night can be found on Amazon at and the APE Games website at .
This is the second °®¶¹´«Ã½ÊÓƵ student designed game to gain international attention this year. A senior game design capstone team created a video game called “Starcats”. It placed in the top 5 of the E3 Collegiate Competition, sponsored by the Entertainment Software Association. The team was invited to LA for the E3 convention in June to exhibit and share the game with thousands of attendees from around the world.
°®¶¹´«Ã½ÊÓƵ’s Department of Interactive Media Chairman, Ethan Ham, says these are two examples that reconfirm that °®¶¹´«Ã½ÊÓƵ is home to a world-class education in interactive media and game design.”