Category Archives: In the EMC

Fall Semester and the EMC

By Giuseppe Liquori and Keeshawn Nicholson Burlington, VT – It’s September, which means students are back on campus and it’s time for a new semester. In addition, September is the month where Champlain College’s Emergent Media Center, located at the Lakeside campus, prepares for and attends some of Burlington’s biggest events in maker culture. Today, […]

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EMC Cross Team Critique No. 2

by Giuseppe Liquori Burlington, VT – This summer is going by fast! It seems like yesterday the spring semester ended, yet the EMC team has accomplished quite a bit in the past few weeks. Since our last update, we’ve had more QA sessions, visitors, and another cross-team critique. At the end of June, our MFA students […]

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EMC Cross-Team Critique Recap

by Giuseppe Liquori Burlington, VT- This past week, numerous game developers and publishers proudly showed off their work to the public at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, also known as E3, each game and project at it’s own point in development. The EMC had its own day to show off its projects, albeit not to the […]

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Summer and the EMC

by Giuseppe Liquori Burlington, VT– After a long, cold winter, it’s finally time for summer and a quick EMC update! After a short break at the end of the semester, EMC work resumed mid-May. Teams dove headfirst into their projects: The Enter the Cave team is in the midst of developing its game for a […]

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Take on the Challenge of the Ultimate Emergent Media Center Scavenger Hunt

Today is the first day of the Emergent Media Scavenger Hunt! For the next couple of weeks we will be posting clues on Facebook and Twitter – if you solve the clue and take a picture of your victory you could win a 20 dollar visa gift card to spend on anything you wish. Clues can take you […]

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Student Spotlight: Giuseppe Liquori

By Keeshawn Nicholson Get to know the students that are the driving force of the Emergent Media Center! Student Spotlight features current students, highlights and what they’re doing here, and some fun facts about them. Meet Giuseppe Liquori. Giuseppe is a second year Public Relations undergraduate student and Peer Advisor on campus. He is from Springfield, Massachusetts. […]

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TBT – BREAKAWAY Team’s First Game Testing in St. Lucia 2009

  By Keeshawn Nicholson December 17, 2009 marks the day the BREAKAWAY team landed in the Caribbean island, St. Lucia, to do their first game testing. The renown free online game for ending violence against women had only one episode at the time, today it has thirteen. This trip marked the beginning of something great, a testing […]

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Student Spotlight: Hannah Marchitell

By Hannah Wood Get to know the students that are the driving force of the Emergent Media Center. Student Spotlight features one of our current students, highlights what they’re doing here, and some fun facts about them. Meet Hannah Marchitell. Hannah is a first year MFA student and holds a bachelor’s degree in social documentation […]

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EMC Gaming Event

By Gabe Carey It’s hard to believe how quickly Thanksgiving Break is approaching us. Just last week we were gaming away at the first-ever EMC Gaming Event, celebrating the recently released Halo: The Master Chief Collection and promoting our social justice-centric game projects to an assortment of new faces. There was pizza to be eaten, […]

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TBT – IBM Game Tomorrow

By Kyle Patterson A student-team worked with IBM Fellow, John Cohn, to create an interactive multimedia companion piece for an electronic game that IBM developed for Engineering Week 2008. The educational product is delivered in a multimedia of ways that kids relate to and it illuminates what makes up an electronic game and what courses […]

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