SGD Team Places at Rosetta Stone Game Jam 2011

This winter break, a team from the Student Game Developers attended the 2011 Rosetta Stone Winter Game Jam and took 2nd place in the student division for their game Doodle Defender.

The three students were each awarded a MacBook Air and a 1-year subscription to Rosetta Stone TOTALe. Their team, Cornflower Blue, consisted of third year Computer Science majors Nicholas Loffredo, Andrew Gaubatz, and Daniel Epstein. You can check out a video of the game in action below:

The challenge was to develop a game themed around "exploration", "layers", and "ink" in 36 hours. 11 teams in all participated with 6 teams in the professional division and 5 in the student division.

For more information on the competition and the other winners, check out the official press release.

Mid-Semester Expo Scheduled, Rosetta Stone Game Jam Info

Thanks to everyone that came out to the SGD Project Pitch meetings and signed up for SGD projects! We look forward to seeing what the end result of your collective work is at the end of this semester.

In the meantime, the SGD Fall 2009 Mid-Semester Expo has been scheduled for October 29th. Location and time will be announced when that information is available. Progress of all SGD projects will be displayed (or at least explained and elaborated upon at worst) at this event.

In addition, SGD is looking for members who would be interested in participating on an official SGD team in the Rosetta Stone Game Jam competition. The Rosetta Stone Game Jam is a competition between individuals and teams to produce a working video game with an educational component in 48 hours or less. The competition is scheduled for January 8, 2010 through January 10, 2010 and will be held in Harrisonburg, VA at Rosetta Stone's location in that city. For further information, please visit the Rosetta Stone Game Jam website by clicking here. If you are interested in signing up to participate in this project, let the SGD directors know by emailing us; the team signup deadline is November 16, so please let us know as soon as possible if you wish to participate.

RGB entered in Neoflash Competition

RGB DS was entered into the 2009 Neoflash Spring Coding Competition, where it will compete against 17 other DS games. Prizes will be given to the top 10 games, and we hope to win a DS flash cart for SGD to use for future DS development.
Check out the entry post here.

Since entering the competition, we've received a lot of feedback for RGB DS, which is a great thing! There are many complaints that the game is too hard, but they like the idea behind the game. It certainly gives us something to consider as we wrap up development.
Reviews will be coming in shortly (they're open to the public), and prizes will be sent out April 20th.