Games for Good: MDM Students Build Serious Games
This semester three MDM student projects are using games or gamified technology to teach healthy behavioral changes in response to three very different problems industry clients posed to them. The three teams: The Goal Diggers, Viva la Vida, and the Brain Bros—while given different problems and briefed by very different clients—all decided to solve their clients’ problems by building digital, gamified solutions.
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Demo Day Mixed Start-ups with Accelerators, Funders and Like-Minded Entrepreneurs
Last Tuesday, Centre for Digital Media held its first annual Alumni Startup Demo Day & Mixer, where alumni startup companies from the MDM program, along with startups from CDM’s partner schools - UBC, SFU and BCIT - presented their companies, met with investors and networked with entrepreneurs.
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Top Centre for Digital Media News Stories of 2018
2018 was a fun time at the Centre for Digital Media. MDM students worked on many interesting industry projects, we processed a record number of MDM applications, held an unprecedented number of IDEA-X’s (10!), hosted some fantastic events on campus (including a student panel discussion with BC Green Party's Andrew Weaver, and VIFF Immersed, an immersive experience to re-imagine storytelling through xR), and we welcomed our newest full-time faculty member, Laura Ballay, to our impressive team of faculty. As 2018 draws to a close, we wanted to highlight the most popular stories of 2018.
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CDM Welcomes New Faculty Member, Laura Ballay, With 20 years Experience in Interaction Design
Centre for Digital Media is pleased to welcome Laura Ballay as the newest full-time faculty to the Master of Digital Media program.
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What Makes an MDM Student Cohort Successful?
This is a farewell speech from Master of Digital Media Program Director, Richard Smith. The speech was spoken at the MDM ungrad on August 17th, a celebration of the completion of the
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CDM’s Founding Director Dr. Gerri Sinclair Awarded Bill Thompson Lifetime Achievement Award
Centre for Digital Media’s founding director, Dr.
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Got Talent? We do. Annual Showcase Was a One Stop Shop for Programmers, Artists, Designers and Producers
MDM students showed off their work last Thursday evening to a sold out Industry Showcase.
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MDM Program Launching an xR Prototyping Lab
This summer the MDM Program will launch an xR Prototyping lab. The initiative, led by
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