Mason Game Design Program

05/16/2022

Congratulations to all of our graduates! Family and friends of grads are welcome to join us for Commencement on Friday, May 20th at 10AM in EagleBank Arena. Our degree celebration will take place on the same day at 3PM in the CFA concert hall. We can't wait to see you all!

05/10/2022

The 2022-2023 Tencent Games Merit Undergraduate Scholarship application is now open! Multiple scholarships of $2,000 to $12,000 will be awarded - made possible by a generous donation from Tencent Games. For consideration, the application and letter of support should be received by May 13, 2022.

Apply here:

Sub Navigation Why Game? Admissions Academics Student Resources News About Give Tencent America Merit Undergraduate Scholarship OVERVIEW Undergraduate Computer Game Design students are invited to apply for Tencent America Merit Undergraduate Scholarships for the 2022-2023 academic year. The Tencent....

05/07/2022

Attention students seeking an internship: The DCXR Lab at GMU is recruiting part-time interns for VR research. If you would like to learn more, click here:
https://craigyuyu.github.io/home/group.html

To apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1O1aCGCjW6QbCJc1sLDXKEf8SCgGcf6mgY3ooqN8Agkwa3A/viewform

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05/03/2022

Unreal continues to shine a spotlight on features in their new UE5. This week, we wanted to share some interesting developments of Mass, a program that helps the game engine process massive amounts of entities.

Learn more here:

Watch our evangelism talk ‘Large Numbers of Entities with Mass in Unreal Engine 5’ from the State of Unreal 2022 livestream.In this talk, we explore how the ...

05/01/2022

As the semester draws to a close, we want to congratulate our graduating seniors! We will be holding the Senior Game Design Expo on Thursday, May 5th in the JC Bistro from 10AM-1PM. Come celebrate our seniors and play their capstone games.

Get excited by viewing last year's expo here:

See Student and Alumni Achievement Meet Our Faculty and Staff Start From Day One Sub Navigation Award-Winning Faculty Student and Alumni Achievement Senior Expo Guest Artists and Speakers Start From Day One Proximity to D.C. Study at Mason Korea An Opportunity to Shine At the end of each year, our g...

04/29/2022

The MIX is hosting Maker's Market on Wednesday, May 4th in Horizon Hall 1408. Students will be showcasing and selling their crafts from 11:30AM to 3:30PM. Come out and support our student artists!

04/26/2022

Unreal Engine 5 is jam-packed with new features for all people of the entertainment industry to enjoy. This demo goes over creating and manipulating simulations in UE5, check it out!

Next up in our exploration of UE5, we’ll be discussing fluid simulation! Niagara is jam packed with incredible features that can create stunning visuals, so ...

04/22/2022

Unity 2021 boasts an extensive amount of features and systems to help make game building easier for people of all skill levels. This article will show you how to navigate and use the UI toolkit to put eye-popping, functional UI into your game.

UI Toolkit is a collection of features, resources, and tools made for developing user interfaces and Editor extensions. First introduced as UI Elements, UI Toolkit offers a retained-mode UI framework to facilitate the development of custom UI for Unity Editor extensions.

04/19/2022

Curious about new and improved features in Unreal Engine 5? This guided tour from Chris Murphy will go over building a scene from scratch and show you where to download the new Unreal Engine 5.

Watch our evangelism talk ‘Unreal Engine 5 Guided Tour’ from the State of Unreal 2022 livestream.Haven't yet taken the plunge into UE5 and want a peek at wha...

04/11/2022

The College of Visual and Performing Arts will be hosting Mason Artist Alley this Saturday, April 16th! Come support student artists that will be selling their very own art work - admission is free to all!

04/06/2022

This year we will have a booth to represent our department at the East Coast Game Conference this year (April 19 - 21) in Raleigh, North Carolina, and you have the opportunity to join us!

If you're interested in joining us, please email Professor Nam ([email protected]) and include a brief goals statement by midnight April 9th. Goals statements should be no more than 300 words and attached as a separate document. Students may also be asked to participate in a brief interview.

If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected].

04/04/2022

Unreal's MetaHuman allows for creation of hyper-realistic, readily rigged and animated human models. This tutorial shows you how to customize textures to make your own unique MetaHumans.

Learn how to edit MetaHuman textures by adding unique attributes—like tattoos and scars—to their face.By practicing on an older character, you’ll learn key t...