I am happy to announce that our programs were featured by name and example in the Keynote Address for Microsoft GAMEFest 2007 by Christopher Satchell, General Manager for the Game Development Group at Microsoft. In addition to mentioning our program and discussing a bit of how we use their products, he gave a demo of the “Aliens” game produced by our students over the past few months. Many congrats to Chris Cascioli, Chris Baker, Peter Kuhn, Ada Tse, Ed Huyer, Colin Doody, and Heewa Beecham. Your work looked incredible on the big stage!

Jim, Chris, and I caught the live video stream of the talk this morning, and it is now available for download
from Microsoft. (the RIT part is about 1/3rd the way in at the 13:00 mark...).

More information on GAMEFest is available at:

http://www.xnagamefest.com/

Many congratulations to our students and everyone who helps make these programs a success!

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Andrew Phelps
Director, Game Design & Development
College of Computing & Information Sciences
Rochester Institute of Technology
amp@it.rit.edu games.rit.edu