IGM Faculty

Andrew Phelps is the Director of Game Design & Development at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. He is the founding faculty member (with a lot of help!) of the Masters of Science in Game Design & Development within the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, as well as the Bachelors of the same name, and his work in games programming education has been featured in The New York Times, CNN.com, USA Today, National Public Radio, IEEE Computer, and several other articles and periodicals. He regularly publishes work exploring collaborative game engines and game engine technology. He maintains a website featuring his work as an educator, artist, programmer, and game addict, and currently teaches courses in multimedia programming, game engine development, 2D and 3D graphics, and game development theory. Primary research interests include online gaming, electronic entertainment, 3 dimensional graphics and real time rendering, virtual reality, interactive worlds.