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Philly devs went retro with all the puzzles in this ’80s-inspired ‘room escape’
Room escape games are stuck in the past. At least that’s what Elisabeth Garson noticed when she studied the experiential games, which are basically real-life adventure video games where you’re tasked...
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Believe it or not, 16,000+ people watched this video game match Sunday
The CLG Red team was supposed to lose. And they did. So how come thousands of people were streaming online their match against another team, heavily favored to win, playing a video game? Well, because...
View ArticleHere’s what happened when gaming entrepreneur Arad Malhotra challenged US...
After a grueling few months of non-stop work, immigration research and legal dilemmas, I am pleased to report that I have been able to survive a wave of entrepreneurial challenges as a foreign national...
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This high school game developer just got honored at the White House
Nicodemus Madehdou went to the White House yesterday to show off his mobile game, Turbo Finger Swipe. Madehdou, 19, a senior at New Foundations Charter School, was one of 20 young game developers of...
View ArticleThis rubber band launcher is aiming to be the next big thing
Fresh off a successful U.S. debut at the Fall Toy Preview in Dallas, the minds behind a futuristic-looking rubber band launcher aim for it to be the next big “it” item. “Shooting rubber bands is...
View ArticleWhy Drexel’s Frank Lee is involved in a televised athletic competition for...
The Triumph Games will air tonight at 7 p.m., and thanks to Drexel video game professor Frank Lee a whole round of competition will be dedicated to eSports. The Triumph Games, launched by Philly-based...
View ArticlePhilly Game Forge is collecting gifts for kids at CHOP again
It’s time for the Philly Game Forge’s Holiday Social, version 2.0. For the second year, the shared workspace for game developers (and other makers now, too) is having a holiday party and charity toy...
View ArticlePhilly kids are going to design video games to play on the Cira Centre
Forget mobile. With his newest project, Frank Lee is putting young game designers on an enormous platform. Lee, the Drexel professor behind the the biggest video game in the world, won a $100,000 Intel...
View ArticlePhilly Tech Week is taking over Dilworth Park April 29
If you attended last year’s kickoff at Dilworth Park, you know it shouldn’t be missed. If you didn’t? Well, let’s just say the video games and interactive tech exhibits got more attention than the beer...
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How a video game company from Drexel is helping kids with cerebral palsy
For Drexel physical therapist Margaret O’Neil, one big challenge is coming up with exercises that are both physically and intellectually stimulating for her cerebral palsy patients. Using active video...
View ArticlePhilly’s health IT scene should pay attention to the rise of ‘serious games’
Game researchers and developers are at Drexel’s ExCITe Center today, discussing the state of “serious games.” That is, games that aren’t purely for entertainment. They could be games for healthcare or...
View ArticleDrexel game designers win $10K top prize at Intel University Showcase
After their advisor, Dr. Jichen Zhu, rejected a handful of pitches for the game they’d create for their senior project, Drexel student Andrew Lichtsinn and his classmates didn’t have much confidence in...
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Philly Game Forge calls it quits
The Philly Game Forge, a coworking space for Philly’s indie game developers, will be shutting its doors on June 30. Its last day is a Thursday: double whammy. "The business model didn't work. It would...
View ArticleThe maker of @SEPTA_SURREAL cleaned up his act and launched a fiction platform
Twenty-five-year-old Ryan Epp used his programming chops in 2014 to set up a Twitter bot that perpetually trolled SEPTA using its own service notification tweets. Norristown: maintenance filled cars...
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What you missed at the Philly Game Forge closing party
The usual Philly Devnight crowd gathered last night at 239 Chestnut St. for one last Thursday meetup at the Philly Game Forge. There was music, there was gaming, there were even impromptu dance-offs:...
View ArticleNathan Solomon on why coworking and video games (probably) don’t mix
After the Philly Game Forge announced it was calling it quits, Philadelphia Game Lab’s Nathan Solomon took to his personal blog to reflect on his decision to not to open a shared work space for game...
View ArticlePhilly Game Forge’s emotional shutdown was covered by Engadget
Looks like we weren’t the only ones who found emotion and nostalgia at the Philly Game Forge shutdown party at the end of June. Engadget’s Jessica Conditt wrote a moving piece on what the night felt...
View ArticleThis guy turned to Craigslist for some Pokémon dough
It’s all about the money, isn’t it? In his quest to become the Uber of “Pokémon Go” players, Northeast Philly-local John Yankanich, 27, will drive you around for two hours while you catch ’em all. The...
View ArticleThese YouTubers trekked around Philly for Pokémon and found the good stuff
Ryan Schott and Mike Matei from YouTube channel Cinemassacre walked around Philly to try and catch ’em some. “Going into the city totally ups the ante,” Schott said. “It totally changes the way games...
View ArticleCould Pokémon Go actually make the world healthier and happier?
In the last two weeks, smartphone users have been consumed by the ability of their phone to transport them into an augmented reality world that mimics the Pokémon adventures created by Nintendo in the...
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