Software Used in Our Game Design Camps & Game Modding Camps

Activision^® Call of Duty^® 4: Modern Warfare™ is an action-thriller from the award-winning team at Infinity Ward. The game arms gamers with an arsenal of advanced and powerful modern day firepower, transporting them to the most treacherous hotspots around the globe to take on a rogue enemy group threatening the world. As both a U.S Marine and British S.A.S. soldier fighting through an unfolding story full of twists and turns, players use sophisticated technology, superior firepower and coordinated land and air strikes on a battlefield where speed, accuracy and communication are essential to victory.

Adobe^® Flash^® Develop games in Flash with a powerful ActionScript tool to help you automate, repeat, change, anticipate and govern the actions of games from a simple word game to a complicated multi-player game of pool. If you are new to Flash gaming, you’ll acquire the knowledge and techniques to build your own games. If you aren’t new to gaming, you’ll be able to see what you can do better–using Flash.

Adobe^® Photoshop^® is the professional image-editing standard which helps you work more efficiently, explore new creative options, and produce the highest quality images for print, the Web, and anywhere else. Create exceptional imagery with easier access to file data, streamlined Web design, faster, professional-quality photo retouching, and more.

Autodesk^® Maya^® modeling, animation, rendering and visual effects software offers artists an end-to-end creative workflow. It includes sets, advanced matchmoving capabilities and high dynamic range compositing into a single package.

Clickteam^® Multimedia Fusion 2 Developer^® is a visual, object oriented software and video game development environment that gives students complete control of application, game, and multimedia elements without inhibiting their natural curiosity. This approach allows emphasis to be placed on core concepts like planning, design, structure, logic, and troubleshooting. Students can drag and drop objects and define the behavior using events, an entirely new way of programming. This tool is powerful and enhances your application with thousands of conditions and actions and dozens of extension objects. The possibilities are endless.

NVIDIA^® (Nasdaq: NVDA) awakened the world to the power of computer graphics when it invented the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999. Since then, it has consistently set new standards in visual computing with breathtaking, interactive graphics available on devices ranging from portable media players to notebooks to workstations. NVIDIA’s expertise in programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing which make supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible. Fortune magazine has ranked NVIDIA #1 in innovation in the semiconductor industry for two years in a row.

Scratch software from the MIT Media Lab makes it easy to program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations on the web. As you create and share projects with Scratch, you learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. Scratch has been called the YouTube of interactive media. People have shared more than 500,000 projects on the Scratch website.

Spore™ How do you feel about tentacles? Why only two eyes? With a truly unprecedented level of flexibility, Spore lets you build, paint, and play with a limitless number of fun creatures using an easy drag-and-drop interface.

Steam^® is a pioneering online gaming platform that provides the ability to distribute games and other content directly to more than 20 million gamers around the world. Steam opens up new channels of distribution and allows for non-traditional product offerings while increasing profit margins to content creators.

Unreal^® Engine 3 is a fully integrated suite of cutting-edge 3D game development tools used to make many of today’s most popular computer and video games. Students taking courses based on Unreal Engine 3 and Unreal Tournament^® 3 will learn how to work with the same award-winning toolset used by top game studios all over the world.