Cogswell Brings Original VR Mobile Game “We Are Cubed” To SIGGRAPH 2015’s...
Sunnyvale, CA, July 27, 2015 –Cogswell College, a historic, 600-student educational institution offering a unique curriculum fusing Digital Art, Engineering and Entrepreneurship, will have two...
View ArticleStudents at Cogswell College spend 48 hours developing games
The following article originally on the Mercury News website, February 4th 2015 written by Jasmine Leyva of the Mercury News. It covers the 2015 Global Game Jam event at Cogswell, and offers an inside...
View ArticleE3 Recap 2 – Final Fantasy 7
In 1994 a game that has been since known as a ground breaker for Japanese RPGs began development. It was originally intended to be developed and released for the Super Nintendo, and was moved to to...
View ArticleE3 Recap
The E3 Entertainment Expo is happening right now, among the slew of announcements comes some welcome news for any fan of Rareware (RARE) games. Microsoft and RARE are bringing a collection of 30 of the...
View ArticleRecent News in Animation & more
Disney is releasing two critically acclaimed and fan favorite films from the famous Studio Ghibli on Blu-Ray! Widely considered to be a masterpiece, the Oscar award winning ‘Spirited Away’ (2002, Best...
View ArticleExperience at the Game Developer’s Conference
I went to my first Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) this year, thanks to Cogswell’s ASB. From March 4th-6th, I was on a mission to do as much networking and have as many portfolio reviews as...
View ArticleTour at Zynga
There were dogs everywhere. Perhaps that shouldn’t have been a surprise to me after seeing the huge dog logo on the massive building, but it still caught me off guard in a pleasant way. Zynga also...
View ArticleWomen in Animation and Women in Games International
The animation and games industries are two places where you rarely find women working, until recently. Even Cogswell has been a heavily male-dominated school until a few years ago. What’s exciting is...
View ArticleMonolith, the future of 3D
In an industry where the standard is influenced by the goliath Autodesk, Two Developers hope to impress with their creation. Panagiotis Michalatos and Andrew Payne have coded a modeling engine that...
View ArticleCOGSWELL COLLEGE TO HOST GLOBAL GAME JAM EVENT AT SILICON VALLEY CAMPUS...
Sunnyvale, CA, January 13, 2015 — Cogswell College, a leading educational institution offering a unique curriculum fusing Digital Art, Engineering and Entrepreneurship, will serve as one of the...
View ArticleGlobal Game Jam at Cogswell College!
Global Game Jam is a worldwide event in which over 20k “jammers” meet together in various locations around the globe to make games, and this year it’s coming to Cogswell! Its an intense 48 hour event...
View ArticleCogswell Kicks Off 2nd Annual After School Program with San Jose’s...
COGSWELL COLLEGE KICKS OFF 2ND ANNUAL “AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM” FOR FALL 2014 IN CONJUNCTION WITH SAN JOSE’S INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOL Sunnyvale, CA, November 10, 2014 – Cogswell College, a leading...
View ArticleOM3D – 3D Manipulation of 2D Photos
When it comes to editing photographs, Photoshop reigns supreme. But what if there was a better approach to editing a photograph? What if you could take an element within a picture and have full...
View ArticleDay of the Devs
It was a video game enthusiast’s paradise. Screens and consoles decked every wall of (nearly) every room of the two story Old Mint building in San Francisco, all displaying demos of games to be...
View ArticleFeature Spotlight: Modeling Toolkit
Before Autodesk’s 2014 version of Maya, trying to find the mesh editing tools you needed within Maya was a bother. You had to go through a cluttered UI (user interface) just to find that one tool that...
View ArticleCogswell Student to Present Mobile App Game at SIGGRAPH
SUNNYVALE, CA – A student from Cogswell College’s Game Studio will present a newly produced, school-developed mobile app game during the 2014 SIGGRAPH Conference’s “Appy Hour” showcase in Vancouver....
View ArticleCogswell Student’s Artwork Featured On Kotaku!
One of our students, Matt “Bardler” Bard, had his polycount rock formation featured on Kotaku as, “A rather magnificent-looking, somewhat dungeonesque wall from Bardler” Clicker here for the article!...
View Article10 Most Influential Games of the 80s
It’s no secret that video games were a great deal different back in the 1980’s; from classics we still see today to the games that didn’t live to see the next decade. Remember the original versions of...
View ArticleFree-to-Play Games on the Rise
Many experts in the game design industry predict that the rising trend in free-to-play games will continue during 2014 and the foreseeable future. Insiders and outsiders alike are of the opinion that...
View ArticleSuperGenius – One Company’s Journey into the World of Outsourcing
SuperGenius started out like many small game companies – with a dream. They wanted to outsource their talent and work with the best game developers in the world. They quickly discovered that someone...
View Article