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LOS ANGELES – April 14, 2021 – USC Games, North America’s No. 1 game design program, collaborating with long-term partner, Jam City will feature the game designers and developers of tomorrow at their annual USC Games Expo, the largest school-hosted gaming event in the world. Building on last year’s highly successfully livestreamed event, returning host Geoff Keighley, will launch the multi-hour event that will premiere on May 15
th, 2021 at 12PM PST on twitch.tv/USCGames. The show will feature over 70 games made entirely via distributed development by students and teams spread across the globe.
Following USC’s announcement of virtual learning last year, SCA students worked to adjust to the challenges of filmmaking during the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo Courtesy of Natalie Serratos)
Mar. 16 will mark one year since USC announced that instruction for the remainder of the spring 2020 semester would be carried out online. Though many students hoped for a return to campus come Fall 2020, virtual learning continued even for students creating films.
For the School of Cinematic Arts’ students, the difficulties of a pandemic production environment revealed themselves rapidly. As the pandemic sprints toward its one year anniversary, SCA students continue to cope with the challenges of isolated creation.