RIT students collaborate to create games with students around the globe, from Japan to Senegal RIT game design and development students participated in a virtual cultural exchange this semester. Teams collaborated with students from Japan and other countries to create game prototypes, including SkyHigh, a management game where players aim to amplify the voices of minorities in a floating city.
International travel may be limited, but it hasn’t stopped RIT game developers from collaborating with students across the world to create new game prototypes.
As part of a gameplay and prototyping class at RIT this spring, 25 game design and development students got to participate in a virtual cultural exchange with 30 students at the Japanese college Kyoto Computer Gakuin (KCG). The student teams learned about each other’s cultures and overcame language barriers and time zone differences to create projects for a global game jam.
The False Memory Syndrome at 30: How Flawed Science Turned into Conventional Wisdom Â
In early December of 1990, the young academic was feeling confused. Though she had recently been granted tenure and was a happily married mother of two, she was weighed down by a surprising surge in anxiety. To get some relief from her distress, she decided to enter psychotherapy.
When she mentioned in an early session how much she was dreading the prospect of seeing her parents during the upcoming Christmas vacation, her therapist asked if she had ever been abused. âI said, âNo,â but later that day, I began experiencing disturbing flashbacks. Over the next few weeks, I remembered that my father had molested me when I was a young child,â said Jennifer Freyd, a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, in a phone interview. âWhen my parents arrived for their visit, I couldnât handle being with them, and my husband blurted out the reason. They ended up lea