Berg, School of Design showcase work at Tiny Con 3 - News at Louisiana Tech

Louisiana Tech Associate Professor of Design Jerry Berg II and 3 students minoring successful Game Design — Kristina Martinez, Thien Vu, and Trevor Taylor — precocious participated successful Tiny Con 3, an indie crippled improvement event, hosted by the Society of Play successful Dallas.

Berg, an Art successful Science Fellow, showcased his VR crippled prototype, “Extreme Bowling,” astatine the event. Berg has been moving connected “Extreme Bowling” for the past respective months and was selected arsenic 1 of 20 indie crippled developers to amusement his enactment astatine the exclusive event. This fast-paced and immersive VR acquisition puts players successful a cyber metropolis environment, and the crippled uses a operation of mechanics for mini-golf, bowling, and pinball to implicit each level.

Events similar Tiny Con let students to marque networking connections wrong the crippled plan manufacture and speech to developers, which helps to supply penetration into the crippled instauration process arsenic good arsenic acquisition the games presented.

Tech postgraduate Sara Chmielewski, who lives successful Dallas and is pursuing a vocation successful the crippled industry, attended with the Tech group.

Berg besides hosted a Game Design store successful the eSports Center connected field for Ruston High School students progressive successful the school’s Game Gurus nine coordinated by RHS algebra teacher Matt MacDaniels. The lawsuit informed the students but besides helped spotlight Tech arsenic a spot to larn crippled plan and hopefully pull aboriginal students to the University’s crippled plan minor.

At the workshop, Berg taught students the basics of utilizing the Unity crippled engine, arsenic good arsenic the cardinal principles of crippled plan and basal logic needed to physique a elemental game, archetypal steps for students funny successful pursuing a vocation successful the gaming industry.