Corelibrary - Boost your Unity3D Projects!
Games Engineering student Cameron Reuschel published the "Core Library", a code collection developed primarily at the JMU to boost the scalability of Unity projects for free and open source. Get it from the Unity Asset Store!
New Games Engineering Trailer
We show footage of typical teaching & research situations and of projects supporting our main fields of research: Real-Time Interactive Systems, Interactive Simulations, Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence.
GameLab Twitch Streaming Presentations
The students of all semesters of the programme Games Engineering are going to present the intermediate stage of their projects on Monday, 4.2.2019, starting at noon (CET), live on our Twitch channel.
ForestRingGames @ GameLab
January 14, all Games Engineering students were invited to a presentation by ForestRingGames, the developers of the successfull multi-player game TowerDuel. The event was also streamed live on Twitch and is still available.
Next Indie Outpost in Würzburg
A cordial invitation to the next Indie Outpost, an exchange platform for game developers, on November 20 2018 starting at 7pm at Coworking Würzburg (Veitshöchheimer Str. 14).
Franken Game Jam - A Full Success!
More than 60 participants in Würzburg and Bayreuth took part in the first Franken Game Jam (Franconian Game Jam). The result: 17 ingenious games (download links inside). Congratulations to the finishing teams and big thank yous for everyone who contributed to this event!
VSGAMES 2019: 1st Call For Paper
The community of the VS-GAMES covers a broad variety of facets of virtual worlds and games including game design, software engineering, computer graphics, human-computer interaction techniques, pedagogical and psychological models and evaluations. The common denominator of the conference is that all of these different efforts and perspectives target serious application domains – from museum exhibitions over deep sea robotics interfaces to training and rehabilitation.
GE nimmt am Franken Game Jam teil!
Der Franken Game Jam ist ein ehrenamtlich organisierter Game Jam in der Region Franken. Dabei kann jeder an der Uni vor Ort oder online teilnehmen. Die entstandenen Spiele werden dann auf dieser Website verlinkt. Wenn Du nicht weißt, was ein Game Jam ist oder wie man mitmachen kann, hab keine Sorge! Alle Infos findest Du auf der Website.
GE @ Pukkelpop - one of Europe's biggest Festivals
75.000 people a day visited Pukkelpop, one of Europe's biggest festivals. The Games Engineering group of the JMU Würzburg joined forces with the police of the Belgian province of Limburg to provide a unique virtual reality (VR) experience: an award-winning serious game on the adverse effects of alcohol in individual traffic for VR.
GoToXY visits GameLab
Frank Zwick and Sven Fiebiger, the owners of GotoXY AV Media, a company specialised in motion capture and photogrammetry visited the GameLab.
Next Indie Outpost in Würzburg
A cordial invitation to the next Indie Outpost, an exchange platform for game developers, on 17 April 2018 starting at 7pm at Coworking Würzburg (Veitshöchheimer Str. 14).
WueWebWeek Event at the Zuse Lecture Hall
On Thursday, 8th March 2018, at 17:30 p.m. the professorship of Games Engineering, chair of Computer Science 9, hosts an eSports-Event in the Zuse lecture hall together with industry partners in the course of the WueWebWeek 2018.
Interview in the Main Post
Christopher Kassulke from our partner HandyGames gave an interview in the Main Post. In this context, our Games Engineering program was advertised.
VS-GAMES 2018: Call for Papers is out now!
The 10th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES) will take place at the JMU from 5. to 7. September. The Call for Papers is out now!
Games Engineering Students' Presentations Live on Twitch
Join our Games Engineering students' online presentations on Monday, 5. February from 12pm to 4pm. You will experience a rapid succession of pitches of their diverse 1st and 3rd semester projects and a preview of some of the themes that you will see at the HCG EXPO this summer.
Games Engineering Brings eSports to WueWebWeek
We are collaborating with the ZDI Mainfranken and Wueconomics e.V. to bring an eSports event to the WueWebWeek. It's an informative and highly interactive event with a professional FIFA 2018 show match. It will take place at the Zuse Lecture Hall, Building M2, at 5:30 pm.
Fourth Indie Outpost in Würzburg
A cordial invitation to the first Indie Outpost, an exchange platform for game developers, on 23 January 2018 starting at 7pm at Coworking Würzburg
Infinity Jam
Herzliche Einladung zu unserem 48 stündigen Game Development Jam am 20. Oktober 2017 in an der Uni Würzburg.
Ringvorlesung "Digitale Innovationen"
Herzliche Einladung zur "Digitale Innovationen" im Wintersemester 2017/18. Zu den Sprechern gehören Prof. Brigit Lugrin und Prof. Sebastian von Mammen.
New Embodiment Lab
HCI group wins contest to establish a new 'EmbodimentLab' in the Bavarian initiative 'Innovationslabore für Studierende' in the Bavarian initiative 'Zentrum Digitalisierung Bayern (ZD.B)'. The new lab will strengthen the Würzburgs research around 'Humans and Intelligent Machines'. The lab is initially founded for two years with with 223.000 €.
Indieoutpost
Herzliche Einladung zum Indie Outpost in Würzburg, einer Austauschplattfrom für Spieleentwickler
MINT-Vorkurs Informatik und Infotag
Herzliche Einladung an alle neu zugelassenen Studierenden zu den Programmiervorkursen beginnend am 22.09.2016 und zum MINT Info-Tag am 04.10.2016.
Neue Lab Hardware eingetroffen
Weitere HTC Vive Sets sind für die Labs eingetroffen. Sie werden für die Games-Ausbildung und Virtual Reality Forschung eingesetzt.
Talk auf Quo Vadis Game Developers' Conference
Prof. Latoschik hält einen einen eingeladenen Vortrag "The Quest for the Holodeck - Past, present, and future of Virtual Reality" auf der Quo Vadis 2016, Deutschlands internationaler Games Developer's Konferenz
New Program Games Engineering
HCI group wins contest to establish a new program 'Games Engineering' in the Bavarian initiative 'Digitaler Campus Bayern'. The program is initially founded for 6 years with 1.243.000 €
New Chair Digital Media Processing
HCI group wins contest to establish a new chair for 'Digital Media Processing' in the Bavarian initiative 'Zentrum Digitalisierung Bayern (ZD.B)'. The new group will strengthen the Würzburgs research around 'Humans and Intelligent Machines'.
