Jim Malazita
@jmalazita.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Games & Experiential Media at RPI. STS scholar. Author of "Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine" from the MIT Press. DiGRA Board Member.
Finally, RPI has our Ph.D. in Critical Game Design, where junior scholars blend critical social and literary theory with design. Our PhD students become experts in the field of Game Studies who can also apply lessons from that field into game production. hass.rpi.edu/gsas/critica...
Critical Game Design | The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Students who earn a graduate degree in Critical Game Design (CGD) learn to blend literary, social scientific, and interpretive scholarly approaches with the arts, programming, and design. They are stu...
hass.rpi.edu
September 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Finally, RPI has our Ph.D. in Critical Game Design, where junior scholars blend critical social and literary theory with design. Our PhD students become experts in the field of Game Studies who can also apply lessons from that field into game production. hass.rpi.edu/gsas/critica...
At the Master's Level, we have an Master's of Science in Critical Game Design, where students either work in large teams to develop a commercially viable game, or work under the advisement of a faculty member to enter the world of games research: hass.rpi.edu/gsas/critica...
Critical Game Design | The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Students who earn a Master’s degree in Critical Game Design (CGD) design and develop their own games while also familiarizing themselves with critical game studies scholarship. They are students who a...
hass.rpi.edu
September 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
At the Master's Level, we have an Master's of Science in Critical Game Design, where students either work in large teams to develop a commercially viable game, or work under the advisement of a faculty member to enter the world of games research: hass.rpi.edu/gsas/critica...
We have a couple! First, RPI has our undergraduate program in Games & Simulation Arts & Sciences (GSAS), focused on a breadth + depth model of game production where students also specialize in programming, art, design, writing, or music: hass.rpi.edu/gsas/games-a...
Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences | The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
The B.S. in Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences (GSAS) at Rensselaer combines theory and practice with a strong emphasis on collaborative, interdisciplinary work in order to equip students with the...
hass.rpi.edu
September 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We have a couple! First, RPI has our undergraduate program in Games & Simulation Arts & Sciences (GSAS), focused on a breadth + depth model of game production where students also specialize in programming, art, design, writing, or music: hass.rpi.edu/gsas/games-a...
In aligning their spatial orientation to Pixar/NVIDIA/MSF's OpenUSD 3D spatial file format, shifting to Y-up is a move by Epic to continue infrastructuring both Fortnite and Unreal Engine as core parts of the 3D Web. Call it the metaverse or whatever, but gaming software is the future of the web.
June 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
In aligning their spatial orientation to Pixar/NVIDIA/MSF's OpenUSD 3D spatial file format, shifting to Y-up is a move by Epic to continue infrastructuring both Fortnite and Unreal Engine as core parts of the 3D Web. Call it the metaverse or whatever, but gaming software is the future of the web.
Open access copy of Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine
An analysis of the game engine Unreal through feminist, race, and queer theories of technology and media, as well as a critique of the platform studies fra
direct.mit.edu
June 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Open access copy of Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
While the Z-up orientation of the Unreal Engine may have been the result of either a historical oddity or a mistake (see chapter 2 of Enacting Platforms: "Orienting Z", open access and linked below from @mitpress.bsky.social ), shifting to a Y-up marks a niche, but also huge, shift for Unreal.
June 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
While the Z-up orientation of the Unreal Engine may have been the result of either a historical oddity or a mistake (see chapter 2 of Enacting Platforms: "Orienting Z", open access and linked below from @mitpress.bsky.social ), shifting to a Y-up marks a niche, but also huge, shift for Unreal.