Game Labs

DePaul Originals Game Studio

<div class="ck-content"><p>DePaul Originals simulates a professional video game studio, where CDM students collaborate on the development of a single game across academic quarters until it’s polished enough for public release. The studio focuses on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine as its main development tool. By working as part of an interdisciplinary team, students develop a specialty while maintaining a broad skill base.&nbsp;</p></div>

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Game Dev & Research Labs
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Matters at Play
M @ P partners in the creation of interactive advocacy solutions for positive social transformations, especially regarding social justice, health, and environmental issues.
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HexLab
The Hybrid Experience, or HexLab, explores novel applications and games that sit at the intersection of opposites, investigating how this hybridity shapes the user experience and how to design effective and engaging hybrid experiences.
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DIGI Lab
The DePaul Instructional Game and Innovation Lab is an in-house educational game studio that collaborates with instructors, university partners, and external collaborators to create learning games and materials for the classroom and beyond.
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XR Studio
Located inside the Jarvis Innovation Center, the XR Studio is a space for the DePaul community to both create and enjoy extended reality experiences.
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DRAG Lab
The Design Research and Games Lab focuses on designing and studying games through human centered design approaches and histories.
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Virtual and Augmented Design Lab
VAD hosts classes and projects to research and develop experimental games on emerging platforms.
Software Usability and Testing Lab
Software Usability and Testing Lab
This player-user research space with an observation room and a player-participant room separated by a one-way mirror supports games user research (usability and playtesting), eyetracking, software usability, focus groups, interviews abd more.