Microsoft Releases Game Developed in ECE's Advanced Graphics Lab

A video game developed by master's student Justin Kellogg in ECE Professor Pradeep Sen's Advanced Game Development course was released by Microsoft on December 16 and is available for free trial download from its Xbox Live website.

In the course, students developed advanced versions of three different games for release on the XBOX 360 console by working with Microsoft's XNA game development environment. Kellogg made a game called Magnetic Defender, an "intense top-down shooter with a magnetic twist." The player defends four missiles as they head toward their intended target while using a magnetic field to keep enemy projectiles away from the missiles. The game includes a two-player cooperative mode and 3D graphics.
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UNM is seeking a visionary leader for the position of Dean of the School of Engineering. Located in Albuquerque, the largest city in New Mexico and one of the fastest growing in the Southwest, UNM is a Carnegie Very High Research University and a federally designated Hispanic-Serving Institution. UNM is the largest and most comprehensive of the state’s institutions of higher education. [more]