{"id":7401,"date":"2019-05-14T16:28:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T21:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/?p=7401"},"modified":"2019-05-14T16:30:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T21:30:38","slug":"sau-game-design-students-produce-game-for-worldwide-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2019\/sau-game-design-students-produce-game-for-worldwide-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"SAU Game Design students produce game for worldwide distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An SAU Game and Animation Design student, right, gives a demonstration of the “Depths of Madness” video game that’s to be distributed to a worldwide audience on Steam to SAU Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. David Lanoue.<\/p><\/div>\n

Students in Southern Arkansas University\u2019s Game and Animation Design programs have produced a game that is being published on Steam, a digital distribution platform for games with a worldwide user base.<\/p>\n

\u201cDepths of Madness\u201d is being released on May 15, 2019, via the Steam Store<\/a>. It is an atmospheric horror game that takes place underwater and will have you sitting on the edge of your seat while you explore the sea base and face the unknown.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Game Lab at Southern Arkansas University has been working overtime on several projects this year,\u201d said Kurt Coppersmith, assistant professor of art. \u201cOne of which, \u2018Depths of Madness,\u2019 created by senior game development students, is certainly no different.\u201d<\/p>\n

A team of 16 students under the direction of faculty produced \u201cDepths of Madness\u201d in a joint endeavor between SAU\u2019s two Game and Animation Design programs from the Art and Design and the Computer Science departments. It was done as a Senior Game Development Project as a culmination of their game and simulation studies at SAU.<\/p>\n

The Game and Animation Design programs at SAU offer prospective students a competitive and affordable avenue to a lucrative future developing mobile apps, 3-D designs and lifelike animations. For more information, visit www.SAUmag.edu\/Gaming<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students in Southern Arkansas University\u2019s Game and Animation Design programs have produced a game that is being published on Steam, a digital distribution platform for games with a worldwide user base. \u201cDepths of Madness\u201d is being released on May 15, 2019, via the Steam Store. It is an atmospheric horror game that takes place underwater… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":7403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[271,207,32641,68219,7753],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-academics","8":"category-college-of-liberal-performing-arts","9":"category-featured-layout","10":"category-gaming","11":"category-homepage","12":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}