Spring 2008 - Final Presentations

Team photos taken right before their final presentations.

Project CA - Cultural Awareness. In 14 weeks they produced a four minute animated film about cultural awareness in the workplace.


The Trino Team conceptualized, designed and built an XBOX game in one semester.

Soft Launch Celebration

This was a big day for the teams - they "soft launched" the projects they've been working on all semester. We celebrated this evening with a BBQ at Carl's house. I was so busy cooking that I forgot to take pictures of the real meal, but we did s'mores for dessert.

This is a candid picture, but it looks like a posed picture from a magazine. I mean really, one person cooking and everyone else standing around being entertained by it? But you can see that everyone else was already eating. BTW, Soo is trying the advanced s'mores technique where you jam the chocolate INTO the marshmallow before you roast it - that melts the chocolate, too. Yumm.

Play Day in San Francisco

A bit of R&R was in order after a month of intense work by both teams, so Jiyoung organized a tour of San Francisco for everyone. We enjoyed the view of the City By The Bay from atop Twin Peaks, walked under the Golden Gate Bridge, hit the beach, and finished up on Alcatraz.

Atop Twin Peaks


The beach, City Hall and the Golden Gate Bridge


Heading out to Alacatraz

Lunch with Bing Gordon at Electronic Arts

Bing Gordon, Chief Creative Officer at EA, was gracious in hosting the students for lunch. We spent a little over an hour with him talking about the student projects and getting his insight into what makes games great.

Welcome ETC SV Spring of 2008!

Quickly shot team photos as everyone gets moved in to our cubes at Electronic Arts.

The Animation Team will be creating an animated film about cultural differences. Over the holiday break they recorded dozens of hours of interviews that will be the basis for the soundtrack.


XBOX Project Team. Design of the game starts today.