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Student-Developed Game Makes Way to Xbox Live Marketplace

By pete_gallagher

Created by a dozen Cal State San Bernardino students, Vector Force is now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace.

The arcade-styled shooter took two years to create and involved over a dozen students in all, who worked on the project under the tutelage of Professors Art Concepcion and David Turner. Student Mark Chapman took on the role of the game's designer.

Concepcion likened the game to 'a stamp of legitimacy of our computer systems game development program."

He added:

If students are allowed to choose the project and be involved in the design and decision of what the project will do, they will rise to the challenge of hard work.

Vector Force can be purchased for 80 Microsoft points. A demo is also available.

Cal State San Bernardino students are already at work on their next task, a videogame called Mythic that is being developed in conjunction with students and faculty from Rim of the World High School and Riverside Community College. A $300,000 National Science Foundation grant is funding the new project.

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on January 12, 2010 (boomark / email).