Our Design Team brainstorms each game’s concept, mechanics, and background, incorporating learning objectives and prototyping concepts to test their validity. The LIVE Lab’s Concept Team develops the look and feel, creating a style that effectively conveys the topics while engaging players. The 3D Team, specialized in procedural generation using technical modeling software like SideFX’s Houdini, executes the game’s visual target on a more massive scale. The Engineering Team brings all of the Lab’s work to life, programming and integrating both the mechanics and art assets and performing quality assurance testing. Finally, our Management Team oversees and tracks the progress of all teams and operations, ensuring the quality and integrity of each project.
All LIVE Lab employees/students are paid above minimum wage, receive royalties for any commercialized products they have worked on, and—most important—gain exceptional game development experience and exposure before graduating college.
A varied and impressive output
Over the last four years, our team has worked on developing games to help students better comprehend and appreciate the history of art through the ages. The ARTé suite has expanded to include two new games released this fall by Triseum: ARTé: Lumière and ARTé: Hemut. Further, we helped develop the highly engaging Variant series to help students succeed in calculus.
Diverse projects from external clients come our way too. We’ve researched and developed games to help alleviate stress in birds and make math more accessible and fun for preschoolers. We were even tasked with developing methods to quickly digitize complex industrial setups, such as refineries to help train fire fighters in a safe and interactive way.
Promoting gaming also is core to who we are and what we do. We host the largest student-run game jam in the world, Chillennium, right here in College Station. For 48 hours, students plan, design, and develop video games from scratch, competing for the Best Overall Game Award.
With a skilled and complete production team, the help of subject matter experts, and a passion for game development, the LIVE Lab has managed to create balanced interactive experiences that are both entertaining and educational.
Hadeel Ramadan is a lecturer & LIVE Lab associate director in the Department of Visualization in the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University. She manages 24 students who research, design, and develop games, and she has co-authored several learning games through the LIVE Lab.
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