Our Facilities

School of Game Design

Facilities

Lab Facilities

Our lab facilities include:

• 237 PC workstations
• 33 Silicon Graphics workstations
• 21 Mac workstations
• 2 Flame and Smoke Suites
• Peripheral devices (Zip 100MB, Zip 250MB, CD burner/DVD burner package)
  Note: 23 workstations have additional DVD-RW
• Flatbed scanners
• Printers:
• • HP B&W laser printers
  • HP Color DesignJet 750C plotter handling paper sizes up to 36" x 24" paper
  • HP Color DeskJet 960C inkjet printer handling paper sizes up to 8.5" x 11" paper

Video Lab

Our video lab offers:

Four NewTek Toaster and Premiere digitizing and I/O stations with VHS decks, and 2 Final Cut Pro Stations with DV and VHS I/O capacity. (One FCP station also features a Beta input jack.)

The Video Lab operates a Green Screen Stage to support courses that show fundamentals in Green Screen techniques. Students may also submit their work to the Video Lab for output to Broadcast Standard Beta SP, capturing the highest resolution for their digital portfolio. Some limited audio sweetening and DVD authoring is also available and is scheduled through the Video Lab.

Classroom PC's

• 141 computers (dual processor workstations) PC (HP)
• 308 - 12 computers (P4 Xeon 2GHz processor)
• 348 - 10 computers (P3 866MHz processor, instructor - P4 Xeon 3GHz processor)
• 349 - 11 computers (P4 Xeon 1.7GHz processor, instructor - P4 Xeon 3GHz processor)
• 350 - 11 computers (Pe4 Xeon 1.7GHz processor, instructor - P4 Xeon 3GHz processor)
• 351 - 10 computers (P4 Xeon 1.7GHz processor, instructor - P4 Xeon 3GHz processor)
• 353 - 2 computers (single P3 866MHz processor)
• 819 - 1 computer (P3 866MHz processor)
• 805 - 21 computers (P3 866MHz processor, instructor - P4 Xeon 3GHz processor)
• 821 - 21 computers (P3 866MHz processor, instructor - P4 Xeon 3GHz processor)

Intro to Computers Classrooms

• 358 - 21 computers (mixed P3 500, 550, 700 MHz processors, instructor - P3 866MHz processor)
• 806 - 21 computers (mixed P3 500, 550, 700 MHz processors, instructor - P3 866MHz processor)

MAC Classroom (400)

• 21 computers
• PC workstations in 2 Lab-93 computers (with CD burners, some of them have DVburners-24)
• 3 scanner workstations
• SGI Octane classroom (352); 10 computers
• SGI O2 in Lab; 21 computers

Student Self-Service Digitize and Playback Area

• Final Cut Pro MAC stations 2
• Toaster PC Station 4

Dubbing Station for Demo Reels

VHS, DV and Beta SP to 5 VHS

Green Screen Studio

• 24' x 35' full cyc on two walls
• 5K, 2K, 650 and 300 Fresnel
• 2K, 1K open face
• 4 bank Kino
• Beta SP Camera and PD150 DV-Cams
• Flags, scrims, Gel frames, green props, etc.
• Video cart with DVD, VHS, G4 with FCP, Video Mixer, and monitors
• Scanners
• 4 PC computers
• Printer/Scanner - 1 SGI (for USAnimation)

Sound Booth

1 computer with Sound Forge

Project Classroom (353)

• Flame/Smoke - 2 Octane with Beta SP output
• 2 HP computers
• 1 Final Cut station; reserved for MFA students

Game Room

• PlayStation 3
• XBox 360
• Wii

Game Classroom (351)

• PlayStation2
• GameCube
• Dreamcast

Software Applications

These are the software applications used in the Game Design department: