Awards & Honors
University of California, Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies receives seed funding from UCSC Foundation
Hellman Fellows Fund A.M. Darke awarded Hellman Fellows Fund
Sin Sol character

micha cárdenas' game Sin Sol wins IndieCade Impact Award

Squinky and Joyce Lin Featured in New York Times DANM Alum Squinky and AGPM Undergrad Joyce Lin featured in New York Times Diversity in Games article
IndieCade Five UC Santa Cruz students present futuristic game at E3 IndieCade Showcase
2018 UC Santa Cruz ranked in top 10 game design schools in the nation by Animation Career Review

UCSC logo

UC Santa Cruz tops the list of institutions doing games research

Princeton Review

UC Santa Cruz ranked among top schools for game design in Princeton Review's 2018 list

Robin Hunicke

Robin Hunicke hosts Game Developers Choice Awards

Robin Hunicke

Robin Hunicke, Director of Games & Playable Media, is co-founder and CEO of Funomena
SceneSampler SceneSampler, a game from UCSC's Social Emotional Technology Lab, is an official game selection at IndieCade Festival
How Games Move Us Katherine Isbister's book, How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design, highlighted in Nature

Phantom Jump

Student game "Phantom Jump" from Game Design Studio course is picked up by Steam

Waypoint video

UC Santa Cruz's Games and Playable Media Graduate Program is featured in a video from Waypoint

Elizabeth Swensen

GPM Professor Elizabeth Swensen named one of "30 under 30" by Forbes Magazine

CtrlShift

Student game, "CtrlShift" named "sleeper hit" of E3 conference by Ars Technica

Sammy Showcase

UC Santa Cruz students show videogames in public showcase

Ulama

Student game Ulama now available on Steam

Princeton Review

UC Santa Cruz ranked among top schools for game design in Princeton Review's 2017 list

How games move us

Katherine Isbister's book, How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design, awarded Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association

Fellows

Computer Science graduate student receives the prestigious Jack Baskin and Peggy Downes-Baskin Fellowship

Katherine Isbister

Katherine Isbister honored by Association for Computing Machinery

Robin Hunicke

Robin Hunicke showcases her work at TEDWomen Experience

IndieCade

UC Santa Cruz student games win awards at the 2016 IndieCade Festival

IndieCade

UC Santa Cruz student games featured at 2016 IndieCade Festival

Female Programmer

Robin Hunicke listed in 10 Female Programmers Who Revolutionized Video Games

Game Jam

UC Santa Cruz team wins game design competition at E3 event

Award

Digital Arts & New Media Graduate Student wins Alumni Association Award at Graduate Research Symposium

Aura

Student game featured during Intel University Games Showcase at 2016 Game Developers Conference
Princeton Review UC Santa Cruz ranked among top schools for game design in Princeton Review's 2016 list

&maybetheywontkillyou

GPM MS alumni's game nominated for IndieCade award

Binary fission

UC Santa Cruz and SRI release new game for DARPA Crowd-Sourced Software Verification Program

GameSage

UC Santa Cruz team introduces new web-based tools for finding videogames

Natives in game dev

UC Santa Cruz hosts Natives in Game Dev Gathering

Princeton Review

UC Santa Cruz ranked among top schools for game design in Princeton Review's 2015 list

Brenda Romero

Director of the Games and Playable Media master's program Brenda Romero honored with Game Developers Choice Award

Speech with Sam

UC Santa Cruz researchers partner with Berkeley, Davis, and Indiegogo to crowdfund speech therapy mobile games

Ice Bound

Grad students' interactive fiction honored at IndieCade Games Festival

CBS

CBS San Francisco reports on the launch of Master's Degree in Video Gaming

Aaron Reed

Grad student's award-winning games use computer technology to explore the possibilities of interactive fiction

Brenda Romero

Program director for the M.S. in games and playable media among top ten game developers of 2013

Indiecade

Brenda Romero's game chosen as Official Selection of IndieCade 2013

SC Sentinel

Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury cover announcement of new Master's Program in Games and Playable Media

Interactive Storytelling

Center for Games and Playable Media sponsors 2013 Interactive Storytelling Symposium

Princeton review

UC Santa Cruz ranked among top 10 graduate schools for game design for 2013

Brenda Romero

Brenda Romero named first game designer in residence at UC Santa Cruz

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Center for Games and Playable Media hosts interactive media workshop
Princeton review UC Santa Cruz ranked among top 10 graduate schools for game design for 2012

Prom Week

"Prom Week," a game created by UC Santa Cruz students and faculty, nominated for a technical excellence award at the Indie Games Festival
iPad game UC Santa Cruz grad turns senior project into game design company

childbirth game

UC Santa Cruz to develop a game to train birth partners and nursing students on childbirth and labor

symposium attendees

Center for Games and Playable Media sponsors first-ever Inventing the Future of Games symposium

game

Game design grad programs make Princeton Review/GamePro top 10

Game Jam

2011 Global Game Jam returns to UC Santa Cruz for third year

Sri Kuriawan

Computer Engineering's Sri Kurniawan receives NSF CAREER Award