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Team Introduction

 

Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy

Cohort 17

Capstone Team 1 "Usual Suspects"


Who Are We?

Producers: Jack Martin, Bryce Tynes, Dillon Lynch, Sella Alcazar, Jazmine Perez, Zack Hanitz, Pedro Bautista, and Jack Gombos
Artists: Gianfranco Villanova, Yami Trujillo, Eric McGinnis, Vanna Yang, and Abi Morrison
Programmers: Coleman Levy and Austin Relis
Faculty Advisor: Ron Weaver

About the Team

        Usual Suspects are the graduate student development team behind the turn-based RPG wrestling game based in Hell, and is appropriately titled: Rings of Hell. Our team is one of four Capstone teams within FIEA's Cohort 17 and our team currently consists of 15 graduate student members: 8 producers, 5 artists, and 2 programmers; in addition to our faculty advisor.

About FIEA

    The Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA) is a graduate game design & development program within the University of Central Florida and is located at the Downtown Orlando "Creative Village" campus. As of 2020, FIEA is the #1 nationally-ranked game design & development program, according to an annual analysis and report by The Princeton Review.
    FIEA follows an educational philosophy that focuses on the simulation and real-life practices of a professional video game development environment, and everything from the design of the building & its facilities to the pedagogy and coursework is designed to reinforce this philosophy.
    FIEA encourages team-based work at all times, combining the efforts of students from the school's three primary disciplines: art, production, and programming. FIEA's first semester focuses on the foundational concepts for each of its tracks and sub-tracks in addition to the exposure and experience of rapid-prototype development of various two-week projects by small student teams.
    The second and third semesters at FIEA focus on student-led Capstone Team projects (which is where we are now!) The Capstone cycle comprises of  pre-production, production, and post-production phases of game development. As of the time of this writing in late February, our cohort and our team is currently at the end of the pre-production phase and are on the verge of entering the production phase of our projects, so it is an exciting time at FIEA!

The Road Ahead

    Look forward to our capstone team's Vertical Slice demo & presentation next week on Tuesday, February 23rd 2021, as well as presentations and demos by the other 3 teams in our cohort. Vertical Slices are a major benchmark and milestone with emphasis on demonstrating and showcasing progress across all components of a project, such as: gameplay, art, and UI.
    Since December 2020, our team has been in-the-weeds and hard at work in creating, iterating, and bringing together a shared vision and working prototype for our capstone project. Stay tuned next week for the first public-reveal of Rings of Hell!



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Location: Orlando, FL, USA

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