WABI covers exhibit of games created by computer science students
WABI (Channel 5) reported on exhibitions held by computer science students at the University of Maine to showcase original video games. Students from COS 125 and COS 312 demonstrated the games they built throughout the semester and competed for a cash prize. “The idea of the demo here is to get other people to play their game so that they can get some feedback as to what’s wrong with it,” said James Fastook, a computer science professor at UMaine. “I probably spend some of the most time out of any class on this class’ homework, and it’s not because I have to, it’s because I really want to and that’s what makes it so much fun,” said Zechariah Palmeter, a mechanical engineering major who designed a game for virtual reality headsets. Palmeter said he would like to find a merge between video game design and mechanical engineering. “I think there’s a lot of cool places to do this potentially in a physics engine,” he said.