Computer Games

Game Boys (and Girls): Video game design and development concentration added for computer science bachelor's degree.

This year signifies 50 years of computing at UL and CACS 25th anniversary. To honor these milestones we will be celebrating our achievements and accomplishments with our friends, supporters, and alumni on Oct. 30th.

Virtual Advantage: High-tech tools link university, military training centers.
It looks like a war zone in the University of Louisiana's Abdalla Hall. Actually, special 3-D glasses are needed to see the battle because it’s a virtual war zone.

UL has quite a few large initiatives that rely on cartooning: LITE, computer animation, video games, the Film Studies program, a volume reprinting the Bec Doux comics coming from the Center for Louisiana Studies, the research of Fabrice Leroy in Modern Languages, and efforts from local government to land a film production company in Lafayette. From all of these, cartooning is becoming a critical industry. We spoke recently with UL alum Kody Chamberlain, a local cartoonist who has been successful selling his work and concepts to both film and the graphic novel.

Educational games are one facet of a multiple threat UL is assembling: computer gaming, film, animation, and 3D/4D supercomputing & visualization. ultoday.com interviews the scholars who head UL's Center for Innovative Learning and Assessment Technology, where many innovative educational games are created.