FIEA student game Long Arm Of the Law won second place Thursday in the Best Visual Quality and Best Gameplay categories at the 2019 Intel University Games Showcase in San Francisco. It is the third straight year that a game from UCF’s Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy has placed in two different categories.
As a result, Intel will donate $10,000 worth of equipment to UCF’s graduate game-design program.
The showcase featured student games from 14 of the best game-design schools from around the world, which competed in three award categories, Most Innovative and the two awards won by UCF.
Recent graduates Jake Khosrowzadeh ’16 ’18MS and Erian Vazquez ’18MS led a five-minute game demo of their game, in which the player competes as Motor Rockwell, a robot sheriff with an extendable arm who grapples, pole-vaults and slings his way through a treacherous mining town.
After the presentation, game industry judges asked questions of the team in front 300 attendees. A team of 17 students completed the game in seven months as part of their master’s thesis at FIEA.
This is the sixth year Intel has put on the showcase, which coincides with the Game Developers Conference, the largest conference in the world for video-game developers.
Long Arm of the Law is available to play for free on Steam.
