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Career Advice: Applying for more internships

Matthew Maravilla • April 17, 2015

It’s been a few weeks since the career fair. Have you secured a job or internship yet? If not, please allow me to share some of the techniques I have been using to help me secure positions. Unfortunately,...

Career Advice: Applying for more internships

Matthew Maravilla • April 9, 2015

Career Advice: Applying for more internships By Matthew Maravilla It’s been a few weeks since the career fair. Have you secured a job or internship yet? If not, please allow me to share some of the...

SHPE and NSBE Resume Building Workshop

Matthew Maravilla • March 10, 2015

With the Spring 2015 Career Fair coming to a close, now is the time when companies start picking and choosing candidates. So, I think a lot of you might want to get your resume checked. Hear me out. I’m...

Game Thing: The 2015 Game Developers Conference award show

Matthew Maravilla • March 10, 2015

“This year was definitely a different kind of year” A year ago, I wrote a piece where I talked about how I sat in my dorm room, alone, and with a heavy heart watched the Independent Games Festival...

Indie Game Freebies: Weird Games

Matthew Maravilla • February 24, 2015

Matthew Maravilla Last week I wrote about sexy and romantic games, and I want to continue Indie Game Freebies with some weird games I found on the Internet! While these games are great for a laugh or...

In Memory of an Artist, Monty Oum

Matthew Maravilla • February 10, 2015

For a good number of people who watch a lot of Let’s Play videos or video game entertainment like Rooster Teeth, this might come to a lot of you as a shock. Already, people have expressed their grief...

Indie Game Thing: Love and Sex

Matthew Maravilla • February 10, 2015

*NOTE* Games discussed in this article aren’t pornographic in nature, yet contain mature topics such as sex and sensual romance. It’s almost Valentine’s Day and I bet you’re all wondering what...

Global Game Jam 2015

Matthew Maravilla • February 8, 2015

By Matthew Maravilla As you may have seen on the front page of NJIT’s website, it’s that time of the year again, when a bunch of game developers huddle in Weston Hall to spend 48 hours making games! Students...

Student Game Dev Spotlight: Starfall Studios and Sneaky Ninja

Matthew Maravilla • February 8, 2015

By Matthew Maravilla You’ll be amazed at the talent NJIT’s game development program has to offer. Most of you may not know this, but while our many athletes were doing amazing things, when we were...

Staff Opinion: NJIT Pride – Like a domino in a Rube Goldberg Machine

Matthew Maravilla • January 29, 2015

I am your average NJIT student. I don’t party, drink, or attend any athletic events on campus. I’m like a basement dweller stuck in front of a computer screen trying to finish a bunch of endless projects...

NJIT Events: Games as Culture with Jamin Warren

Matthew Maravilla • November 20, 2014

Thinking. Acting. Object-ing. Thanks to the school of Art and Design, as well as to the game design professors of NJIT who were gracious enough to tell their students about last Monday’s talk in Weston...

Indie Game Thing: Planetary Annihilation

Matthew Maravilla • November 20, 2014

When Childhoods die Here’s a little history lesson: back in 1997, about a year before Starcraft came out, Total Annihilation was released, much to the delight of strategy game fans. With the ability...