In a typical year, the Conference IQP organizes WPI’s booth presence at the PAX East gaming convention and provides students with experience showcasing their game development work to the public. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting need to minimize close contact with one another, the focus was shifted towards planning and running the WPI IMGD program’s two major game showcase events, AlphaFest and ShowFest. Both of these events had to be thoroughly redesigned in order to run smoothly in an online setting. As part of this planning, our team devised methods to run virtual events over Discord, curated student submissions to the event, and gathered feedback from running AlphaFest to make ShowFest better. This paper describes the goals, procedures, and results of our project, and provides a potential framework for running virtual events of this nature in the future.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Endo, Mariko Y.
• Marcus, Tyler B.
• Johannesen, Matthew D.
• Baldwin, Charles G.

Subject

• Industry
• Computing
• Innovation
• Learning
• Project-Based Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-051421-185923
• 24631

Keyword

• ShowFest
• PAX
• BostonFIG
• Conference
• Alpha Fest
• Playtesting

Advisor

• O'Donnell, Dean Michael

Year

• 2021

Date created

• 2021-05-14

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-08-29