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Bob Rig


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    Digital Preservation: Promo and News 2024

    Summer of 2024 is off to a great start. I have teamed up with architect and art historian Dr Alissa De Wit-Paul to put the second step of my preservation process to the test. Together, we have garnered support from the Genesee Country Village and Museum to provide us access to their historic Campbell House.…

  • The SHED Game Walkthrough

    A short video of the first draft. This was the export that was play-tested by students of the Museum Sciences program (MUSE360), thanks to the support of Dr. Samaya Nasr at RIT. Here, we learned that the students struggled with the speed of the navigation tools and wished they had the option to fly. From…

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    Frank J Romano Endowed Prize

    Exciting news continues! I won the Frank J Romano Endowed Prize for innovative use of technology working with students. The Digital Preservation Process has evolved into the Digital Interactive Preservation method, or DIP method. Two reasons for this: one, because the RIT CHIP Research group, led by Dr Juilee Decker and Dr David Messinger has…

  • Processing the SHED @ RIT

    The special topics course was a success! Not only did my four students get highly involved in refining the process, but we were able to successfully export a few different samples of the game, ready to play and with a secondary level to show a few additional details preserved during our research. From our tests,…

  • The Shed Game @ the Genesee Country Village and Museum: A Quick Summary

    This is the shortest possible update of the pilot DIP process. A module of the super-epic Lahore Fort Project is the method I have suggested to use game creation workflows to digitally preserve buildings and sites. In October of 2022, I, and a team of animation students were given the opportunity to put this theory…

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    GDC and Beyond!

    What it felt like to come out of my COVID-isolation cave to speak at the biggest Game Conference in the world!