Parsons School of Design Partners with Atari for Retro Redux Video Game

Parsons School of Design Partners with Atari for Retro Redux Video Game
On April 2-3, Parsons School of Design, a division of New School University, will present its first 24-hour game design event, "Retro Redux", in collaboration with Atari, Inc.

Teams of students from New York area colleges and universities will compete to see if they have what it takes to design a game that withstands the test of time based on the original Atari 2600 technology, which gave rise to such classic games as Asteroids, Missile Command, Pong and Centipede.

The resulting games will be judged in the categories of top overall game, most innovative game design, best sound, and best visuals, with the top overall game to be featured in the an upcoming version of the Atari Flashback Game Console.

Awards will be presented at a ceremony to be held on Monday, April 4 at 5 p.m. at the Theresa Lang Student Center, 55 West 13th Street, New York.

"Retro Redux provides students with the opportunity to test their creativity and design skills by re-inventing classic games from the birth of the video game era," said Katie Salen, the director of the MFA Design and Technology Program at Parsons and a professional game designer.

"By bringing together students from the leading university game design programs in the New York area, Parsons will showcase the tremendous talent to be found in the region."