DigiPen provides look inside technology and art at open house

Last Saturday, Redmond-based DigiPen welcomed more than 1,200 people from all over state and some from as far away as Vancouver, B.C. and Norway to its first DigiPen Day.

August 31, 2011 2:08 pm
DigiPen student Russell Scott poses as a Jedi from Star Wars while DigiPen Day participants practice their drawing skills. The drawing session was just one of the many events at last Saturday's community event at the DigiPen campus off of Willows Road.
DigiPen student Russell Scott poses as a Jedi from Star Wars while DigiPen Day participants practice their drawing skills. The drawing session was just one of the many events at last Saturday's community event at the DigiPen campus off of Willows Road.

Last Saturday, Redmond-based DigiPen Institute of Technology welcomed more than 1,200 people from all over state and some from as far away as Vancouver, B.C. and Norway to its first DigiPen Day.

The event commemorated the new campus’ ribbon-cutting ceremony that DigiPen held last year when Redmond Mayor John Marchione declared August 27 as “DigiPen Day.”

Guests were invited to see the campus and participate in a myriad of activities that included mini-workshops on game design, game programming, and animation; a bouncy house and inflatable obstacle course; putt-putt golf; a live drawing session with a model dressed as a Jedi; a barbecue lunch with hamburgers, hot dogs, desserts, cotton candy, popcorn, and kabobs, prepared by DigiPen president and founder, Claude Comair; remote-controlled race cars; a student-designed and developed game for Microsoft’s Kinect; 15 new student games, which were also featured at PAX; and some video game character bingo.