Emily Rocks the Hackathon

Grad student Emily Sumner traveled to the Games for Change Festival in NYC and participated in their first annual Virtual Reality Brainjam Hackathon. Emily teamed with programmers and artists and in 48 hours created a game called "Shima", a virtual reality measure of risk propensity. In this game, you are a photographer on an island inhabited by new species of animals. Your goal is to get as close as you can to each animal and take their picture. The closer you get, the more points you get. But if you get too close, the animal gets scared and runs away. Emily's team WON the hackathon and got to present their game at the Games for Change Festival.  Here is a link to a video of their game, and below is a picture of Emily (at the mic) and her team presenting their game on the huge festival stage. Congratulations, Emily!