At UC San Diego Engineering Library, a New “Greeter”
Norman Oder -- Library Journal, 1/16/2009
- Time-traveler suit based on video game now in library
- Alumni say UCSD inspired career in video games
- Library head enthused
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(This first appeared in the January 15 edition of the LJ Academic Newswire.)
Thanks to alumni of the University of California San Diego (UCSD) who’ve become prominent videogame developers, the UCSD’s Science & Engineering Library now has a new “greeter”: a time traveler suit, with g
reen and silver body armor. The the nearly six-foot tall Chameleon JumpSuit comes from the popular Journeyman Project's “Legacy of Time” computer video game.
The donors were Michel Kripalani (pictured), Greg Uhler, and Farshid Almassizadeh, who founded Presto Studios, developer of the Journeyman Project and other computer games, in 1991. Kripalani, Presto’s CEO/president, said, “This is our way of giving something back to UC San Diego, as a way to thank the university for helping us develop the skills that we needed to launch and run a successful, independent video game studio. We hope that students visiting the UCSD Science & Engineering Library will be inspired by the suit.”
“Legacy of Time,” published Red Orb Entertainment in 1998, was one of the first computer games to be developed for the DVD-ROM, according to UCSD. “It’s great to have our very own video action figure,” said Brian E. C. Schottlaender, the Audrey Geisel University Librarian. The Science & Engineering Library is located in the East Wing of the Geisel Library Building.
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