The Entrepreneurial Game Studio (EGS) at Drexel is a game development studio and publisher focused on developing the next generation of leaders in the game industry. EGS’s mission is to become a factory for game startups, providing a safe and encouraging environment for students to develop and commercialize their games. Within EGS, University students are given access to a supportive work environment to develop their games and strategies as they develop to ship publicly.

Led by Dr. Frank Lee, the EGS is well known for its work in transforming the Cira Centre, a skyscraper in Philadelphia, into the “World’s Largest Architectural Video Game Display” in May 2013. This project involved programming the lighting system of the Cira Centre to make city-sized games of Pong and Tetris. Skyscraper Tetris (2014) garnered Lee national and international media attention, gaining over 2.2 billion media impressions worldwide.

EGS also conducts video game and human computer interaction research, giving a space for PhD’s and Graduate students to push the bounds of gaming and intereaction.