Frank Lee, PhD

A 2014 event featuring a giant game of Tetris played using the facade lights of the 29-story Cira Centre office building, created by Frank Lee, PhD, a professor in Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and founding director of the Entrepreneurial Game Studio in the ExCITe Center, was featured in an April 10 Screen Rant post highlighting interesting facts about the game.

Frank Lee, PhD, a professor in Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and director of the Entrepreneurial Game Studio, was quoted in a June 27 Forbes article about colleges and universities across the country developing esport teams and programs to develop the next generation, who will build and grow the gaming and esports industry.

Drexel's Entrepreneurial Game Studio in the ExCITe Center was featured on the Feb. 20 episode of NBC Sports Philadelphia's "FTW Philly." Frank Lee, PhD, a professor in Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and director of the Entrepreneurial Game Studio, was interviewed along with Chris McCole, a research programer at EGS, and alumnus Thomas Sharpe.

Frank Lee, PhD, a professor in Westphal College and director of the Entrepreneurial Game Studio in the ExCITe Center, was quoted in a Dec. 3 Technically Philly story about a new play, on which Lee consulted, about an aspiring game developer navigating the independent game industry.

A new app from Drexel University’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio and Cleaver Magazine is using augmented reality to spruce up Philadelphia with beautiful writing. Called Story Seek, the application takes users on a virtual tour of the city to places that have inspired or elicit feelings captured through poems and stories, shared in an augmented reality experience throughout the journey.

There’s a lot to talk about right now and social distancing hasn’t made it easy to get it all out. Drexel University Professor Frank Lee, PhD, who is known for visually appealing and nostalgic architectural art installations, is hoping to provide a forum for conversation with some assistance from a seven-story building in Philadelphia.

In hopes of helping more people understand the political, economic and sociological forces that shape urban communities, game designers from Drexel University are turning Philadelphia’s open data into a SimCity-style urban planning game. With support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Open Data initiative, Drexel’s game, called Simulated Interactive Management of the City of Philadelphia (SIM-PHL), will be set in the city’s Mantua neighborhood, an area that is part of a national initiative to support and restore marginalized communities.

The creativity of local students will be on full display this summer as the 29-story LED array of Brandywine Realty Trust’s Cira Centre office building is once again converted into the world’s largest video game display. Students and teachers from K-12 schools across the Greater Philadelphia region have been working with experts in Drexel University’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio to design and code new games for the building — those games will debut on the evening of June 10 as part of a celebration for the opening of the city’s newest green space, Drexel Square. The opening of Drexel Square park marks the first completed project of the Schuylkill Yards development, a 14-acre master-planned neighborhood in University City being developed by Brandywine Realty Trust on land owned by and in coordination with Drexel.