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For this year’s Advanced Media Entertainment Society (AMES) Video Game Design Super Showcase, student teams across Washington State developed original games based on a shared prompt within a two-month production window. 2026 Prompt: “Everything Has a Cost.” Teams competed at the local level for the right to advance to this Super Showcase event, held MayContinue reading “2026 AMES Video Game Design Super Showcase”

For this year’s Advanced Media Entertainment Society (AMES) Song Showcase, student songwriters from DigiPen, Capital High School, and Lindberg High School developed original songs based on a shared prompt within a focused production window from March 9 to May 7. Thirteen songs were submitted from three schools. 2026 Prompt: “Everything Has a Cost.” The Showcase wasContinue reading “2026 AMES Song Super Showcase”

On May 16, we held the Final Showcase for Animation and Film. Twenty two teams competed across four different divisions, with our first teams ever in Animation (Comprehensive High School). Competition was held at Washington High School in Parkland, hosted by Chris Tumbusch and his film club students. Thanks WHS team! We’ll get competition videosContinue reading “Animation / Film Competition Results”

(Contest 2/2) As part of our continuing mission into branding/etc, we’re renaming our competitions! The formal name will remain AMES <subject> Competition, but like the Academy Awards (aka Oscars), we wanted to have a ‘formal but informal’ name for the awards themselves. “The Oscar goes to…” just sounds better than “The Outstandanding Achievement Award forContinue reading “Naming Contest!”

(Contest 1/2) It’s *BEYOND* time to change the AMES logo (the original was a *FAST* placeholder made in WordArt that was NEVER meant to last this long), and one of our priorities for the ’26-’27 year is updating our branding… but why not start now?! Enter Logo Contest: This contest is open to ANYONE (Students,Continue reading “Logo Contest!”

Hey everyone! I hope you’re all getting a chance to deep dive into “Everything Comes With a Cost” – I’m looking forward to seeing everyone’s projects when we hit completion in May! Some quick FAQs for things that came up last night – this isn’t an “exhaustive” list but definitely wanted to cover a fewContinue reading “Launch Recap / FAQ”

And we’re off! Prompt for the 2026 AMES Season is (drumroll…): Prompt: “Everything Has a Cost” In this challenge, every choice your game makes the player confront will take something away — time, energy, resources, relationships, or even stability. Think about systems where progress always comes with a tradeoff, and where players must constantly weighContinue reading “Prompt Launch 2026!”

For the tenth annual Advanced Media Entertainment Society (AMES) Game Design Competition and Showcase, students were required to make a game that used elements studied this year, from concept to design and implementation. They competed at their local school level, and teams won the right to represent their school and compete at this state-level eventContinue reading “2025 AMES Video Game Design Super Showcase”