Global Game Jam 2020: How to Make a Game in 48 Hours
The Global Game Jam is the world’s largest international game creation event, where creatives of all stripes are given a theme around which they must try to build a game over a single weekend. This year, three intrepid AXS members stepped up to the challenge: Developers Matthew Ostil and David Tran, and Head of Art […]
How It’s Made: AXS Studio Interactive Holiday Card
Happy 2020! AXS Studio wrapped up the last decade by creating an interactive Holiday Card to celebrate the season. Now that the holidays are over, we’re taking a look back at how the interactive holiday card was brought to life—from ideation to production to adding interactivity.While the term “holiday card” conjures up specific imagery of snowflakes […]
On International Women’s Day, Sonya Amin reflects on 15 years at the helm of AXS Studio
International Women’s Day is a global celebration of women and women’s rights advocacy. We interviewed our fearless and fabulous leader Sonya Amin in order to learn more about her journey as a female entrepreneur, BMC alumnus, and mother. Today is International Women’s Day! You are the “A” in AXS and the sole female co-founder of […]
AXS July Challenge
At AXS Studio, we’re big proponents of “learning by doing”. It’s a principle we strive to bring into the design of all our medical interactive media. So when it comes to our own professional development why would we do anything different? Last year, we created the AXS Challenge Day – an opportunity for our production […]
Visualizing DNA in a virtual reality (VR) science game
A simple image search of ‘DNA’ or ‘DNA structure’ makes it clear that there are myriad ways, both inaccurate and accurate, of representing DNA in science illustrations and medical animations. For a Virtual Reality (VR) science game AXS Studio is developing internally, called Guardians of the Genome, we had the challenge of meeting various requirements […]