{"id":31671,"date":"2026-06-17T11:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31671"},"modified":"2026-06-17T11:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:37:08","slug":"bvis-student-justine-arizabal-earns-two-awards-at-uic-unreal-fest-game-jam","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/bvis-student-justine-arizabal-earns-two-awards-at-uic-unreal-fest-game-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"BVIS student Justine Arizabal earns two awards at UIC Unreal Fest Game Jam"},"template":"","news_categories":[26,22,15,24,11],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-31671","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-bvis","news_categories-extracurricular-engagement","news_categories-honors-and-recognition","news_categories-kudos","news_categories-student-news"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","hide_subtitle":false,"intro_text_body":"<p>2<sup>nd<\/sup> year Biomedical Visualization (BVIS) student Justine Arizabal recently participated in the inaugural University of Illinois Chicago Unreal Fest Game Jam, where teams learned Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) and developed a game in less than two and a half days.<\/p>\n<p>Justine and her teammates, Mit Patel and Avery Chang, developed a game inspired by the theme <em>&#8220;City in a Garden.&#8221;<\/em> Their project earned 1st Place for Use of Theme and 1st Place Community Choice!<\/p>\n<p>This accomplishment highlights the creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving skills fostered through biomedical visualization training. It also demonstrates the exciting ways BVIS students can apply visual communication, storytelling, and emerging technologies across a wide range of disciplines and media.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees of Unreal Fest Chicago can view Justine&#8217;s award-winning project, along with other Game Jam entries, at the Game Jam Showcase on Thursday, June 18, from 4:00\u20136:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Justine, on this outstanding accomplishment!!<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"","content_author":"Leah Lebowicz","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"news_include_thumbnail":false,"components":false,"SEO_meta_description":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31673,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31671\/revisions\/31673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=31671"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=31671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}