NEUMONT COLLEGE STUDENTS LAUNCH MOBILE AND ONLINE GAME APPLICATION FOR UTAH JAZZ

NEUMONT LAUNCHes APP FOR UTAH JAZZ

The time has come to brag about our recent partnership with our local NBA team, the Utah Jazz. During their 2018 season, we paired with the Jazz through our Enterprise Partner program to develop a mobile game application, Splash Uncles, for them to engage fans and utilize in their marketing efforts.

Splash Uncles was conceptualized, created, and executed solely by our senior students, Brendan Cleveland, Dakota Jones, Robyn Nomland, and Scott Phillips, with additional assistance from Trent Castro and Michael Vanderlip. The game was built with Unity using C# as the programming language, along with Photoshop and Maya to create the visual art.

This Enterprise Project is now a featured game on the NBA team’s website and accessible for any fan to download from the app store. Splash Uncles is an interactive game in which the users select a star Jazz player to score baskets, while simultaneously avoiding obstacles and making trick shots. To take your shot at Splash Uncles (pun intended), play here.

This project was led by our Software and Game Development Chair, Raymond Maple. He attributed the success of this project to the self-motivated and professional attitudes of the students and their collective balance of creative and technical skills. Maple elaborated by saying, “I was so impressed with the way our Neumont students were able to take charge of this project and lead it to a successful launch. Their determination to go above and beyond was a testament of the students’ work ethic and passion for development. Our client was impressed and pleased with the final product and with the quality of work that our students provided.”

When asked about working with our college, the Utah Jazz praised the process, results, and Neumont as a whole. "Working with the students from Neumont on the Splash Uncles game was a delight. From concept to final deployment, the students were dedicated to creating something that was not only fun to play, but also connected with Jazz fans in a unique way. The scope of the project was ambitious, and we ran into some technical hurdles along the way—but in the end the students exceeded expectations and delivered an amazing game in a rapid development environment. Working with Neumont College of Computer Science was a great experience."

For more information about our Enterprise Project program, please contact the Office of Corporate Relations at employers@neumont.edu.