{"id":1515,"date":"2013-04-16T18:19:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T22:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/04\/16\/game-changer\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:54:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:54:29","slug":"game-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/game-changer\/","title":{"rendered":"Game changer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Greenstein likes to play games, and that\u2019s a good thing since gaming has been his business since high school. Seth and two of his high school buddies began Diamond Bullet Studios, a video game design and production company that has released three video games.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s latest release, <em>Catalyst 2012<\/em>, was created in collaboration with FIRST, an international nonprofit organization that promotes science, technology, and engineering by sponsoring high school robotics competitions. <em>Catalyst<\/em> simulates the robot opponents on the playing \u201cfield,\u201d allowing students to plan and refine their robots even before building them.<\/p>\n<p>Working with Furman Health Sciences professor Randy Hutchinson in Furman\u2019s Molnar Lab, Seth is recording human movements to make the game\u2019s human characters\u2014robot drivers, spectators, and teams\u2014more lifelike.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Seth Greenstein is a computer science major from Clemson, South Carolina. His business partners are <\/em><em>Curtis Todd, Eric Bickle Jr., and Chris Zeigler. For more on the FIRST Robotics Competition, visit<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usfirst.org\/\"><em> http:\/\/www.usfirst.org\/<\/em><em><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Greenstein likes to play games, and that\u2019s a good thing since gaming has been his business since high school. Seth and two of his high school buddies began Diamond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,34,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-administrative","category-admission","category-computer-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}