Mentioning Shakespeare’s Birnam Wood might conjure up images of castles, witches and unexpected outcomes, but for one Burlington woman it is symbolic of her technology-based future.
Marguerite Dibble not only sees the forest for the trees, she is paving the way for others to discover its mystery through video gaming.
Birnam Wood is the name of the forest in “Macbeth,” Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy and also the name of Champlain College student Dibble’s new Burlington-based game developing studio. She’s set to launch her company’s first video game, Loc, on April 4.
Loc is a 3D puzzle game in which the player is a prisoner of the Queen of the Faeries . The goal is to escape her kingdom by solving a series of Rubik’s Cube-like puzzles.
Dibble is riding the entrepreneurial wave in her industry. While it’s no secret women play video games now more than ever before, she is further breaking with tradition by heading up her own game studio. It’s all a sign of the times, a natural chain of events, she said.
It’s an exiting time to be in the industry, she said. “It has been a burgeoning media form, and I thought it would be great to learn about it, and it really worked out,” she said.
Dibble, 22, will graduate from Champlain College next month. She hopes Birnam Wood Games will be an unsuspected force, like the soldiers who emerged from the literary Birnam Wood. She has begun to create games that capture a sense of wonder and exploration, much like the classic stories she grew up with.
The Champlain College Game Development cohort from which she is graduating relies on a team-based structure, modeled on real industry studios. The Princeton Review named Champlain College among the top 10 undergraduate schools for video game design last year. Since Champlain College implemented the program in 2004, the numbers of women enrolling in the program have increased steadily each year. There are four game majors offered, media management, game art and animation, game design and game programming.
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