HitPoint Studios in Hatfield sees potential for Western Massachusetts as hub for computer gaming industry

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In an office on the second floor of HitPoint Studios, Eric Ciocca fiddles with a batch of numbers on his laptop, while Audrey Condon is using a digital pen to make a pair of digital pants dance on her PC.

Ciocca’s numbers, he explains, are the guts behind “Contract Killer,” an online game where players take on the role of an assassin using a variety of different weaponry.

“It’s all about the sniper rifle,” he says.

And Condon’s dancing pants are actually the lower torso of a character in another game, “Eternity Warriors.” Only the pants are not dancing, but represent movements of
one of the game’s characters during combat.

“I’m just having them recoil and bring them backwards,” she explained as she works.