brian mcdoanld igda scotland presentation
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Presentation for IGDA Scotland - Glasgow meetup held on 23/6/11TRANSCRIPT
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Student Projects vs Game JamsA love letter to Game Jams
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Glasgow Caley Game Courses
•Games Software Development
• Game Programming with Directx
• Mobile Game Development(iOS)
• AI
•Game Design
• Player Centred Game Design
• Psychology of Game Design
• Serious Game Design
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Glasgow Caley Game Courses
•Game Art & Animation
• 3D Visualisation
• Motion Graphics
• Lighting and Rendering for 3D
•We also have a Integrated Project module which runs at level 1-3
•This brings together students from each of the Game Streams to make a game
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Glasgow Caley Labs + Research
VR Lab
eMotion Lab
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Student Projects 1st Year
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh26_8gAyWM
•1st Year Projects•Film or Theatre based game for teenagers•Teams made of designers + programmers•Built using Unity3D•Fixed deadlines, theme, constraints and technologies
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Student Projects 2nd Year
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJVKpHGcqWg
•2nd Year Projects•Platform Games based on the theme of the book Sum: 40 Tales of the afterlife•Teams made of designers + programmers + artists•Built using C# and XNA•Fixed deadlines, theme and technologies
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Student Projects 3rd Year
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iVx_hsuH4w•3rd Year Projects•Games based on the comedy/views of George Carlin & Bill Hicks(last year no theme)•Teams made of designers + programmers+artist•Built using any technology the student wanted(this year we had a mix of Unity3D, Flash, XNA and Directx)•Deadlines made by students, fixed theme no constraints
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Game Jamhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSFLKzPXc6c
•Global Jam is a yearly competition•Where the goal is to make a Game in 48 hours under some sort of constraint•GCU hosted this years event with 16 teams
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Caley Game Jamhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=679fntQO_kU
• Was a week long Jam hosted at GCU• Goal was to engage the students in a Jam like environment• There was 7 teams that took part made up of students of all 4 years(plus one post grad student)
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Formal Assessment vs
Game Jam•Students seem to engage with Jam better
•Less support needed during the Jam
•No fear of failure!
•Can formal assessment learn from Jam ethos?
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Why I love the Game Jam
•Constraints - Time, Theme, etc
•Working with different people
•Interacting with other teams
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List of Game Jams
•http://www.mcfunkypants.com/2010/game-jams-aplenty/
•From 2010 but most of the Jams run every year
•Highlights include
• Global Game Jam - Jan
• Ludum Dare - Aug
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Contact
•scottishcodemonkey.wordpress.com
•Twitter: @BigBearScot
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Links
•globalgamejam.org
•http://www.scottishgamejam.com/
•www.gcu.ac.uk