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If you just do a muppet degree, sure.
hows your uni like?
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If you just do a muppet degree, sure.
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Yesterday our pool night was cancelled (lameness), but my mate invited me down to the gaming lab. I was skeptical at first, but we got down there and it was in-****ing-sane! About 30 computers, all with quad core processors, 8800GTS', 4GB of RAM, running Vista Ultimate. Oh and they had Razer peripherals (keyboard and deathadders, and exactmats for 'em all).
I almost orgasmed at the sheer amazingness. Only game they have on there though is UT2K4 so next time I go down I'm taking a USB pen with a couple LAN games.
Any of your uni's have anything like this?
I almost orgasmed at the sheer amazingness. Only game they have on there though is UT2K4 so next time I go down I'm taking a USB pen with a couple LAN games.
Any of your uni's have anything like this?
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i was wondering how is your school (university) like?
It's great, actually. I'm in my 2:nd year of game design studies at the University of Skovde. It's one of the biggest and the better game development programmes in the land (300 - 400 people) with a lot of research going into how people experience games (both pleasure and education/simulation), which is awesome. We get the chance to work on 360 degrees fire-figthing simulations (based on the Source engine actually
), car simulations (with real cars) and stuff like that. We also have facilities to conduct gaming related experiments.
The Uni is mostly built in the 90's so everything is new and neat looking. The students basically have the best houseing in the town (a rather small town), I'm currently living in a new 18 storey house (with a great view) So no complains there!
how does a typical day look like? standard sitting behind the desk listening to some crap?
I had lectures from a guy called Ernest Adams the whole day today. He's a freelance game designer/author who latest work include Stalker. Very interesting to hear what he had to say. I'm currently doing a course called Game Analytics II now... so nothing too fancy to write home about. Most of the courses (like art and stuff like that) take for granted that you do work at home/in school and only gives you a couple of lectures a week.
does your school give you any interesting things to do, like projects, seminars?
Hell yeah. We do a lot of projects, like game development (Make a game in 24 hours, 5 weeks and 10 weeks). The 24 hour one was to develop a mobile game, so all the development and designing had to be done within 20 hours and there were prizes from different companies to the people who won. My game came second last year. We also have projects in animation and 3D. I think projects are the best thing, you learn a whole lot by sitting 8 hours a day constantly working on something
how much does the school support you in self accomplishment?
If they encourage you to do stuff? Sure, our teachers actually play our games and gives us feedback, even the games we havent developed in Uni. My mates and I are currently developing a HL2 mod, and we asked them if we could work with it during the next project and we could! Besides that, they constantly looking to send us everywhere to meet people and show our stuff off. I've been sent to Denmark for a couple of days with friends and teachers to a film festival to show off our game. All expenses payed Getting drunk with teachers is a favorite past time of mine.
does your school help at getting potential jobs?
DICE is using my Uni as a "Focus school" aka they kidnapp people from the Uni and offer them work at DICE. We also have presentations of projects in front of a big crowd and broadcasting it live over the internet for companies to tune in and ask questions. They know where to look for people...
how is the average professor like?
My main teacher was the designer for Battlefield 1942 so it feels like he's an endless source of knowledge. Everyone else is really cool too, like I said earlier; I've taken a beer with a couple of them
do you fell like just a number?
I don't care much about what happens outside of DSU (computer/video game development, what I study), but inside of DSU, it feels like a big family
any complaints?
Not really, I'm really happy!
@dekstar:
We also got a gaming lab. It's a pretty large room with 4 sofas, 13 computers, 3 32" TVs and a 42" HDTV. They got pretty much all consoles from the NES and upwards to the Wii, 360 and PS3. I've also seen a Amiga (with tac-2's of course!) and commodore somewhere in there as well. DDR mats (in metal) and a endless wall of games and peripherals. Not to mention really cheap cola and snacks (selfserved)!
edit: Oh yeah, we also have a 150 computers renderfarm which is open for us to use how we see fit
It's great, actually. I'm in my 2:nd year of game design studies at the University of Skovde. It's one of the biggest and the better game development programmes in the land (300 - 400 people) with a lot of research going into how people experience games (both pleasure and education/simulation), which is awesome. We get the chance to work on 360 degrees fire-figthing simulations (based on the Source engine actually
), car simulations (with real cars) and stuff like that. We also have facilities to conduct gaming related experiments.The Uni is mostly built in the 90's so everything is new and neat looking. The students basically have the best houseing in the town (a rather small town), I'm currently living in a new 18 storey house (with a great view
) So no complains there!how does a typical day look like? standard sitting behind the desk listening to some crap?
I had lectures from a guy called Ernest Adams the whole day today. He's a freelance game designer/author who latest work include Stalker. Very interesting to hear what he had to say. I'm currently doing a course called Game Analytics II now... so nothing too fancy to write home about. Most of the courses (like art and stuff like that) take for granted that you do work at home/in school and only gives you a couple of lectures a week.
does your school give you any interesting things to do, like projects, seminars?
Hell yeah. We do a lot of projects, like game development (Make a game in 24 hours, 5 weeks and 10 weeks). The 24 hour one was to develop a mobile game, so all the development and designing had to be done within 20 hours and there were prizes from different companies to the people who won. My game came second last year
. We also have projects in animation and 3D. I think projects are the best thing, you learn a whole lot by sitting 8 hours a day constantly working on something how much does the school support you in self accomplishment?
If they encourage you to do stuff? Sure, our teachers actually play our games and gives us feedback, even the games we havent developed in Uni. My mates and I are currently developing a HL2 mod, and we asked them if we could work with it during the next project and we could! Besides that, they constantly looking to send us everywhere to meet people and show our stuff off. I've been sent to Denmark for a couple of days with friends and teachers to a film festival to show off our game. All expenses payed
Getting drunk with teachers is a favorite past time of mine.does your school help at getting potential jobs?
DICE is using my Uni as a "Focus school" aka they kidnapp people from the Uni and offer them work at DICE. We also have presentations of projects in front of a big crowd and broadcasting it live over the internet for companies to tune in and ask questions. They know where to look for people...
how is the average professor like?
My main teacher was the designer for Battlefield 1942 so it feels like he's an endless source of knowledge. Everyone else is really cool too, like I said earlier; I've taken a beer with a couple of them
do you fell like just a number?
I don't care much about what happens outside of DSU (computer/video game development, what I study), but inside of DSU, it feels like a big family
any complaints?
Not really, I'm really happy!
@dekstar:
We also got a gaming lab. It's a pretty large room with 4 sofas, 13 computers, 3 32" TVs and a 42" HDTV. They got pretty much all consoles from the NES and upwards to the Wii, 360 and PS3. I've also seen a Amiga (with tac-2's of course!) and commodore somewhere in there as well. DDR mats (in metal) and a endless wall of games and peripherals. Not to mention really cheap cola and snacks (selfserved)!
edit: Oh yeah, we also have a 150 computers renderfarm which is open for us to use how we see fit
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Agreed.
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