FUTURE CREATIVE: GAMES (INTRO)

Hands-on Creative Media Workshops for Teens!

Got big ambitions? You could get a taste of your dream career at Birmingham City University's Future Creatives workshops for 13-16 year olds!

Course Overview

On this 4-day intensive course students will gain an understanding of practical game design and how to affect user experience within a real time game environment.

The course starts by ensuring the student group has a sound understanding of game principles by explaining and discussing a Game Loop and Game Mechanics. Students then get the opportunity to put into practice what they have learned when they work in teams to make their first game, a turn based board game.

Having demonstrated their understanding of game design students then move onto the final part of the course, a game business simulation where students are organised into simulated business units and they are tasked with making a real time, interactive playable game using Sony PlayStation®3 and Little Big Planet 2.

At the end of the course students present their finished game products to the rest of the group and invited games industry professionals.

Places: 20

Duration: 4 days

Fees:  £200 per delegate

Venue: NTI Birmingham

Dates: 2nd - 5th Apr 2012

BOOK A PLACE ON THE GAMES (INTRO) WORKSHOP @ http://www.bcu.ac.uk/future-creatives