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Interactive Games Design Can you combine artistic design skills with highly technical skills
to deveop exceptional graphics animation, sound, and interfaces? Frequently Asked Questions Surely game playing is just for kids? For all intellectual challenge, chess is hard to beat and has fascinated adults for generations. We can certainly create games to help children learn – in Pinball science, the player has to investigate answers from a variety of sources. However, games are also used by adults in business simulations to develop more effective decision- making, project management and financial planning skills. Let’s ask you a question, “Why are supposedly simple puzzles like Tetris and Sudoku so fascinating for all ages?” The interactive Games Design programme will allow you to examine and analyze the life of games, to help you design for the future. What use is playing games? There is good scientific evidence that co- ordination and intellectual skills are developed by video and computer games. In an Australian study, playing video and computer games reduced the pain perception of children undergoing chemotherapy. Testing games involves more than simply ‘playing’, as all possible routes through the code have to be specified and checked. Usability studies with the intended audience are also needed prior to release to ensure all objectives can be met. Will I need to be a great programmer to create games? Such a wide variety of skills is required to create successful games that normally a large team of people is involved. For instance, creative people are required to design the “worlds”, define the characters and the game play together, with technically able people to program the realistic movement of characters and keep track of resources and player scores. For a game to be commercially successful, the business aspects such as marketing and resource allocation to the project must be effective. This degree programme allows options in subjects like these, so you can focus in your areas of strength. Questions of queries about the course? |