Limbless

A bit of footage from one of the first year team project games.

Computer Games Programming – a student perspective

Just to correct Dom, I didn’t study CGP… but I did study here

Underwood by Acorn Games

One of the end results from our final year team project module…

End of the year…

There haven’t been many updates during the year but that’s about to change… as we near the end of the academic year lots of interesting work is going to be coming in that I’ll be showcasing. Keep checking back over the next couple of months! In fact, hold on one second…

Teaching starts next week…

Freshers week is almost over, so some links to get you started…

Timetable: either at unitimetable.hud.ac.uk or through the portal when you login (look under My Studies) and the assessment timetable can be viewed at scenmod.hud.ac.uk

Student Support: either email sce.student.support@hud.ac.uk, phone 01484472450 or visit the office in CW1/01.

Student Services: Counselling, finance, wellbeing, health, disability, level 4 of the student centre (in the library) or visit their webpages

Regulations: We have a lot… www.hud.ac.uk/regs

Student Union: their website is www.huddersfield.su

Unilearn: can be found at unilearn.hud.ac.uk

Another new year…

Well, the 2012/2013 academic year is upon us! Freshers week starts next year so I thought I’d put together some useful information. Some of it for the newbs (not noobs!) and some for those are already here but didn’t yet know about it…

Induction week (a.k.a freshers week)

1st years come in at 12:15 on the Monday, and head for CWS/10. See this map of campus if you don’t know where canalside west is. This is a final plan for the week… DM Induction Timetable 12-13

Returning 1st years (e.g if you suspended last year) (DM Year 1 Repeating Students 12-13), returning 2nd years (DM Returning Students 12-13), come in 10am, Wednesday 19th.

Returning from placement, come in at 12:15 on Wednesday 19th (DM Returning Students 12-13)

Final years (inc. those who’ve been on placement), come in 14:15 on Wednesday 19th. (DM Returning Students 12-13)

You might want to check out the Student Union to see what they are doing during the week… http://www.huddersfield.su/

If you get lost look out for the student helpers, they’re usually in orange tee shirts. Also, you could email me (duke@hud.ac.uk), I have push email so I should be able to get it and reply very quickly.

Timetables

Seem to be settling down now, you can probably find yours, or at least look for it, at http://unitimetable.hud.ac.uk/default.aspx - be aware though that changes are still happening, mine changed again yesterday! Please be patient with it, it will be settled by next week.

 

Katu Toka now available for purchase

Canalside Studios (our in house studio) have released their latest title, Katu Toka for iOS and Android…

Take back the island!

Lapsus now available for purchase!

Canalside Studios (Our in house studio) have released their latest title, Lapsus. It’s available on iOS and Android!

Inspired by the joy of the domino effect, Lapsus is a mind-busting puzzle game that is sure to keep you hooked for hours!
100 puzzles that gradually increase in difficulty over five worlds, each with their own theme and special domino!
The rules are simple, knock down every domino in the level to complete it. Simply drag dominoes around, positioning them in such a way that when one is pushed, all others will be knocked down. If even a single domino is left standing, the puzzle must be retried.
Lapsus is designed to be a fun, relaxing puzzle game that can be played on the go, or for a longer period of time.

•Five diverse dominoes, each possessing a key ability!

•Multiple ways to solve a puzzle, but can you discover one that will give you a maximum star rating? Even simple puzzles can become difficult if you’re looking at them wrong; try taking a different approach.

•Smartly implemented level skip feature that allows limited bypasses of challenging levels.

•Intuitive controls, anyone can pick up and play!

•Soothe into the world of Lapsus with subtle, gentle audio that helps the player stay relaxed and focused.

Ash UDK Level

2nd year UDK work from Ash

Student Showcase – Jay Walton

Another programming showcase.

This time Jay Walton. Jay was placed in Canalside Studios in his placement year and worked on Missing Reel (see here) and after working on some clever shaders for iPhone in his final year was employed by Rockstar Leeds.

It’s all in the one video…

… but shows work:

• Year 1
  • The Dragon Knight – a DarkBasic game.
• Placement year
  • Impossible Tusk – X48 2010 Winner of Best Art (See post)
  • Perlmania – a game developed for XBLIG and released! (See launch)
  • Seavolution – X48 2009 overall Winner! (see post)
  • Stargazer – an Xbox title that was soooo close to being finished
• Final year
  • All Out War – Final year team project – note cool use of WiiMote to loop and control groups of units in an RTS environment!
  • Terrain generation/painting/tweaking
  • iPhone shaders