Trinity offers Masters in video games

MOH

Link

Ri_Nollaig

saw this on rte.ie aswell. looks interesting, will be graduating from cs next year and will have to find something to avoid getting a real job

satchmo

There's a thread about this in programming too.

Kinetic^

Saw it on TV3 at 6 and just now again on RTE. Looks rather interesting tbh. Hopefully we get some feedback from people who start it in October.

the_syco

Supported by Microsoft

Nice, in a way, as it should give access to some of MS's toys, but at the same time, would this limit people's scope, to only using .NET, and not non-MS programming prog's?

Slutmonkey57b

And the course Director is Steve Collins, commodore64 programmer extraordinaire and part owner of Havok. Nive guy too.

RobertFoster

Curse me and my unrelated business degree! *rips up*

barryfitz

Isnt there a similar course in IT Carlow, I remember there was talk of one anyway?

Edit: Sorry I see now that the one in carlow is a BSC course not a masters.

0ubliette

Ri_Nollaig wrote:

saw this on rte.ie aswell. looks interesting, will be graduating from cs next year and will have to find something to avoid getting a real job

Graduating from counter strike and doing a masters in video games??

Ri_Nollaig

0ubliette wrote:

Graduating from counter strike and doing a masters in video games??

counter strike has surprising career opportunities!

... be graduating from computer science next year ...

happy ?

humanji

Is it anything other than a gimmick for trinity and a way of avoiding the real world for students?

thelordofcheese

the_syco wrote:

Nice, in a way, as it should give access to some of MS's toys, but at the same time, would this limit people's scope, to only using .NET, and not non-MS programming prog's?

I'd imagine they'll be trying to push XNA... which is probably a bad idea this early in it's life.

0ubliette

humanji wrote:

Is it anything other than a gimmick for trinity and a way of avoiding the real world for students?

Hey man, students need all the help they can get avoiding the real world, they need more courses like this, if nothing else!

madrab

i just hope that the final projects are good and released to the public for free

Kiith

I'll be finishing my degree in cs (if only it was counter strike...i'd be getting a distinction for sure) this year, so i might look into this. I'd definatly go for another year avoiding any real world responsibility.

TheAlmightyArse

This looks like it might actually be a worthwhile course, since it seems focused on teaching the students to actually sit down and make games. From what I've seen of other games courses, they mostly involve being told what you have to put in a game to make it "good", rather than giving them the tools to experiment for themselves.

Smellyirishman

Slutmonkey57b wrote:

And the course Director is Steve Collins, commodore64 programmer extraordinaire and part owner of Havok. Nive guy too.

There was also a thread posted in TCD a while back... take note of the username.

Cravez

0ubliette wrote:

Graduating from counter strike and doing a masters in video games??

Haha that what i thought he meant/said as well

steviec

humanji wrote:

Is it anything other than a gimmick for trinity and a way of avoiding the real world for students?

I don't think you appreciate how difficult the programming side of computer games is - I guarantee this course will be a lot tougher than 90% of IT Masters. Well, if they do it properly at least.

BopNiblets

humanji wrote:

Is it anything other than a gimmick for trinity and a way of avoiding the real world for students?

The real world is overrated anyway.

Blast my 2.2 result, if this was the kind of masters available earlier I might have worked harder.... maybe.