Game/System Engineering and design courses?

Lucky_13

A representative came to my school from DCU and told us of the courses we could take and what DCU has to offer, I was extremely interested in the college and was told it had the course I was expecting to do, sadly the course has a requirement of a C1 in Higher Level Maths, which I can not posses, So I ask, is their any courses that teach and help to do the following or something similar which can be used to do the following;


-Game/Level design

-Programming

-Hardware Engineering

-Community development

-Maybe even Story Design


My apologies if this seems like an out of place question, thanks for any help given.

Pygmalion

If you can't get a C1 in Higher Maths I wish you good luck learning Programming, Hardware Engineering and the workings of game engines.
Seriously, you'll need it.

Noodleworm

Computer Applications would be the course your looking for. Look into it. It'll give you programming skills you want but will also open up opportunities in other areas outside games. Theres a maths learning center and tons of help for people who struggle with maths.

Very few courses focus on just Games and those that do aren't really well recognised. Its a hard industry to get into and not as glamourous as you imagine. heres a nice little informative video

sob1467

If you have your mind totally set on game designing and you cannot get in due to the higher level maths part. There is a course on Letterkenny institute of technology called computer games development that died not require honours maths. Here is a link http://www.lyit.ie/courses/computing/ly707/

stringy

Lucky_13 wrote: »

A representative came to my school from DCU and told us of the courses we could take and what DCU has to offer, I was extremely interested in the college and was told it had the course I was expecting to do, sadly the course has a requirement of a C1 in Higher Level Maths, which I can not posses,

What course was it you were interested in?

The BSc in Computer Applications would be of interest to you and that does not require higher level maths. It covers things like software engineering and artificial intelligence which are very relevant to gaming. www.dcu.ie/dc121

JoePie

Higher Level maths definitely would've made CA easier, but I got by just fine with pass in the Leaving Cert. Just make the effort with the maths on the course. It's not that bad.

Pygmalion

Pygmalion wrote: »

If you can't get a C1 in Higher Maths I wish you good luck learning Programming, Hardware Engineering and the workings of game engines.
Seriously, you'll need it.

C2 in ordinary level here. Destroyed CA.

JoePie wrote:

Higher Level maths definitely would've made CA easier, but I got by just fine with pass in the Leaving Cert. Just make the effort with the maths on the course. It's not that bad.

CA is largely computer science and software engineering now; most of the business stuff is gone to Enterprise Computing.

JoePie

Surely there is still maths on the CA side though? Like probability, Clancy in first year and that class I remember you guys having that was all about matrices and stuff?

Yeah, that'd come under the CS heading. I just mean there's not really an option any more to balance the hard, mathematical modules with easy, waffley ones.

JoePie

That finely tuned balancing act is the reason that I am the man I am today.