Take the Uni of Teeside - History of Games test

48) What exactly was ‘Bleem’?
a) A hand-held pattern matching game using sounds and flashing coloured buttons.
b) An emulation program for the Sega Dreamcast allowing you to play Sony PlayStation
games.
c) A puzzle game involving the solution of a code based on coloured pegs.
d) An attachment for the Nintendo GameBoy allowing it to play mp3 music files.
e) A type of Pokemon.

Bleem was a PC emulator!!! A few crippled versions were ported.
 
Psyk said:
Well I would think a degree is a useful thing to have for a programmer. If not I'm wasting my time :) But I'm hoping to have some decent portfolio work when the time comes aswell.
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Aye, a degree will teach you some useful skills - but nothing you couldn't learn on your own. Put it this way, someone with a kick ass portfolio and no degree would have a better chance than someone with a degree but no portfolio.

These Game Design courses that are popping up now, really are a waste of time. If you want to be a game designer, learn something useful like psychology. It's all about how players think, and psychology teaches you the fundamental reasoning behind why people think the way they do. Well.... in my opinion anyway :p.
 
Indeed, and through reading gamedev forums a lot it seems pretty similar in the USA. That they prefer Comp Sci people to the specialist games schools.
 
Psyk said:
I should have said computing related subjects except games :p
It seems to me that there aren't any decent games courses in England.
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Teesside is actually one of the top computing Universities in the world in regards to games and animation.
iBot said:
lol I knew Teesside sucked but this is just silly.

Game design courses? How can you teach someone to be creative? :/
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Quite simply, you can't. But you can teach them the processes of the industry in Games Production, How Level Design works and how to use 2D and 3D art based applications.

Creativity is what makes people stand out above what is simply taught.
 
NokkonWud said:
Teesside is actually one of the top computing Universities in the world in regards to games and animation.
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It doesn't have skillset accreditation for its games courses though.
 
Nice to see a few other Teesside students around here, I'm actually on the Games Design course, just finished second year.

Yes Games History is a bit of a laugh, but it's not a core module, it's just something to give students a bit of background on the history of games. The exam at the end is really just to make sure people have turned up for lectures during the year.

The core module is 3d modeling, which requires a lot more work. Around this you can study level design and game design, or do the Games Art degree and take drawing modules.
No you can't teach artistic ability or a good sense of design, but you can refine a natural ability.

Is this degree going to get me a job? No, but it does give me the skills to work on my portfolio, which will get me a job if I'm good enough.

For some students there's also a good placement chance, there are four Teesside students that will be going to work for Bizarre this year. Thats surely not a waste of time or money.
 
Psyk said:
It doesn't have skillset accreditation for its games courses though.
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Only because there are no graduates from it's current degree. Things have to constantly be updated so the degree is rarely the same from year to year. Some of those skillset people aren't the smartest tools in the box ;)
 
NokkonWud said:
Teesside is actually one of the top computing Universities in the world in regards to games and animation.
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Thats because there are only about 10~ Uni's in the world that have specialist games courses? :p
 
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