Uni questions! [Game design and staffs uni]

Psypher5 · 12 Nov 2006 at 19:25

I want to goto uni next year! Hoorah.. to study computer game design.

Went for an open day at staffs uni yesterday, was really nice and my chosen course looked more interesting than I though. Now, I'd love to goto staff uni, but in reality its a stupidly popular course and the chances of getting in are iffy.

Most other places I looked at require an art portfolio for games design, which I dont have. As the crazy woman lecturer at staffordshire said, artists dont always make the best modellers/level designers and unis are missing out on a lot of potential. So yeah, do any other uni's do a computer games design course (modelling/level design/motion capture) that DOESN'T require an art portfolio?
I really need some other places for a backup uni, as I've only recently decided I want to go and have only found staffs suitable.

Anyway, does anyone here goto staffs and do the course? What is it like? What's the place like?
It looked really good, a next level up to this I-Media course I'm doing atm in coll (character modeeling / level design) and the motion capture with Rare sounded great and the actual uni looked very nice, especially the halls of res.

also, I noticed the course has either choice of BSc or a BEng/MEng, which is better? Or why are there 2 choices? My tutor said a BEng is more "hands on" but they both have the exact same course specifications. Any light?

Psypher5 · 12 Nov 2006 at 19:32

oo! I'll have a look at that, sounds interesting from a quick scan cheers

Psypher5 · 12 Nov 2006 at 19:38

I'm not a programmer

Or so says my a level computing!

Psypher5 · 12 Nov 2006 at 19:42

andy8271 said:
a first for everything and im going to big up teesside

the games design course is apparently **** hot and its chepa as chips to live there

you dong the game course? It needs an art background/portfolio doesnt it?

Psypher5 · 12 Nov 2006 at 19:45

andy8271 said:
nah sorry i dont know

just always hear good things about it

says on webby you do, ahhw ell. Hated their css server anyway

Psypher5 · 12 Nov 2006 at 19:48

I dont want to be a programmer. The course I'm looking at doesnt even touch programming. I find it difficult, it doesnt come naturally, and It's not something I want to do for the rest of my life

Psypher5 · 13 Nov 2006 at 00:23

Got a gf and i generally dislike pub atmospheres and am happy to be a hermit in my room

As for the sotware engineering, tis a no go really. I find programming intersting, but not a career decider. I have much more of in interest in design/modelling, the art side of games.

Really hope i get into staffs, as ill have a portfolio from my I-media course at college, and i should get the grades (iffy, as i find comp sci quite hard)
Talking to pink and it sounds really good.

Psypher5 · 13 Nov 2006 at 00:25

Welshy said:
But what's going to look best at a glance, a "Bsc Games Design" degree, or a "BSc (Honours) Computer Graphics and Visualisation"?

if you go into the right work they wont just glance, they will know what the course entails and such like surely?

Psypher5 · 13 Nov 2006 at 00:40

Ripper^ said:
i go to staffs (internet technology). Live at home and drive there everyday so I don't know what the accomodations like but its a nice uni and I enjoy it there on the most part. Alothough sandwhiches are ridiculously expensive!

3 quid for a baguette for my gf on the open day, i nearly fell over.