BA Hons Games Design for Industry

BA Honours Games Design for Industry.mp4

Welcome to this celebration of work for the BA (Hons) Games Design for Industry programme.

This 1 year top up, is full time, innovative and exciting new games programme that has been designed to allow students from the HND or foundation degree (and others where appropriate) to progress to an honours degree to develop an independent, autonomous practice, but with skills and attributes to be part of any team within any typical games design studio. This programme aims to facilitate and equip graduates with the expertise, enthusiasm and flexibility for a future in developing games and their content. Students gain a comprehensive understanding of Agile, entrepreneurship, team management and the techniques and skills needed by the games industry to get you that dream job, or to start your own independent games company. Students use industry standard hardware and software such as Autodesk suite, Adobe Cloud, Unreal Engine and a variety of VR headsets such as HTC Vive and Oculus Rifts. They also have access to excellent audio-visual equipment. The video includes a comprehensive breakdown of the modules with examples of student work produced for them.

For further information please contact: Course Manager, Stephen Howard

E: stephen.howard@cornwall.ac.uk

E: enquiries@cornwall.ac.uk

W: BA (Hons) Games Design for Industry | Cornwall College Camborne

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Gamedesign4Industry

History of.mp4

A brief history of the BA (Hons) Games Design for Industry programme.

The BA course has been extremely successful since it began in 2016. Students have worked with many clients such as TKUK, who produced Star Wars Storm trooper outfits for the likes of Boogie Storm who appeared Britain's Got Talent. They have also created games and Virtual Reality experiences for the colleges Military Academy and the Army, as well as pitched games to Sony and Goldfinch Entertainment. The video includes some of the client feedback we have received, along with them trying out the artefacts. It also includes testimonials from a graduate who now works at AntiMatter Games along with statistics from the course. Two students have also won Cornwall College student of the year. The course continues to be linked to industry and the students can look forward to many interesting assignments in the future.

Game Worlds, Innovation and Production

This module allowed students to experiment with both hardware and software, in a chosen area of games development, to produce innovative outcomes that develop both the appearance of the game/s and the personality of the content. Team production of prototypes was explored, as well as a variety of methods to improve immersion, narrative and visual impact. Students were supported and encouraged to investigate design innovations such as virtual reality, to develop new methods of enhancing gameplay.

Team Craig Breen Hogg, Jordan Matthews, Ronin Murton, Warwick Tregoning

_High Concept Doccument.docx

High Pitch document by Jordan Matthews

GDD.docx

Games Design Document by Jordan Matthews

Mood boards

Concepts by Warwick Tregoning

Texture tests in Substance Painter by Ronin Murton

Texture tests in Substance Painter by Craig Breen Hogg

Final Prototype

Final prototype captured footage

VR test of prototype

Team Luke Matthews, Aarron Taylor, Jacques Stephan, Kyle Tapp

High Concept Pitch….docx

High Pitch document by Luke Matthews

GDD.docx

GDD by Luke Matthews, Kyle Tapp, Aarron Taylor, Jacques Stephan

Mood boards

Concepts

Character model sheet by Luke Matthews

3D Modelling and Texturing by Aarron Taylor

3D Modelling and Texturing by Kyle Tapp

Character animations by Jacques Stephan

Creature walk

Golem attack

Mech walk

Final Prototype

Honours Team Project 1

This module enables students to draw upon specialist and supporting studies to create a coherent integrated major team project. Each student is expected to display analytical and creative skills that demonstrate a level of independent learning, appropriate to level 6 project work. The module also provides students with opportunities to develop their problem solving and communication skills working both individually and as part of an Agile team. They negotiate and agree a project proposal with their assigned tutor. A product leader is chosen and roles within the team are delegated according to relevant career specialism. Individuals carry out intensive research relevant to the framework and concept of their game. Teams formulate and manage their ideas constructing prototypes before finalising the project proposal and game documentation.

Team Forbidden Peninsula: Jordan Matthews (Product Manager), Aarron Taylor, Craig Breen Hogg, Jacques Stephan, Jordan Matthews, Kyle Tapp, Luke Matthews, Ronin Murton, Warwick Tregoning

Games Documentation for Project Forbidden Peninsula

Copy of Games Design Doccument

Games Design Document by Jordan Matthews

Copy of High Pitch Doccument

High Pitch Document by Jordan Matthews

Copy of Pitch/Presetation

Presentation slides for pitch

Concept work by Warwick Tregoning

Concept work by Jordan Matthews

Concept work by Luke Matthews

Animation tests

Early character anims tests by Ronin Murton

Early fluid dynamics tests by Ronin Murton

Fisherman attack by Jacques Stephan

Fisherman chase by Jacques Stephan

Fisherman idle by Jacques Stephan

Fisherman walk by Jacques Stephan

Environment materials tests by Aarron Taylor

3D modelling and texturing

Craig Breen Hogg

3D modelling using 3D Max, Maya and Blender. Texturing with Substance painter.

Level design and early Blueprinting by Kyle Tapp

Sprint footage 1

Sprint footage 2

Overview and quest system

Honours Team Project 2

For this module students created a large scale game clearly related to, and expanding upon, the games design documents and prototypes they have already created for Honours Team Project 1. Students draw upon the specialist knowledge and skills found within their creative teams, to complete the design process, from concept to final implementation and testing. Students will review their efforts, reflecting on the production stages of the game and compare their finished artefact to the specifications of their original games design document.

Team Forbidden Peninsula: Jordan Matthews (Product Manager), Aarron Taylor, Craig Breen Hogg, Jacques Stephan, Jordan Matthews, Kyle Tapp, Luke Matthews, Ronin Murton, Warwick Tregoning

Concept work by Warwick Tregoning

3D modelling and texturing

Aarron Taylor

Ronin Murton

Luke Matthews

Warwick Tregoning

Craig Breen Hogg

Character animations by Ronin Murton

Kick Starter Pitch

Commercial Games Practice & Enterprise

In this module students explored industry hardware and software techniques, carried out in depth research and consolidate their knowledge and understanding of the enterprise and employment context of the digital games industry. Each student received career and business advice specifically tailored to their individual aspirations. As part of the module students work on real client based briefs and this year it was introduced by Dr Stephen Green.

Prior to joining Cornwall College in 2015 Dr Stephen Green was running the Operation Wallacea terrestrial research programme in Honduras. His students at Newquay learn about Cusuco National Park as a case study in a number of modules as well as having the opportunity to join their international field trip to Honduras, which they run during the summer. They also have Research Masters students working on snake community ecology and the conservation genetics of pit vipers. They train volunteers to collect data in the field, and game the BA students have created provides a fantastic teaching tool for integration into these courses. Hopefully it is also something that Operation Wallacea may be very interested in and, if so, could be shared with/marketed to schools, colleges and universities all over the world.

Ultimately, this project is a fantastic example, which demonstrates not only the strengths of each of individual departments within the college, but also of what we can achieve through this type of interdisciplinary collaboration.

Team: Jordan Matthews (Product Manager), Aarron Taylor, Craig Breen Hogg, Jacques Stephan, Jordan Matthews, Kyle Tapp, Luke Matthews, Ronin Murton, Warwick Tregoningll