News and Events

October 2009

• Visit by GameIT College Denmark - game design workshops >>

July 2009

• THE BIG WOOLWICH TXT GAME 25th July 2009: Greenwich Heritage Centre, Woolwich Arsenal
  Murder or misadventure? Be a time-travelling detective and contact the spirit world using your mobile phone. You have 1 day to solve the mysteries of 3 unexplained deaths at Woolwich Arsenal...
  Public Event: Part of London 2012 Open Weekend.
  
  

June 2009

• DIGI-MET 2009 Games and New Media Summer Show
  The Graduate Centre, Holloway Road
  Launch Party 3rd June 5-9pm
  Open to public 4th/5th June 10-4pm

April 2009

• Visit from GameIT College, Denmark
  
  
• Guest Lecture: Judi Spiers (ex-THQ, ex-ACQA) on Game Design and Digital Media
  
  
• mEGG-a Bunny-Blasting Spring-Launching LAN Party on 3rd April, T701/2 from 1pm
  Bring your XBox and plug in or just turn up and join the fun.
  
  
• Guest Lecture: Alex Whittaker from Beautiful Game Studio, Eidos
  Thurs 2nd April, T8-03

March 2009

• X48 Game Camp 2009
  Jason Choo and Kamran Sarkar represent Londonmet at University of Derby X48 Game Camp and win a crate of energy! Screenshots from their XBox game EVO below:
  
  
  

January 2009

• Global Game Jam LONDON 2009 - 30 Jan to 1 Feb 2009
  48 hours of Innovation, Creativity and Experimentation at Shoreditch Building, Kingsland Road.
  
  
  
  Media links here

December 2008

• **Winter-een-mas super mega happy fun time!** (or Christmas LAN Party)
  at Shoreditch Building - 14 Dec 08
  
  More photos here
  
  
• Microsoft Inspiration Tour - GC108 / T220 - 15 Dec 08 - book here

October 2008

• Grl Gmrs Tournament at The Rocket, Holloway Road, Saturday 25th October
  Part of London Games Fringe
  Sponsored by London Games Festival and Gamelab London.
  
  
  
  See more photos here
  And press coverage - Islington Tribune / BBC London / Dollymix / Games Fringe
  
  

September 2008

• Londonmet Computing Show, 16th Sept in The Graduate Centre
  
  
• Women in Games conference at University of Warwick, 10-12 Sept.
  Fiona French and Barbara Zambrini running The Pink Wink Workshop.

August 2008

• Dare Protoplay in Edinburgh - Team Orion showcase their game, Anagennesis.
  
  
  
  See photos here
  

June 2008

• Hide and Seek Festival at Southbank, 26-29th June
  http://www.hideandseekfest.co.uk/
  
  
• DIGI-MET 2008
  London Metropolitan University Department of Computing
  Games and Multimedia Graduate Show 3/4 June 2008
  http://www.digi-met.co.uk
  
  See photos here
  
  

May 2008

• Team Orion selected for Dare-to-be-Digital competition!
  Samson, Jan, Shane, Tolga and Amish are heading to Brighton next month to build a funky XBox game.
  
  
  
• Game08 at Imperial College, 21 May
  http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/game/

April 2008

• 24th April Games Grads 2008 - free seminars
  http://www.gamesgrads.co.uk/
  
  
• Guest Lecture: Nigel Canin from 2 Simple Software

March 2008

• Blitz Open Days - apply and submit work by 11 Jan 08
  http://www.blitzgames.com/openday/
  
  
• Play Live at Wembley - 15/16 March 2008
  http://www.play.com/campaign.aspx?campaign=4791&cid=6219706
  
  
• Free microsoft tools for students
  https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/

February 2008

• Nick Burton's Gamasutra article - How Rare Recruits Graduates
  http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17260
  
  
• Will Wright Video Games Awards BAFTA lecture available online
  http://www.bafta.org/awards/video-games/will-wright-video-games-lecture-in-2007,254,BA.html
  
  
• Guest Lecture: Dr Marco Gillies from UCL on "Virtual Reality and Games" - Monday 4 Feb
  2pm BR4-04, Thurs 7 Feb 2pm BEL-211
  
  
• Guest Lecture: Nick Burton from Rare talks about "Real Time Graphics for Games" and "The Past, Present and Future of Computer Games Development" - 28 Feb
  
  
• Guest Lecture: Judi Spiers, ex-THQ Production Manager, talks SCRUM and games industry opportunities - 14 Feb

November 2007

• CVG students do QA work (games testing) for THQ International - ongoing.
  " The students ... have been fantastic.  They are eager, enthusiastic and have given some great feedback ... I would really like to have them back ... " John Hopkin, THQ  

• Bloodspell, the Raise of the Machinima - register on Facebook:
  http://londonmu.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5728442327&ref=mf
  22 Nov at GC108 (New Graduate Centre) starting 17:15
  
  
• Microsoft Inspiration Tour at Stapleton House 15 Nov - register here.
  
  
• Louise Hussey - Producer at Rushes (www.rushes.co.uk), one of the UK's top animation and post production facilities, and some of her team will be coming to give a talk to animation students and show some work.
  Weds 14th Nov. 2:00pm in TH208
  
  
• Adobe Creative Suite Campus Tour
  Weds 7 Nov 2007, TH G03 and Refectory

October 2007

• London Games Festival 22 Oct - 2 Nov

• CVG Team runs mobile treasure hunt TXT 4 TREASURE as part of London Games Festival Fringe.
  http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/latest-news/london-met-at-the-london-games-festival.cfm

August 2007

• Dare to be Digital - CVG graduate Ross Darvill's team Lucid Dreams reaches final 6 at Edinburgh.

July 2007

• CVG showcase at Develop Expo, Brighton.
  
  
• Develop Conference, Brighton

June 2007

• Digital Escape - Graduate Show 2007. First cohort of graduates from BSc Computer Visualisation and Games, with BSc Multimedia and BSc Animation students.
  http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/latest-news/industry-scouts-talent-at-2007-digital-media-show.cfm

April 2007

• Gamesgrads 07