BSc Computer Games at London Metropolitan University
News and Events
July 2012
Londonmet Games team ADRENALINE MONKEYS (Stephen, Joseph, Bruno and Fergus) at this year's Brains Eden GameJam at Anglia Ruskin from 30th June - 2nd July.
Faculty of Computing Summer Show in The Graduate Centre and Blue Met Lounge
Launch Party: 14th June / 5-8pm
Public Viewing: 15th June / 11-3pm PICTURES ON FLICKR
July 2011
Team taking part in Brains Eden 2011 GameJam
9th-11th July at Anglia Ruskin, Cambridgeshire.
June 2011
DIGITAL TOYBOX 2011
Faculty of Computing Summer Show in the Graduate Centre, Holloway Road.
Launch Party on Thurs 9th June 5-8pm,
public opening Fri 10th June 11-3pm.
See the photos here: www.flickr.com/thinkmakeplay
May 2011
Digital Shoreditch Festival
Games and art showreels from the games degrees on show to public and industry during this exciting week-long event.
April 2011
Kamran Sarkar's "Fly Baby Fly" ipad game launched on itunes. Download the game here > itunes store link
January 2011
Global Game Jam 2011
Ashley, Michael, Vlad, Jamie, Hua, Chris and
Kamran took part in this year's jam, developing "ESCAPE!" with UDK (Unreal Dev Kit).
June 2010
DIGITAL TOYBOX 2010 (see Facebook page)
Summer Show for students from Faculty of Computing
The Graduate Centre, Holloway Road: Launch Party Weds 9th June 2010, 5-9pm
January 2010
London Global Gamejam 2010, at Quantm College
Jamie Hamilton and Yanhua Ou take part, producing "Body Warfare".
You are a virus trying to infect red blood cells while avoiding b-cells and antibodies. You control the virus by moving the mouse to navigate the level. You must infect/absorb red blood cells while avoiding antibodies who will slow you down. During this you will be hunted relentlessly by b-cells. Are you quick enough? Link to the game (download)
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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