The games industry need more designers and artists. We are seeing growth in smaller independent teams that are agile and able to develop innovative games across numerous platforms. Technology such as Unity, Steam, Unreal and the app stores have unlocked the ability for anyone to make and distribute a digital product or game. Games are broadening their application in areas such as serious games, mobile and VR for a growing sophisticated audience.

The course at Winchester School of Art, part of the world-renowned University of Southampton, aims to create game designers and artists that provide experiences through…

Back in November (2017) Games Design & Art students worked with IBM and their speech to text system Watson to develop a game build on this technology. The project was supported and run by IBM, and formed part of the JAM weeks we run in year 2, IBM hired two of our own recent Graduates Jess Castle and Millie Ng to support the Jam and tutor the student group.

Tuesday 13th November

Today marked the start of the IBM games jam where a great mix of second year Games Design and Art students and a third year student from Graphic…

We are now a few weeks into the final semester for Year 3. They completed the first phase of this mammoth year handing in at the end of Jan an extensive portfolio of research culminating in a game project proposal for semester 2.

Through a series of research exercises, collaborative workshops and presentations each student has dug around for a passion and become mini experts in a whole host of topic such sea creatures, maritime history, egyptians, space, deforestation, music therapy, ethical hacking and more before whittling down, expanding ideas and spinning these pieces of insight into a myriad of…

We are now nearing the completion of our first semester with our new 2nd year cohort. It has been an exciting time and there has been a definite buzz in our studios with game ideas and pitches being shared and discussed on a daily basis. For many of our students this module (ARTD 2084, Games Design) will have been the first time that they have been given a free rein on making games designs in any subject of their choosing. For some this has been a liberating experience. …

Games Design & Art have a host of events coming up in 2018.

Following is a list of events throughout this year from BA (Hons) Games Design & Art students. Please save the dates, all welcome and please do bring friends too. Our events are all about you the player and although you dont need to be a gamer many are user testing sessions, so come prepared to interact with the games and the gamemakers, however we try and make it feel a little like a party and this normally means include nibbles and drinks are freely on hand to…

We are now almost at the end of Semester 1, but it has been a very busy time to our students! This year, our first-year students had the opportunity to undertake their first project using the Barbican location as an inspiration.

In our Games Design programme at Winchester School of Art we structured our briefs inspired by the Double Diamond strategy. Students start understanding concepts and ideas, followed by definition, exploration and then building/making designs and game concepts/ideas.

Researching

For the Barbican Project, we started looking at four aspects of research and visual analysis: collect, research, investigate and brainstorm. We…

I have recorded a series of podcasts with the final year games design & art students at Winchester School of Art to allow them to tell you briefly about their projects and how you can keep up with all the news on each them. Please subscribe http://dctr.pro/podcast to the inkubator podcast using you favourite podcatcher (I recommend Marco Arment’s Overcast https://overcast.fm/)

In episode seven of seven. I talk to Cameron and Ollie about their app that is designed to help educate children about the eco systems the earth is made up of and introduces the concepts around trophic cascades via data gathered from Yellow Stone National Park.

I have recorded a series of podcasts with the final year games design & art students at Winchester School of Art to allow them to tell you briefly about their projects and how you can keep up with all the news on each them. Please subscribe http://dctr.pro/podcast to the inkubator podcast using you favourite podcatcher (I recommend Marco Arment’s Overcast https://overcast.fm/)

In episode six of seven. I talk to Kathryn about her 3d space escape game. Bringing together 1970’s sci-fi comics, gothic and folk themes together in a unique sci-fi adventure game.