Creative Computing @ Coleraine

New website

darrylkc — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:10:00 +0000

In an attempt to consolidate several blogs – this blog has now moved to play2learn2play.com. This is Dr Darryl Charles website who is the course leader for game development degrees on the Coleraine campus of the University of Ulster, and is also the leader of the local games research group. On play2learn2play.com he posts information on game development/research that is relevant to him and Computing @ Coleraine.

Microsoft’s Imagine Cup XNA competition

darrylkc — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:16:38 +0000

Just a reminder to our students who learning XBox 360 development that this year’s Imagine Cup has an XNA game development section.

http://imaginecup.com/Competition/mycompetitionportal.aspx?competitionId=12

Games Events for Schools announced

darrylkc — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:04:33 +0000

We have two exciting events for schools this year.

Our traditional annual games fair and competition.
An introductory Xbox 360 game development workshop.

Both events are free and open to school and college students of age 16+. Preferably attendees will have some experience programming at school or as a hobby.

See attachment for more details.

Poster

Open Day at UUC

darrylkc — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:47:07 +0000

David Gibson and Chris Hanna were on hand to help out with open day yesterday. David demonstrated the Imagine Cup software and Chris showed his Xbox 360 Arcade Live style game to interested students. Chris received the highest marks for his final year project on the Computing degree at UUC last year. His project demonstrated dynamic learning techniques for computer game agents.

Photos of open day may be found here: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/computingcoleraine

Imagine Cup 2008 Theme

darrylkc — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:01:44 +0000

Last year a C3 team from UUC obtained 2nd place in the Imagine Cup:

and we will be looking for enthusiastic students to participate in next year’s competition on the theme of “The Sustainable Environment”.

Contact Dr Darryl Charles or Dr Michaela Black for further details.

Information on last year’s successful team can be found here.

Welcome to the C3 Blog

darrylkc — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:49:03 +0000

This site is jointly updated by students and staff to highlight activities of the C3 society and it may also include reviews and commentary.

We will begin by importing some of the key stories from the previous site.