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Local college students get a taster of computer game design
A masterclass day was held for around 50 students from Grimsby’s Franklin College, North Lindsey College and Lincoln College to give them an insight into what it would be like to study computing, science or maths at University. The day was a great success, with Lincoln College especially happy with the sessions that fitted nicely…
Lincoln researchers develop disabled-friendly interactive games
University of Lincoln researchers have been working on interactive games to be more disabled-friendly. School of Computer Science lecturer Dr Kathrin Gerling and Dr Adam Evans from Health Advancement Research Team (HART) have been creating computer games that allow young people with disabilities to use powered technology to interact on screen. Dr Kathrin Gerling and Dr Adam Evans from Health Advancement…
Tweetathon to mark Robin Hood Day
This Saturday (17th October) an international tweetathon is going to ‘fire an arrow round the world’ to celebrate International Robin Hood Day and you can get involved. How you ask? Computer Science graduate Sean Oxspring has been working alongside Hitpoint Games to create an innovative game via Twitter that will aim to shoot Robin Hood’s arrow…
Graduate research to feature at world-leading games computing conference
Research by two graduates from the University of Lincoln, UK, will be discussed at the world’s leading conference on entertainment computing. Sean Oxspring and Nick Bull, who both graduated with a BSc in Games Computing in September 2013, have had academic papers accepted to ACE 2013 – the 10th international conference on Advances in Computer…
Jobs at Rockstar Lincoln
Rockstar Lincoln are looking for guys and girls who love games and want to break in to the industry! They do not need any previous experience, just a massive passion for games, a love of the industry, an incredible level of resilience and toughness, a great sense of humour, rock-solid thumbs and most of all…
Showcasing Event for Undergraduate projects. A Successful Event that is coming to be Annual…
Friday, 27th April 2012, marked the end of the Showcasing week for the Undergraduate Projects work, with an Interactive demos sessions. Students, Staff and Visitors gathered in Comp Lab ‘B’ in the School of Computer Science, where the event was officially opened by the Head of the School, Dr David Cobham. Local companies, like Rockstar Games…
ASCII Challenge 2011/12
First year Games Computing and Computer Games Production students finished their 60 second ASCII game challenge yesterday. The submissions were very impressive with many drawing on a retro theme to complement the ASCII look. The games were all developed using GameMaker Lite and were completed after around 5 weeks of work. We think that focussed,…