#Games Info 2014
- School Overview
- BSc and MCOMP courses (new for 2015) 1. Computer Games Development 1. Multimedia Computing 1. Software Engineering 1. Computer Science 1. Computer Studies 1. Computer Forensics 1. Computer Security
- MSc courses 1. Advanced Computer Studies 1. Computer Forensics 1. Computer Network Security 1. Computer Science 1. Computing and Information Systems 1. Online Computing 1. Software Engineering
- Intake around 350 students per year
- Around 45 academic staff, 50 PhD researchers, 8 technical/admin
- Computer Games Technology
- Intake around 50 students per year
- Industrial placement year in industry
- Focus on games software development (rather than art/design)
- Includes computer programming, applied maths, computer graphics
- Development of online students portfolio
- Enthusiastic and game-focussed staff 1. Professor in Entertainment Computing, Prof. Abdennour El-Rhalibi 1. Seven specialist games lecturers (Sud, Chris, Stephen, Martin, Mike, David)
- Collaborations
- BBC Research & Development
- Onteca Ltd.
- Lucid Games
- Zhejiang University, China
- Gaming Equipment
- Consoles (4 PS4s, PS3s, Xbox 360s)
- Kinect-enabled PCs
- Oculus Rift headsets
- Six PhD Students working in games
- David Tully – Framework for the Visualisation of Crisis Management
- Goudoulakis Stathis – Framework for the Planning MAS in DIS
- Faisal Alshreed – Framework for Negotiations in Cloud Computing using MAS
- Sarmad Abdulazeez – Dynamic Load Balancing for MMOGS using Hybrid P2P Architecture
- Ricardo Duarte – Framework for Facial Animation and Co-articulation
- Curtis Maines – Extension of Secure BPMN to Support Security Feedback and 3D Visualisation
- Pisit Praiwattana – PCG for Crisis Scenario Generation
- Other research areas of the school
- Games
- Networking
- Security
- Applied Computing
- MAGIC Games Group
- Multimedia, Animation, Games, Interactive, Creators
- Newly started, directed by students
- Student-driven software development
- Currently 30+ students involved
- Liverpool Biennial
- Virtual Tour: http://cmpproj.cms.livjm.ac.uk/virtualtour/
- Homura: http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homura/index.php
- Gesture Programming or maybe Games Jam.
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- Links and summary slide