Where Would You Think

Some of the students at the end of the 24 Hours

We had our March Three Thing Game development last weekend. We had over 100 students sign up to take part, with 33 teams competing to make the best game in a week. This culminates in a 24 hour development session in the department that this time corresponded with Platform Expo, a digital media event that took place on the university campus. This competition was even more interesting as we had Stuart Lovegrove from Sony Computer Entertainment who was here to help with the judging. We also had students using the PS Suite tool to make games that might one day run on the new PS Vita.

A great time was had by all. The winners were truly worthy and the standard of games was even higher than the last event. You can find out all about how it turned out, and find pictures and videos of all the teams that book part, at www.threethinggame.com

Open Days are here again. This is some of the audience who sat through my talk this afternoon. Hope you all had a good time and thanks for braving the elements to come and see what we do at Hull. We are holding more Open days in the next few weeks.

This is Warren handing out a copy of a great book (Oh Yes) to the winner of the prize draw at the end. Those that came along also took home a printed copy of the C# Yellow Book. If you want to find out more about that, and perhaps download other coloured books, you can find them at www.csharpcourse.com

Rob Miles

These are some of the games and applications that students and staff at Hull have made over the last few months. Some of them are implementations of games produced at Three Thing Game and Evil Squash.

There are now Evil Squash games in Windows Phone Marketplace. For those that haven’t heard of the game of Evil Squash; it is a kind of cross between Snakes and Ladders and Ludo. We invented it just for our first year programming practical work. And now some enterprising students have got versions running in the Windows Phone marketplace.

We had our Christmas Bash today. A bit near the end of the semester so it was a fairly select gathering, but fun none the less.  We did the usual Team Fortress 2 and Pizza

After 3 hours of solid effort Simon found all of the 78 words in the “Three Thing Game” Christmas Wordsearch. We had to give him a prize, but only after we’d checked the age rating of it.

Double barrelled cracker action. There are some more pictures on Flickr.You can find them here.