Discover the range of experiences, industry links, placements, and activities offered via our degree programmes, from Cyber Security to Games Design.
With supervision from lecturers, use our industry-standard facilities to gain practical experience in a workshop, tour our campus, and chat to our students about university life.
Computing subjects available to experience include cyber security and programming languages, and our outreach officer can also give a presentation, if requested, on why students may want to consider studying a computing or gaming course at HE level and a sesson on Alternative Digital Careers.
Other sessions may be available on request and programmes can be customised to include sessions most relevant to students and timings modified to be a full day or half day.
Available gaming subject tasters are as follows:
- Developing Shaders in Unity
A 2–3-hour workshop exploring the purpose of shaders in games, then learning how to develop colourful and creative shaders in the game engine Unity. The site would need to take place in a computer lab, and Unity would need to be pre-installed on the computers. Feel free to contact us for help getting set up.
- Introduction to Scripting in Unity
A 2-hour workshop creating scripts with C# for a Unity game. Suitable for anyone interested in Games Development or Games Programming. The site would need to take place in a computer lab, and Unity would need to be pre-installed on the computers. Feel free to contact us for help getting set up.
- Unity Terrain Editor - Games Art & Design students.
A 90-minute workshop using the Unity Terrain Editor. The Terrain Editor enables developers to create detailed and realistic terrains. Within this session, students will learn how to create and customize a terrain using specific tools and techniques, ranging from shaping the landscape, adding trees, and using brushes to enhance your terrain with additional details. By the end of the workshop, students will have a good understanding of how powerful and versatile the Terrain Editor can be, and how easy it is to create customised terrains for your projects. The workshop would need to take place in a computer lab, and Unity would need to be pre-installed on the computers.
- Games Art & Design Students
Choose either a drawing workshop or learn how to use a Zbrush with our senior lecturer in Advertising, Art, and Design.