Just started at huddersfield doing computer games programming

and

MAN

 

does this go WAY way over my head haha

Final year at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, UK.

Studying BSc(Hons) Software Engineering and currently on 12 months work placement, hence all the free time to read these forums ;)

I'm studying journalism at a public college called UFAM (I'm from Brazil). Of course I'll get out of this course and do something related to programming.

I've just started at Staffordshire Uni, UK on a Computer Science: Computer Security degree. Although most my flatmates do games development/design degrees and I'm a keen gamer / programmer myself.

Cant wait to get visual c# express dloaded and start playing with some XNA. Just had a MS inspire seminar, and it looks fantastic

- James

I'm studying Computer Science at the Tehnical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania.
But all things gamedev-related I do on my own.

I still have two years to go, and after that I hope I'll somehow get a chance to do game development. Unfortunately, there aren't any  game development companies around. (There's Ubisoft and EA in the capital, but it's not a place I want to live in). I just hope rumors are true and Ubisoft will make a team in my city also.

Catalin Zima:

I still have two years to go, and after that I hope I'll somehow get a chance to do game development. Unfortunately, there aren't any  game development companies around. (There's Ubisoft and EA in the capital, but it's not a place I want to live in). I just hope rumors are true and Ubisoft will make a team in my city also.

Or you could create a flippin-sweet XNA engine that everyone wants and make a career out of it....then you wouldn't have to move anywhere.

still in junior college, not in Uni yet though I started programming since 10, should be going to Carnegie Mellon's ETC in couple of years. Currently creating my first major game development to jump start my game studio and continue developments while in uni.

Lord Ikon:

Catalin Zima:

I still have two years to go, and after that I hope I'll somehow get a chance to do game development. Unfortunately, there aren't any  game development companies around. (There's Ubisoft and EA in the capital, but it's not a place I want to live in). I just hope rumors are true and Ubisoft will make a team in my city also.

Or you could create a flippin-sweet XNA engine that everyone wants and make a career out of it....then you wouldn't have to move anywhere.

That's kinda my plan for now :) Creating a good great XNA game and get it published on XBLA. Then use that as a jumpstart for my own gamedev company.

Very cool, I go to Wentworth right down the street. We should make a game or something. You do the art, I (attempt to) code something up. :)

I'm studying in the Netherlands at the Academy for ICT and Media they provide a very wide range of options to study about. All directions involve programming and one of them is Multimedie Technologie where Games Design falls under. That's my current direction, and I'm in the last year. The last period I was working on an XNA and an MOgre project. Next period I will be going deeper into XNA and after that I will take an Intership at a local dutch Games Studio. I haven't decided yet what direction I want to go with Games Development but I really liked working with XNA and would love to do something more with the Xbox360! Hopefully I could get a job at a nice Game Studio in the Netherlands but I'm affraid I have to migrate to travel further into Games Development!

Greetings,

Alexander van der Kolk

I am doing my Master's in Computer Science at Columbia University, NY. The Graphics & User Interface Lab here mereges XNA with Augmented Reality. I am one of the students working in this lab.

Hope to develop a cool XNA game and get it published. Going by the posts I have a hell lot of competition ;-)

Did my work at Community College (I'm poor... YEY!)... Didn't like college at all. I went through all of Physics, Calculus and Diffy Q and learned zilch, naughta, nothing. I just slept through class, took my 4.0 and said "eh bugger off, this ain't for me".

It was just my professors regurgitating stuff I had already taught myself years prior. So I stopped going and decided to continue training myself in what ever I want to learn (hey, all it is is a shiny piece of paper... meh). Instead I study at home all the time, I'm always researching stuff, picking up books on this and that. My friend Adny and I absorb everything. As he says, "I want to learn how to make everything, you want to learn how everything is made".

Anyways I like the 'artist life' really, the kind where my friends and I just sit around and start up projects and endeavors that interest, hope for the best, if it fails then meh, move on to something else... like painting, sculpture, oh and as soon as I build a work space we are going to do 3D stained glass sculptures.

That is how I got into game design actually. A couple of my friends went to college for 3D Art design... one of which had been learning a lot of it since childhood... and guess what! He says the same as me, "In my 4 years at school I learned 1 thing". That one thing was some stupid hotkey short cut in 3D Studio Max.

One great side to the school though is you meet lots of people to start up projects with.

Anyways, we hooked up, started a tiny indie studio of halfwit morons who don't know what the HECK their doing. And hope to put our minds into high gear and pump some sick stuff out. I know we've got the vision... it all comes down to if we have the skill to do something.

Oh and we need a programmer... heh. ME! ugh, I never programmed in my life before this. But hey, like I said, I like to teach myself.

Here's a preview of one of the 2 projects we are working on right now (I like 2 at a time, that way if I get bored or bummed because I'm not getting somewhere, I can switch over to the other and have something to do).

video clip of some junk I don't know how to do

yeah, I'm new to programming so I didn't build my own engine. I basically use another engine only for basic physics (collision and the sort), pipeline simplifying and actual 3D drawing. I do design all the logics, gravity, orbits (in the case of this video the gravity is between the planets and asteroids that are being shot) and other ***.

After this project I hope to work on my own engine.

studying computer sciences right now in Rostock, Germany... 2nd year now.