Early last year I was contacted and asked if I would give a seminar to a group of students doing an MSc course. Nothing happened at the time and then I met up with the guys running the course at GameStars in September. We were then able to organise something a little more concrete.
Today I gave that seminar and would like to offer a big thank you for the way that everyone made me feel so welcome.
I was so incredibly nervous before attending, but I’m a firm believer in looking to the future through education and the passing on of knowledge and experience. The subject was “Writing and Narrative in Game Design” and it went down very well, with an excellent discussion session afterwards. One of the lecturers attending was from another department and asked if I’d be interested in talking with his students also. So that was a real plus.
When I was having lunch with the leader of the course before the seminar, we were talking about the increase in games related courses. I suggested that no one seemed to be giving enough thought to the actual game design aspects. Surprisingly, he had been thinking the same thing and is looking to establish a course in the near future. For those of you thinking of taking a course in game design, Sheffield Hallam University may be the place to go in a couple of years.