Dundee computer games

Future cities will need to utilise more sustainable methods of water and wastewater management and renewable energy production.

Develop a range of skills, knowledge and techniques within the natural, technological and social sciences relevant to the study of environmental sustainability and life in the twenty-first century. Understand the critical issues that confront humanity and begin to discern appropriate responses. Energy Production and Food Production in Tayside. How lifestyle can effect physical and mental well-being. Reflect on your own lifestyle choices and how to incorporate good health behaviours into your life.

Develop critical thinking skills that form the basis for progression across the academic disciplines of the university. Learn how to recognise, construct, evaluate, criticise and defend different forms of argument. Learn to identify types of argument presented, evaluate perspectives and to reflect upon their own reasoning processes and value assumptions. The debates and seminars facilitate a foundation for the acquisition of graduate attributes.

These summaries will be constructed by each designated Thinking Group of three students using the Wiki facility on Blackboard which will facilitate further discussion on the moderated WEB CT discussion forum. The social, managerial, economic, political, and technical challenges and opportunities associated with emerging renewable energy innovation, production, supply and consumption.

Economic and environmental challenges of renewable energy production supply and consumption. Strategic and managerial challenges of renewable energy production supply and consumption. Forces on structures; Appreciation of the various forces acting on marine structures. Technical limitations and challenges of energy distribution systems and energy storage. Current technological development trend, collaborative innovation in renewable energy. An understanding of the concepts of tolerance, and the importance of making sound ethical decisions.

Develop the qualities, characteristics and skills to meet the aspiration for Abertay graduates to become global and active citizens. Learn how to adjust language to suit context. Learn the base knowledge that will continue to be relevant to future generations of devices.

How the bad guys can obtain your password. What your browser knows about you. Web browser forensics. Quantum Cryptography — Provably unbreakable information hiding.

Mathematical Underpinnings — Large prime numbers and why they matter. The Civil Liberties Arguments for and against strong-crypto. International perspectives on information hiding, information freedom, the right to privacy and the conflicts between these.

Develop perspectives on the key challenges faced by humankind such as environmental change, pollution, food security, energy provision, conflicts, terrorism, emerging diseases, and changing demographics. Understand the overwhelming complexity of the problems and the need for interdisciplinary approaches to create solutions. Design an activity to communicate and present scientific principles to primary school children.

Learn about working as a group and how to communicate complex ideas. Public engagement in Dundee and Tayside. Develop the knowledge and awareness required to make good career decisions and the skills and confidence to successfully navigate each stage of the recruitment process for graduate jobs. Learn about natural disaster such as landslides and flooding, structural disasters such as the Tay Rail Bridge and the system of critical infrastructure such as road, rail, air and shipping transport networks, power grid, gas and water networks, health system that constitute the backbone of modern societies.

Interdependencies of critical infrastructures during large disasters, presents a brief review of current research being done in this field, and presents a methodology to address interdependencies. The identification of the vulnerabilities of these systems threats that might exploit these vulnerabilities.

The effort to develop techniques to mitigate these vulnerabilities through improved design. Resources will include historical examples, current policies and information including SEPA flood maps. Introduction to the skills and knowledge needed to launch a small business successfully. An understanding of some of the processes involved in food production.

Discuss common misconceptions and ideas which present the food and nutritional industries in a bad light. Understanding consumer and sensory science to better understand why you buy the products you buy. Fat or sugar: Which is worse? Learn how we approach and understand mental health, from historic, social, therapeutic, and individual perspectives. An introduction to the wide range of disciplines in forensic investigation. Learn how crimes are investigated from the moment of reporting through to the presentation of the evidence in court.

A hypothetical case study provides an over-arching framework in which to explore the critical aspects of forensic investigations. It involves not only physical and electronic evidence, but also statements from witnesses, suspects and victims which requires cross discipline collaboration of professionals.

Build on your knowledge of programming taught in earlier modules e. Gain an introduction to the standard data structures and algorithms that form the core of algorithmic thought in computer science and to the idea of reasoning about the behaviour and performance of a computer program.

Introduction to the principles of 3D graphics programming. Learn to design and develop real-time 3D graphics applications. Build on the earlier module, Data Structures and Algorithms 1. Gain an introduction to parallel programming on shared-memory and GPU architectures, and the design techniques underpinning parallel applications using a range of case studies drawn from typical real-world applications. Introduction to the necessary components to develop a 3D physics-based game application considering the console hardware.

How lifestyle can affect physical and mental well-being. Understand the computer graphics programmable pipeline and various graphics techniques. Develop and evaluate techniques used to manipulate 3D graphics in real-time.

The principles of computer networks as they are applied to the development of various types of networked computer games. Develop and evaluate techniques of implementation with a particular emphasis on real-time fast action games.

Work together on an interactive media project as part of a multidisciplinary team. Contribute to your team by taking on a professional role suited to your area of study. Expect to: communicate with clients and relevant stakeholders; participate in pitching and presentations; research and test technical pipelines; create project documentation and planning materials; and contribute to the iterative design and development of a final interactive prototype.

A more advanced study of mathematical methods and models relevant to the degree programme that builds on the earlier module, Applied Mathematics 1. Learn about some of the many Artificial Intelligence AI techniques currently in use, or that could be in the near future.

Understand the various techniques used to generate procedural content in games, tools and common media editing packages to a cutting-edge standard.

Learn more about further games, graphics and general programming techniques and practices. Undertake the practical and development work for a major, in-depth individual project in an aspect of your programme. Devise the idea for the project and proof of concept to support the specification of a well-researched project proposal document. Carry out and complete the main development work for the project in Term 2. Emerging technology trends used in computer games development.

Develop and apply techniques using existing technologies to explore these trends. Present as a dissertation, a major, in-depth individual project in an aspect of your programme. Undertake the work and present it in a structured and coherent manner which allows for critical and insightful review and evaluation. Write the dissertation in academic style appropriate to your domain of study.

Develop knowledge and understanding of techniques used to create animation in computer graphics suitable for real-time applications. Further develop technical skills used to create animation systems across 2D and 3D computer graphics applications.

Lectures are used to present key concepts, theories and techniques. Tutorials and laboratory-based activities increase your understanding of the subject, allowing you to put the taught theory into practice, and develop your competence and confidence in technological and theoretical work.

Most modules are assessed through coursework, which may include project work and student-led presentations. Some modules use a mixture of coursework and formal examination. Please visit our Entry from College pages for suitable College courses. Republic of Ireland applicants, click on the UK tabs and scroll down to find your Entry Requirements. See information about studying and applying to Abertay for International students. We accept a wide range of qualifications from applicants from across the world.

Please select your country from the searchable list below to view different qualification entry requirements. If you have different qualifications to those listed, please contact us using the form below. Applicants will typically be required to pass the International Baccalaureate IB Diploma with an overall score of 30 points, to include any essential subject s at S5 or H4. English language: English B at S5 or H4 is accepted. For English A, no grade is specified.

For alternative English language qualifications, please see below. English language: English Language 1 at grade 6 or English Language 2 at grade 7 are accepted. Applicants will typically be required to pass the Araratian Baccalaureate at Extended Level with grades BBB, to include any essential subjects.

Applicants will typically be required to pass the Certificate of General Secondary Education at an average of 6, and the first year of a university degree in a relevant subject with an average grade of 7. Applicants will typically be required to pass the General Certificate of Secondary Education at an average of 4.

Applicants will typically be required to pass Brunei A Levels in 3 subjects at grades BBC, to include any essential subject s. Applicants will typically be required to pass the Diploma za Sredno Obrazonvanie with an average score of 5. Applicants will typically be required to pass the Baccalaureat or Baccalaureat Technique at an overall grade of 14, to include any essential subject s at grade Some of our own websites to provide more information about Domain Holdings.

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The player takes the role of a commander of one of three interplanetary houses, the Atreides , the Harkonnen or the Ordos , with the goal of gaining control of Arrakis from the two other houses. The basic strategy in the game is to collect spice with harvesters from sand dunes, have it brought back and refined for credits, and to build and purchase military combat units with credits in order to fend off and ultimately destroy the enemy.

In addition to enemy incursions, the player must also deal with periodic appearances of the sandworm , capable of swallowing vehicles and infantry whole, as well as harsh weather conditions that can deteriorate the structures of the player's base. If enough damage is dealt to a worm half of the visible health , it will simply disappear. The story, told with animations and subtitles in the original Dune II , is now told with full motion video starring actors such as John Rhys-Davies.

The game was criticized by some for not adding enough fresh content, and for an inferior interface compared to its competitors — most notably Total Annihilation. The storyline, though, improved markedly, as did the triggers in-game with excellent twists to the gameplay. The game also tidied its graphics to incorporate bit graphics as well as incorporating a later patch with new units for multiplay. Despite all these enhancements, the game suffered from poor AI behaviour as well as poor waypointing which has quickly become crucial in fast online multiplayer games.

Features of note are the fairly non-linear campaign, featuring randomized events, and the fast pace relative to the earlier Dune games. The three Houses also featured new units in their ranks, with new abilities. Criticisms of the game are not as much as that of its predecessor, Dune , but it still suffered from poor AI with the computer controlled player attacking the human player with a similar strategy that can be predicted and thereafter countered effectively.

Further, the game's bad AI includes a lack of combining units of different abilities as the missions cannot be won by building only a particular type of combat unit. Like Dune , the game featured all new full-motion video cutscenes, somewhat based more on the original movie. In eventual reaction to the decline of industrial Dundee, locals turned to what had then become Abertay University with a suggestion: start a department for the study and teaching of computer games, complementing the established computer science department.

It must have been a leap of faith, taken by academics and administrators who were personally removed from the dubious lure of video games, and the teenagers whose waking hours were taken up playing them in back bedrooms. But this was what was called as far back as an "industrial university"; with a purpose founded on close links not just to established industries, but to developing ones.

Abertay found political and financial backing to establish the new department, offering the first computer games degree in the world in There are now a clutch of related degrees, including games design and production management, and an intriguing BSc course called ethical hacking. After Lemmings in it released the first edition of the controversial game Grand Theft Auto in It sold in the millions, and new versions continue to top the games ratings.

Trained games makers are in demand in the games industry worldwide. But like David Jones and Chris van der Kuyl a significant number of them stay on in the area, creating games and building new companies with teams they met while studying. Like the movie business, the games industry is project-driven: you're as good as your last game or your next one. A game may take a team a year or 15 months to deliver, sometimes much longer if it is really elaborate or modified for many platforms.

The business model is not yet a settled one; the notable Scottish games makers have learnt how to adapt. In the early days of the industry, publishers had the power, and financed games they often bought from small games inventers.

But social networks and broadband now make it possible at least in theory for small start-up games makers to reach a global marketplace directly.

And if that is too risky, there is still plenty of work for teams to work for large games companies as part of a much bigger project. That's a good way to get revenue flowing into a start-up game business without risking months of work developing a game on spec.

Some games earn billions on release, just like a Hollywood blockbuster.