The School of Science and Technology and the School of the Arts have collaborated to produce three new games courses.
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BSc (Hons) Creative Games Development
- · BSc (Hons) Computer Games Development
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HND Computer Games Development
The programmes are due to commence in September 2012.
BSc (Hons)/HND Computer Games Development
The programme is designed to meet the need for the computing professional and thus has a high degree of vocational relevance.
It aims:
- To provide an up to date programme in the field of computer games development; relevant and responsive to the needs of industry and commerce;
- To develop the student’s interpersonal and problem solving skills, together with the ability to undertake sustained academic activity both independently and in groups;
- To inform students of current best practice within the institution's developing computer games development field and give an appreciation of likely future developments
- Understand the requirements of appropriate computer games development professional institutions and the importance of continuing professional development.
- To provide an in-depth knowledge of software and hardware aspects involved in contemporary computer systems engineering;
- To equip students with skills and knowledge to enable them to embark on a range of careers, in the field of computer games development, or allied professions. Also to provide appropriate lifelong skills and the ability to cope with change.
Taken from: The University of Northampton lays down the foundations of a strategic partnership with the University of Babylon http://www.northampton.ac.uk/news/article/446/the-university-of-northampton-lays-down-the-foundations-of-a-strategic-partnership-with-the-university-of-babylon
The dissertation presents the project of integrating and analyzing of communication behaviors into a group of Lego robots, interacting with each other, with the help of wireless communication medium in Bluetooth. The purpose of the work is to create the ad-hoc network of Lego robots, by the use of this wireless technology, and introduce the elements of Behavior Based robotics. The fact that Mindstorms NXT systems (Lego robots) support Bluetooth enabled communication, means these systems can be used as a basis for creating complex, communicating artifact for introducing behaviors in them. The report has also focused on gathering the background information about the NXT system forming a good prototype of robots, and its great flexibility with LeJOS NXJ as programming platform. The result is implementation of developed work, using Lego Mindstorms NXT as robots, and LeJOS NXJ as programming environment. The task was approached with Lego robots fetching the information from environment, and other Lego robots as input; and processing this information to produce an output, to move in a purposive way in a group. It was noticed that implementation of several behaviors to single Lego based ad-hoc network had shortcomings, due to the complexities with the communication technology and limitations of the NXT systems. Thus, more than one Lego based ad-hoc network was implemented to demonstrate the combination of two or behaviors successfully.
